About Julia
Julia Wilkinson is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who focuses on helping people facing stress, anxiety, depression and addiction. She works with clients experiencing compassion fatigue, grief, intimacy struggles and challenges such as sleeping or eating difficulties. Julia uses a calm, straightforward style to help people feel heard and to find practical ways forward.
She draws on somatic ideas to help people notice how stress shows up in the body and to use bodily awareness alongside talking.
Background and approach
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) features in her work to help people clarify values and take small steps towards a meaningful life. Attachment-based ideas also inform how she explores patterns in relationships and emotional connections. Julia takes a client-centred approach, so conversations are shaped around each person’s needs and pace.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) techniques are used when useful to identify thinking patterns and try different behaviours. Sessions are collaborative and aim to build skills people can use between appointments. She has seven years of professional experience and holds BACP registration.
Julia supports people dealing with a wide range of issues including ADHD, bipolar challenges, anger, low self-esteem and major life transitions. Her background also covers concerns linked to adoption and foster care, ageing, chronic illness and caregiving stress. Sessions are offered in English and can suit those looking for practical, down-to-earth help.
The work tends to focus on small, achievable changes that reduce daily strain and improve coping over time.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Somatic-informed work pays attention to how stress and emotion show up in the body. In online sessions this can mean guiding simple breath or movement awareness, noticing tension, and linking physical sensations to feelings and thoughts. It can help with anxiety, trauma responses and chronic stress.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying what matters to a person and taking small committed steps towards those values. Online ACT work uses mindful exercises and practical tasks between sessions to build a more value-led life and reduce avoidance of difficult feelings.
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in close relationships and how early connection shapes current reactions. Online conversations can gently map those patterns and try new ways of relating, which may reduce repeated conflict or emotional distance.
Finding the right approach is part of the therapy process. The therapist will work collaboratively to identify which methods fit the client’s needs, goals and preferences, and will adapt techniques as the work progresses.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging. These formats make it easier to fit sessions around work, family and health commitments, and allow people to continue therapy from home or while travelling. Many clients find a mix of real-time talks and text-based check-ins helps maintain momentum between appointments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English