Julia Woods, BACP
6 years in practice
Julia Woods is a counsellor who aims to help people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief or low self-esteem.
License and registration
- BACP
- 378687 · expires June 2026
- Years in practice
- 6
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the registration with the body that granted it.
About Julia
Julia Woods is a counsellor who aims to help people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief or low self-esteem. She speaks plainly and offers steady, practical support for people trying to make changes in their lives. Julia works from the belief that each person knows their own story and brings strengths that can be built on in therapy.
She draws on Emotionally-Focused Therapy to help people understand and work with strong emotions.
Background and approach
She also uses Attachment-Based and client-centred approaches to create sessions where the person feels heard and understood. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and mindfulness techniques are available when people want tools for managing thoughts, moods and behaviour. Julia has six years of professional experience and is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP.
Her background includes helping people facing trauma, relationship and intimacy concerns, addictions, sleep and eating issues, and the stresses of caregiving and illness. Sessions may address practical problems such as career stress or parenting strain, and deeper patterns such as attachment or abandonment worries. She also supports people dealing with chronic pain, body image, and identity questions, including LGBT matters.
Work in sessions is conversational and task-oriented when useful. People can expect to talk through what matters most, try simple exercises between sessions, and check progress together. The aim is to find approaches that fit each person’s needs and day-to-day life.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Julia lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Julia names
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
How Julia’s approaches work online
Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people recognise and sit with strong feelings, then link those emotions to the needs and patterns that drive relationships and behaviour. It can be useful for anyone struggling with intense emotions, attachment worries or repeating patterns that cause pain.Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early bonds and current relationships shape reactions today. It helps people notice patterns of closeness and distance, and develop healthier ways of relating to themselves and others.
Choosing an approach is a team effort. Julia will discuss what matters to you, try out methods in sessions and adjust the plan together over time. The emphasis is on finding what actually helps your day-to-day life rather than fitting a theory.
Online work makes it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls let you read facial expression and tone, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be simpler to arrange, while live chat and text messaging are useful for short check-ins or when writing feels easier. These options offer flexibility for people juggling work, caregiving or long distances, and allow the counsellor to use emotion-focused and attachment-based techniques across different formats.
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Questions people ask
What kinds of problems can be brought to therapy here?
Julia supports people with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, low self-esteem and depression, plus relationship, intimacy and addiction concerns among many others.
What is the therapist's style in sessions?
Sessions are mainly conversational and client-centred, with practical strategies from CBT and mindfulness added when helpful. The work aims to balance emotional understanding with tools you can use day to day.
How long has this counsellor practised?
She has six years of professional experience working with a wide range of concerns, including caregiving stress, chronic illness and body image issues.
Where is the counsellor based and what accreditation is held?
Julia is based in the United Kingdom and is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP.
Can I work with this counsellor in languages other than English?
Sessions are offered in English and Julia accepts international clients.
Which session formats are available?
Appointments can take place via video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different schedules and needs.
How does payment and cost work for sessions?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
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