Julia Brooker, BACP

Julia Brooker is a BACP counsellor who draws on person-centred and cognitive approaches to help people feeling overwhelmed. She keeps sessions straightforward and practical so a worried parent can follow along. Julia's style is calm and grounded, and she focuses on helping people gain clarity and small steps forward.

She has 11 years of professional experience working in the United Kingdom and brings that background into each session. Julia listens for what matters most and helps people set clear, achievable goals. She uses simple CBT tools to notice unhelpful thoughts and patterns and finds ways to change them over time.

Julia also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy ideas to help people live by their values even when feelings are difficult. Attachment-based ideas are used to look at how early relationships shape current reactions and bonds. This mix helps with issues like anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, trauma, addictions and grief.

Sessions often focus on practical strategies for sleeping, coping with stress, managing anger, and handling life changes. Julia supports people dealing with relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting strain, career pressures, and compassion fatigue. She also works with neurodiversity and long-term health challenges when these affect daily life.

Her approach is collaborative and paced to the person. Julia helps people build confidence by practising new skills between sessions. The aim is clearer choices, steadier moods, and more manageable days.

Therapeutic approaches suited to online counselling

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult feelings without getting driven by them. It supports choosing actions that match personal values even when emotions are strong, which can help with anxiety, depression and life changes.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy looks at how thoughts, feelings and behaviours connect. It uses simple exercises to test unhelpful thoughts and build new routines, which is useful for sleep problems, low mood, stress and anxiety.

Attachment-Based Therapy examines how early relationship patterns shape current responses. It can clarify why certain relationship and intimacy issues keep repeating and help people try different ways of relating.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk through goals, preferences and what feels most helpful, then try methods together to see what fits. This is a collaborative process and can change as goals evolve.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people read facial cues and have a conversation similar to face-to-face. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier when movement or childcare limits sitting on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging suit shorter check-ins, reflection between sessions, or when a written record of thoughts helps reinforce learning.