Julia Eduardo, BACP

Julia Eduardo offers calm, practical support for people facing stress, anxiety, addiction and life changes. She introduces straightforward ways to talk about painful experiences and to build coping skills. Julia communicates in English and Lingala and has ten years of counselling experience in the United Kingdom.

Julia draws on a broad counselling background to shape sessions around each person's needs. She trained in integrative counselling and holds BACP registration, which she combines with earlier work in health care. This mix gives her experience working with addiction, grief, trauma and long-term illness concerns such as cancer and hospice support.

Her work often focuses on emotional pain linked to relationship and intimacy issues, abandonment and attachment wounds, and problems with self-esteem, anger or guilt. She also helps people facing migration issues, hearing impairment, HIV and end-of-life concerns. Practical matters like hoarding, substance use and coping after disasters are also within her remit.

In sessions she uses a client-centred stance and draws on cognitive behavioural and dialectical techniques when helpful. She can also use emotionally focused and existential ideas to help people reflect on values, meaning and connection. The aim is to offer clear tools and conversational space so people can make decisions or move forward.

Julia has worked across criminal justice settings and with charities in several UK regions. She adapts her approach for each person, offering a mix of practical strategies and emotional exploration depending on what the individual needs.

Therapeutic approaches and online support

Julia works in a client-centred way that starts with the person, not a manual. Client-centred therapy focuses on listening and responding to what matters to the individual, helping them feel heard and decide what changes to make. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) looks at thoughts and behaviours and offers step-by-step techniques for managing anxiety, low mood and addictive patterns. Dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT) brings practical skills for managing intense emotions and improving distress tolerance, which can help with anger, relationship strain and self-control.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and what feels helpful, and then try approaches that match those needs. This is a collaborative process and adjustments are made as therapy progresses.

Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins and messaging can fit around shifts or childcare. These options make it easier to access therapy from different locations and at times that suit everyday life.