Julie-Ann Huggins, BACP

Julie-Ann Huggins is a BACP counsellor with five years of experience offering online support. She creates a warm, interactive space where people can talk about difficult thoughts and feelings without judgement. Her approach aims to help clients find practical ways to feel better and to discover more meaning and purpose in daily life.

Julie-Ann frames her work around helping people understand how they affect their environment and relationships. She combines ideas from different therapies to build sessions that fit each person. That means conversations can be solution-focused one week and more reflective the next, depending on what is needed.

She helps people dealing with stress, anxiety and depression, and with relationship and intimacy-related issues. She also supports those facing grief, career questions, addiction concerns, eating or sleeping difficulties and the challenges that come with ADHD or bipolar mood changes.

Additional areas of focus include parenting pressures, blended family issues, abandonment and adoption or foster care matters. She also works with people coping with chronic illness, caregiver stress, body image and communication problems. Julie-Ann draws on methods from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Attachment-based work among others.

Sessions are offered using formats that suit modern life - video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. The pace and tools used in therapy are chosen together, so clients move at a speed that feels manageable.

Therapeutic approaches for online counselling

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It supports taking committed action towards values and can be helpful when stress, anxiety or life changes feel overwhelming.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy looks at patterns of thinking and behaviour and teaches practical skills to change them. It is often used for anxiety, depression, sleep or eating difficulties and for building coping strategies.

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early and close relationships shape responses to others. It can help when relationship patterns, intimacy problems or attachment issues cause ongoing distress.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Julie-Ann will explore your goals, preferences and what feels most helpful, and then adapt methods in collaboration with you. The plan can change as you make progress and as new needs emerge.

Online therapy makes these methods more accessible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and shared exercises, phone sessions can be a quicker check-in or suit low bandwidth, and live chat or text messaging can work for shorter daily check-ins or when typing feels easier. These options give flexibility to fit sessions around work, family and travel, while keeping the focus on practical progress.