Julia Garnham
Adaptable counsellor using attachment and CBT approaches
About Julia
Julia Garnham works with people facing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, depression and major life changes. She is a NCPS counsellor and has four years of practice supporting people through difficult times. The first few sessions focus on understanding what matters to the person and what they want to change.
Julia uses a mix of approaches and adapts them to each person. She draws on attachment-based ideas to look at relationship patterns, cognitive behavioural techniques to spot and shift unhelpful thinking, and mindfulness to build steady breathing and attention.
Background and approach
Hypnotherapy and psychodynamic ideas are used at times to access deeper memories or patterns that keep repeating. Sessions are conversational and practical. People can expect to talk through recent events and long-standing worries, practise specific ways to manage symptoms, and try short exercises in the session.
Creative tools like journaling or simple expressive tasks may be suggested when helpful. Her way of working aims to make change feel achievable in everyday life. Progress is tracked in small steps so people can see what helps and what needs adjusting.
Julia welcomes questions about her methods and explains options so decisions happen together. Julia offers work by telephone, video, live chat or text messaging. She accepts international clients and holds sessions from the United Kingdom.
To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and choose a time that suits them.
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Sessions & fees
Practical therapeutic approaches for online sessions
Julia commonly combines attachment-based work and cognitive behavioural therapy to help people find practical ways to feel steadier. Attachment-based work looks at how early and current relationships shape expectations and reactions, which can help with problems like anxiety, trust issues and repeated relationship patterns. Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and try small experiments to change feelings and behaviour. She also uses mindfulness techniques to build present-moment awareness and reduce overwhelm. Mindfulness involves short exercises in breathing and attention that can make strong feelings easier to handle and reduce reactivity in daily life. Together these approaches offer practical skills and insight, and the therapist will talk with each person to decide which fits best. Finding the right way of working is treated as a collaboration. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and what has worked before. Plans are adjusted over time so the approach can change if a different method seems more helpful. Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and exercises that use visual cues. Phone sessions can be useful when video is difficult or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and messaging suit shorter check-ins, ongoing written reflection or quieter days. These options aim to make therapy easier to fit into work, family life and different schedules.| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
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| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English
