Julia Harvey

Julia Harvey is a counsellor with over 20 years' experience based in the United Kingdom. She supports people facing stress, anxiety, depression and anger, and helps those struggling with low energy, sleep problems, eating concerns and compassion fatigue. Julia invites clients to take the courageous first step and speaks plainly about practical change.

She uses a holistic approach that blends client-centred work with mindfulness practices. Sessions focus on what matters to the individual person and on practical steps they can try between meetings. Julia encourages clients to tune into their own sense of direction and to become active participants in their recovery.

Julia draws on long experience supporting people through grief, career challenges, relationship and intimacy-related worries, and life transitions. She also helps with issues linked to adoption and foster care, attachment, body image, chronic health problems and caregiving stress. Her work includes attention to ADHD, abandonment, family of origin concerns and other specific life strains.

Her method is conversational and down to earth. She aims to create an open setting for people to talk through difficult feelings without judgement. The counsellor offers coaching-style tools where useful, alongside therapeutic listening and guided mindfulness practices.

Julia is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. She has written about health and recovery and published a book describing her own journey with long-term illness and practical ways to rebalance health. This personal perspective informs her work with people facing persistent symptoms and life stress.

How client-centred and mindfulness work online

Julia uses client-centred principles that focus on the person's own priorities and experiences, making the client's voice central to each session. This approach helps when someone wants straightforward listening, emotional clarity or support making real-life changes.

Mindfulness therapy in Julia's work involves simple attention and breathing exercises plus gentle guidance to notice thoughts and feelings without judgement. These techniques can be helpful for anxiety, stress, sleep and anger by building practical ways to step back from intense reactions.

Finding the right approach is part of the process and Julia treats it as a collaboration. She will work with each person to test what methods feel most useful, adapting the balance between conversational, coaching and mindfulness elements to match the client's needs and goals.

Session formats are not specified in the supplied biography, so please confirm current session options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit counselling into a busy week, reduce travel time and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It can also allow people to use audio-only or quieter arrangements if that suits them better.