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Julie Shankly, BACP
- Credentials
- BACP
- Experience
- 21 years
- Practising in
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Sessions
- Online only
- Client ages
- Adults, 18 and over
Works with Stress, AnxietyRelationship issuesFamily conflictsIntimacy-related issuesDepression
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Julie Shankly is a counsellor practising in the United Kingdom with 21 years of professional experience. She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP, and offers a compassionate, down-to-earth approach. Julie focuses on making the first steps into therapy feel manageable and respectful of each person's situation.
Julie works with people facing stress and anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, and issues around relationships and intimacy. She also helps with grief, eating and sleeping concerns, ADHD, compassion fatigue and the emotional strain of caregiving.
Background and approach
Her wider focus includes body image, communication problems and coping with major life changes. Her style is adaptable and person-centred. Julie tailors conversations and plans to the individual rather than using a one-size-fits-all method.
She aims to listen without judgement and to build practical steps clients can use between sessions. Julie draws on client-centred approaches alongside cognitive behavioural techniques and psychodynamic ideas to understand patterns and change unhelpful thinking. She also uses solution-focused methods to set goals and hypnotherapy when it fits a client’s needs.
Sessions can be held via video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging for flexibility. International clients are accepted and Julie speaks English. To begin, clients follow the site process to be matched and then book sessions according to availability.
How Julie’s approaches work online
Julie often draws on client-centred therapy, which focuses on listening and building a trusting relationship. This approach helps people feel heard and shapes the work around their priorities.She also uses cognitive behavioural therapy, a practical method that looks at how thoughts and behaviours affect mood. CBT is useful for anxiety, low mood and unhelpful routines because it teaches clearer ways to respond to everyday problems.
Julie treats the choice of approach as a collaboration. She will discuss options, try different methods and agree steps that match a person's goals and preferences. Finding the right fit is part of the work together rather than a fixed decision from the start.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to attend sessions. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that feels important. Phone sessions can be convenient when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging suit people who prefer writing, want ongoing check-ins, or need quieter ways to communicate.
These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving or travel. Registered or accredited professionals can support progress through these methods while adapting techniques so they work well remotely.
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
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