Julia Dabney

Dip. Psychotherapy Counselling Practice

Julia’s focus is to create a space that’s safe for you to tackle your troubles and fears.

Julia is a friendly and supportive counsellor with many years of experience putting people at ease, helping them explore their reasons for seeking help. Her work is with adults, either short or longer term, at a pace that is comfortable for you - the client. Her priority is being by your side, ensuring you feel safe so that you can open-up and begin to understand your patterns of behaviour - things you might not easily see for yourself - and by doing this, helping you to learn new strategies for navigating life’s bumpy ride. 

Julia’s business career of 30 years, has been a great teacher, offering valuable insight into how stress and work-related pressure can impact our sense of well-being - not only at work, but beyond.  Her counselling training and practice has expanded my understanding of the emotional and psychological toll that life’s frustrations and disappointments can bring.

Whilst Julia works with many issues, across a whole range of areas, she has a particular connection with people suffering with cancer, the distress caused by fraud, and impact of the lack of meaning that retirement can visit upon some of us.

Life, and indeed love, can be brutal and can take a toll on us all at different stages but with kindness, and providing the time and space that is truly for you and you alone, the kind of support that counselling offers, can be a revelation, especially when there is a sense that our relationships, or even life itself, is getting beyond your control.

The balance between learning to feel what we truly feel and finding practical answers is where a counsellor can help someone make a real difference, to start to alleviate emotional distress, to help discover different ways of approaching problems that befall us all at times. There is no shame in needing outside help at such times, when we aren’t able to cope. Even when loved ones may be available to us, perhaps we are unable to share with them our difficult thoughts and fears.

The detachment and objectivity of a supportive counsellor, trained to help you through darker times, to maybe speak the unspeakable, is known to help people through distressing times, to help them feel ‘whole’ again, and perhaps even encourage some people on more towards their own version of ‘a life worth living’ or becoming comfortable in their own skin.

For many, reaching out, asking for help - with ‘life’ - is a daunting step to take, but equally, plenty who do manage to brave it, reap real rewards: in learning just how common such problems often tend to be and how we can bounce back from the tough periods in our life, and rediscover our ‘me’: it hasn’t gone … it just needed some support!