Julia Eduardo, BACP

Julia Eduardo is an integrative counsellor with ten years of practice supporting people through addiction, trauma, relationship difficulties and a wide range of emotional challenges. She began her training with a Diploma in counselling skills and continued to complete a degree in Integrative Counselling, training that enables her to draw on multiple therapeutic methods to suit each person’s needs. Her early work focused on drug and alcohol use and misuse, and she has experience working with both children and adults in those settings.

Julia currently works within the criminal justice system and offers person-centred and solution-focused therapy for issues such as depression, anxiety, PTSD, OCD and relational problems. As a neurodivergent practitioner, she values flexible and detailed ways of working, adapting interventions and structure to match clients who need focused or bespoke support. Her volunteer and professional background spans organisations across London, Essex, Birmingham, Manchester and Cambridge, contributing to a broad base of experience.

Before training as a counsellor, Julia spent over 15 years in the health sector, experience she continues to draw on when appropriate. She combines those skills to provide holistic, tailored support and believes that talking and other forms of expression should be offered as a choice within therapy. Julia hopes to be a practitioner who can help clients explore, seek or conclude chapters in their lives, and she is open to meeting people from the United Kingdom and internationally. She holds the BACP credential, the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.

Approaches used in online sessions and how they help

Client-Centred Therapy focuses on creating a respectful, nonjudgemental space where the client’s experience guides the work; it helps people build self-awareness, process emotions, and increase confidence in their own choices. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a structured approach that explores links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours and offers practical strategies for managing anxiety, low mood and unhelpful patterns. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) combines acceptance and change strategies, teaching skills for emotional regulation, distress tolerance and improving relationships, and can be helpful for intense emotions and interpersonal difficulties.

Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Julia works collaboratively with clients to identify which methods fit their goals, preferences and day-to-day needs, adapting techniques as the work unfolds to ensure each person receives appropriate, individualised support.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility - sessions can be scheduled by video call or phone, and shorter exchanges can take place through live chat or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to access regular support around work, family or mobility constraints and allow registered professionals to deliver consistent care across distances while accommodating different communication styles.