Judith Ramsay
Compassionate counsellor for stressful life challenges
About Judith
Judith Ramsay offers practical support for people facing stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression and major life changes. She also helps with career worries, relationship strain, grief and issues related to identity and sexuality. Judith is experienced with trauma and abuse, eating and sleeping concerns, anger, bipolar challenges, ADHD and compassion fatigue.
Judith draws on eight years of practice and works from a person-focused stance. She trained in counselling and is listed with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP.
Background and approach
Judith uses approaches that match the person in front of her rather than a one-size-fits-all plan. Sessions are conversational and aim to build on strengths. Judith listens first and helps people name their difficulties.
Then she introduces practical ways to manage thoughts, feelings and unhelpful patterns. Work may include short-term goal setting, problem-solving and techniques to reduce anxiety or improve sleep. She has experience supporting carers and adults who survived abuse in childhood, helping them examine how past events affect daily life now.
Judith also helps people facing long-term illness, chronic pain or the stresses of caregiving to find coping strategies that fit their situation. Her style is warm and respectful. People are invited to set the pace and focus on what matters most to them.
Judith adapts tools from cognitive and solution-focused approaches alongside motivational conversations to help maintain change.
What Judith works with
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Sessions & fees
How Judith’s approaches work online
Judith commonly blends Client-Centred Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to help people make sense of what they are feeling and to change unhelpful patterns. Client-Centred Therapy focuses on understanding each person’s experience and offering empathy so people feel heard and can explore their own solutions. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions and gives straightforward techniques to reduce anxiety, improve sleep and tackle low mood.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Judith will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and then decide together which methods suit best. That collaborative process means sessions can shift from listening and exploration to practical skill-building if that is what the person wants.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging, which offer flexibility for different needs. Video works well for in-depth conversations whereas phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging suit brief check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, caregiving or health demands and to keep continuity when life gets busy.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| 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
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
