Julia Harvey
Gentle, practical counselling and coaching
About Julia
Julia Harvey is a BACP counsellor with 20 years of professional experience. She supports people who are stressed, anxious, exhausted or facing major life changes, and helps with grief, low self-esteem, career concerns and long-term health issues. She creates a calm, non-judgemental space where people can talk about what they are feeling.
Sessions aim to help clients notice patterns, build confidence and find practical steps to feel more in control.
Background and approach
Julia combines counselling with coaching to focus on what matters now and what can change next. Her approach takes a whole-person view. That means looking at physical, emotional and lifestyle factors together.
She encourages people to tune into their own instincts and to try small, manageable changes rather than big, sudden shifts. Julia uses client-centred conversations to follow what each person brings and mindfulness practices to help with stress and grounding. These tools are useful for anxiety, sleep issues, anger, low mood and coping with chronic illness or caregiving strain.
Her background includes many years supporting people through bereavement, adoption and foster care issues, attachment and family of origin concerns, fertility and intimacy-related difficulties, and body image and eating concerns. She also offers help around career direction and life transitions. Starting therapy with Julia usually involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling sessions online.
She aims to walk alongside people as they explore change, regain energy and rebuild confidence.
What Julia works with
How Julia works
Listed by Julia among the ways they work.
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Sessions & fees
Approaches that guide online counselling
Client-centred therapy focuses on the person's own experience and perspective. The counsellor follows what matters most to the client, offers empathic listening and helps the person find their own answers. This approach is useful for building self-esteem, exploring relationship and family of origin concerns, and clarifying life direction.Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and calm the mind. It helps people manage anxiety, sleeplessness, anger and the low energy that can come with chronic illness or long-term stress.
Finding the best approach is part of the work. The counsellor will discuss goals, try different ways of working and adjust methods based on what feels helpful. This is a collaborative process where the client's needs and preferences guide decisions.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different lifestyles. Video calls are good for face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can fit into a short break and need less bandwidth, and chat or messaging can be useful for quick check-ins or ongoing dialogue between sessions. These options make counselling more flexible and easier to fit around work, caregiving and health needs.
| 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
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Fertility issues
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
