Julia Jakeman
Therapist who blends attachment and trauma work
About Julia
Julia Jakeman is a counsellor who uses attachment and emotion-focused approaches to help people feel heard and understood. She draws on five years of practice and over 1,000 hours working with adults and couples. Her work is practical and down-to-earth, aimed at making change feel possible one step at a time.
She often supports people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression and addiction. Relationship difficulties, intimacy concerns and communication problems are common themes in her work.
Background and approach
She also addresses grief, trauma, eating and body image issues, and struggles with self-esteem or anger. Julia blends approaches such as Attachment-Based Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy and EMDR to match the needs of each person. That means sometimes focusing on how early relationships shape current patterns, sometimes helping couples reconnect emotionally, and sometimes using trauma-focused techniques when past events keep affecting daily life.
Sessions can be short-term or longer-term depending on what an individual wants. Her style aims to create space for people to talk through what matters to them and to try concrete ways of building different habits in relationships and self-care. Julia works from the United Kingdom and holds BACP and NCPS credentials.
She speaks English and is available for international clients by video, phone, live chat or text messaging. To begin, a client completes a short matching questionnaire and schedules sessions after choosing the Start Therapy button. Her practice places emphasis on collaboration, so therapy plans are developed together and adjusted as needs change.
What Julia works with
How Julia works
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Sessions & fees
How attachment and trauma approaches work online
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early bonds influence current patterns in relationships and self-worth; online sessions can help people notice those patterns and try new ways of relating. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) focuses on the emotional connection between partners and helps rebuild closeness through guided conversations and new interaction habits. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a trauma-focused method that works with upsetting memories to reduce their emotional charge and the way they disrupt daily life.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most helpful, and they will adapt methods as progress is made. This collaborative process means plans are reviewed and changed if something does not fit.
Online therapy using video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text messaging offers practical benefits. Video sessions let people meet face to face when travel is difficult. Phone calls need less bandwidth and can fit into a shorter break. Live chat and messaging allow brief check-ins or written reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and other commitments while keeping the focus on making steady progress.
| 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
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Registered with
- BACP, NCPS
- Languages
- English
