Julie Shankly
Compassionate counsellor blending practical and reflective work
About Julie
Julie Shankly has worked in the UK for 21 years as a counsellor registered with the BACP - British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety and depression. She also supports clients with relationship and intimacy issues and the strains that come with parenting and family life.
Julie aims to treat people with respect, sensitivity and compassion. She adapts conversations and approaches to each person's situation rather than using a one-size-fits-all plan.
Background and approach
That means sessions focus on what matters most to the individual and on practical next steps. Her work covers a wide range of concerns including trauma and abuse, grief, eating and sleeping difficulties, anger and low self-esteem. She also helps people dealing with career pressures, compassion fatigue and life changes such as bereavement or illness.
Julie offers help around neurodiversity and personality-related issues as part of her wider practice. In sessions she draws on client-centred listening alongside cognitive approaches and psychodynamic ideas. She may use short-term solution-focused techniques or hypnotherapy where appropriate.
The mix depends on the person's goals and how they respond in conversation. People who want straightforward, respectful support tend to find her style suits them. She invites anyone ready to start to take the next step and complete the simple matching process to set up their first appointment.
What Julie works with
How Julie works
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Sessions & fees
Approaches that suit online counselling
Julie often blends client-centred listening with cognitive behavioural techniques. Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening, empathy and following the pace the person sets so they feel heard and understood; it helps with stress, low mood and relationship worries. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at thinking patterns and practical ways to change behaviours and feelings, which is useful for anxiety, depression and habit-related problems.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Julie will talk through goals, preferences and how a person responds in early sessions. That collaborative process helps shape whether the emphasis is on steady listening, practical skills, brief solutions or deeper reflection.
Online formats make this flexible. Video calls allow a face-to-face conversation similar to in-person sessions. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for people who prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for quick check-ins, written reflection or for those who find typing easier than speaking. These options help people fit therapy around work, caregiving or busy schedules.
| 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
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
