Trudie Johnston
Compassionate counsellor for adult life changes
About Trudie
Trudie Johnston is a counsellor working in the United Kingdom with six years of professional experience. She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and holds NCPS credentials. Trudie supports adults aged 18 and over and welcomes people who are unsure how to begin or who have worried for some time.
Her early work as a bereavement support volunteer inspired her to train in counselling. Since qualifying she has worked both in independent practice and clinical settings.
Background and approach
That background has given her experience with grief, anxiety, stress, low self-esteem and health-related concerns. Trudie uses several helping approaches and adapts them to each person's needs. She began with person-centred counselling and later added attachment-based ideas, cognitive behavioural techniques and psychodynamic perspectives.
Sessions focus on what the person brings and on finding what helps most. In sessions she aims to create an open atmosphere where thoughts and feelings can be talked about without judgement. Practical steps and coping ideas are offered alongside space to reflect on deeper patterns and relationships.
Trudie draws on mindfulness and somatic awareness when useful. People come to her with relationship worries, family matters, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related concerns, anger and career pressures. She also works with issues such as chronic illness, caregiver stress, body image, bereavement and end-of-life matters.
Trudie helps people look at what matters to them and find manageable ways forward.
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Sessions & fees
Approaches used in online counselling and how they help
Trudie commonly draws on attachment-based ideas to look at relationship patterns and how past connections shape current feelings. This work can help people understand closeness, trust and repeated reactions in relationships.She also uses cognitive behavioural therapy, which focuses on practical steps to change unhelpful thought patterns and behaviour. CBT can be useful for anxiety, low mood and stress by offering clear strategies and small experiments to try between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the process and Trudie works collaboratively to make that choice. She will talk through your goals, preferences and what feels most helpful, then adapt methods as you go rather than sticking to one fixed plan.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging, which give flexibility for different needs. Video allows face-to-face conversation when that matters, phone calls suit people with less bandwidth, live chat or messaging can fit short check-ins or busy schedules. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family responsibilities and mobility limitations, while keeping the focus on useful therapeutic work.
| 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
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Registered with
- BACP, NCPS
- Languages
- English
