Julie Fraser, BACP

Julie Fraser helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma and difficulties with eating. She also supports people dealing with relationship strain, parenting pressures and low mood. Her approach is calm and straightforward, aimed at making space for honest conversation and practical next steps.

Julie is a BACP counsellor, which indicates membership of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. She has six years of professional experience working with people who want to feel steadier and more in control. Sessions focus on what matters most to the person in front of her rather than a fixed agenda.

In practice Julie uses a mix of approaches to suit each person. She draws on client-centred ways of working to listen and reflect, cognitive behavioural ideas to notice and change unhelpful patterns, and trauma-focused methods when past harm affects day-to-day life. She keeps explanations plain and shares practical tools to try between sessions.

People come to Julie for many reasons - grief, parenting stress, problems with sleep or eating, difficulties with intimacy, or career and identity worries. She also pays attention to attachment and abandonment concerns, communication struggles and the impact of caregiving.

Her style is supportive and task-focused when needed. Julie works with each person to set realistic goals and to check progress as therapy continues. To begin, she asks people to describe what they want to change so sessions can be shaped around those aims.

How Julie’s approaches translate to online therapy

Julie draws on client-centred work and cognitive behavioural therapy to guide online sessions. Client-Centred Therapy focuses on empathic listening and helping people make sense of their feelings; it can help with low mood, relationship worries and identity questions. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at thoughts, feelings and behaviours and offers simple exercises to reduce anxiety, improve sleep and change unhelpful routines.

Finding the best approach is part of the work. Julie will discuss goals and preferences with each person and then suggest methods that fit those aims. She treats the choice as collaborative and checks in regularly to adapt the plan if something is not helping.

Confirm the session formats before booking, as the biography does not specify which online options are used. Online work can make it easier to fit counselling into a busy week, reduce travel time and allow shorter check-ins when a full appointment is not possible. It can also let people try exercises between sessions in their daily context, and offers flexible ways to keep therapy going when life is unpredictable.