About me
Taking the first step towards therapy can sometimes feel daunting, but it can also be the beginning of meaningful and positive change. Having a safe, supportive space where you can talk openly and explore what is happening in your life can help bring clarity, understanding and a renewed sense of direction. Jula offers a calm, confidential and compassionate environment where clients feel genuinely heard, respected and supported without judgement.
Jula Lewsey is a founding Partner of White Lodge Therapy LLP and a fully qualified Senior Accredited Psychotherapist, Counsellor and Hypnotherapist. She is a registered member of the National Counselling & Psychotherapy Society and the National Hypnotherapy Society.
With many years of clinical experience, Jula works with individuals to explore their thoughts, feelings and experiences, helping them overcome difficulties and develop greater self-understanding, confidence and emotional well-being.
Known for her warm, down-to-earth and straight-talking style, Jula creates a safe and trusting therapeutic space where clients can feel comfortable discussing even the most challenging aspects of their lives. Her approach combines professional knowledge with deep empathy, allowing clients to feel supported while also gently encouraged to gain new insight and perspective.
Jula works as an integrative therapist, drawing on a range of therapeutic approaches and tailoring her work to meet the unique needs of each client. Her focus is on understanding the deeper roots of difficulties and supporting meaningful, lasting change.
Her work incorporates a number of established therapeutic models including:
- Psychodynamic Therapy and Transactional Analysis to explore unconscious influences and relationship patterns.
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) to address unhelpful thinking styles and behavioural patterns.
- Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) to support the processing of trauma and distressing experiences/.
- Gestalt Therapy to increase self-awareness and emotional presence.
- Inner Child work and Hypnotherapy, including regression and parts therapy, to access deeper emotional material and support healing.
Through this integrative approach, Jula helps clients develop healthier ways of thinking, feeling and relating to themselves and others. Whether you are experiencing anxiety, low self-esteem, trauma, relationship difficulties or feeling stuck or overwhelmed, therapy can help you move forward with greater clarity and confidence.
Before training as a therapist, Jula spent many years in a senior Human Resources career and served as a Board Director. This background allows her to offer additional insight to clients experiencing workplace stress, burnout, leadership pressures, career transitions or professional challenges. She understands how work-related demands can impact emotional well-being, identity and relationships.
If you are considering therapy and wondering whether it might help, Jula warmly welcomes you to make contact. Reaching out for support can be the first step towards a more balanced, fulfilled and empowered life.
Couple’s Therapy
Relationships can be one of the most rewarding and sometimes most challenging parts of life. Jula offers specialised couple’s counselling to help partners improve communication, rebuild trust and work through difficulties together.
Whether you are experiencing recurring conflict, struggling with intimacy, recovering from past hurts or navigating a significant life transition, therapy offers a space where both partners can feel heard and understood. Jula works collaboratively with couples to help them reconnect, resolve underlying issues and develop healthier, more fulfilling patterns of relating.
Clinical Supervision
Jula also provides clinical supervision for counsellors, psychotherapists and hypnotherapists. Her supervision style is reflective, collaborative and supportive, offering a space where therapists can explore client work, ethical considerations and their own professional development.
Her approach is integrative and relational, drawing on her breadth of therapeutic training to support supervisees across different modalities and levels of experience. Jula aims to create a safe, non-judgemental environment where curiosity, openness and honest dialogue are encouraged.
Balancing warmth with thoughtful challenge, she helps therapists deepen their clinical insight, strengthen their practice and remain grounded in ethical, compassionate care. Her supervision supports not only clinical work but also the therapist’s wider personal and professional growth.
Training, qualifications & experience
Jula is a Senior Accredited Member of the National Counselling & Psychotherapy Society and the Hypnotherapy Society. She adheres to the Codes of Ethical Standards and Conduct provided by these professional bodies, undertakes regular supervision and continuous professional development allowing her to develop and flourish as a practitioner. Jula holds Diplomas in Psychotherapy & Counselling, Hypnotherapy, Couple's Therapy, EMDR Therapy and an Advanced Diploma in Clinical Supervision.
Member organisations
school Registered / Accredited
Being registered/accredited with a professional body means an individual must have achieved a substantial level of training and experience approved by their member organisation.
The National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society This Not For Profit association of counsellors and psychotherapists aim to support the counselling profession, members and training organisations. In 2013 the NCS register was accredited by the Professional Standards Authority under the Accredited Voluntary Register Scheme. Accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.
Accredited register membership
The Accredited Register Scheme was set up in 2013 by the Department of Health (DoH) as a way to recognise organisations that hold voluntary registers which meet certain standards. These standards are set by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA).
This therapist has indicated that they belong to an Accredited Register.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Other areas of counselling I deal with
Mindfulness Therapy
Neuro Linguistic Programming
Inner Child Therapy
Hypnotherapy
Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprogramming (EMDR)
Fees
£65.00 per session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
The first session will be an assessment session, where Jula and you will decide if you feel you can work together. Should this be agreed, therapy will commence with an open-time contract which means that wherever possible you will both commit to on-going therapy until you feel the work is complete. The initial assessment will include a full history take and the treatment plan, duration and frequency of ongoing sessions will also be discussed and agreed.
As a guide, Jula's fees are:-
Initial Assessment £65 (60 minutes)
Further Appointments £65 per session (60 minutes)
Couple’s Counselling £90 for initial assessment (60 minutes) £90 for therapy sessions (60 minutes)
Pure EMDR Therapy £85 (60 minutes) Assessment &Therapy sessions
Further information
Jula's practice is located at very safe and calming offices in central Braintree with easy access to the train and bus stations.
Jula is a fully qualified and registered hypnotherapist and for clients wishing to work with this method of therapy she can explore your issues through the highly effective use of hypnosis where you are more susceptible to suggestion allowing you to make change in behavioural habits, phobias or anxieties.
