Julie-Anne Golding
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About me
NB: I am on leave 12th to 23rd May inclusive.
There is a lot of information on my profile and it can seem a bit overwhelming, so before you read on, what you might want to know is I am open, honest, warm and with a calming quality I am told really helps clients to feel a little calmer in my presence. My fee is £55 but I offer a discount for Block bookings and am always happy to have a chat about what you may feel is affordable for you. Currently, I have some availability for new clients and although appointments are mostly during the day, I do have a couple of evening appointments.
Able to offer a blend of modalities tailored to each individual and their needs, having trained both Psychodynamically (very similar to psychotherapy) and Integratively, which means I have a lot of tools in my toolbox to help with a wide range of mental and emotional difficulties. My niche is long term support dedicated to helping clients with complicated trauma which may include PTSD, Anxiety, Depression, Psychosomatic Illness, Dissociation as well as many other presenting, distressing symptoms. My developed style of delivery of counselling help is not strictly psychodynamic, using a more person centred approach generally. Empathic understanding, Congruence (genuineness) and Unconditional Positive Regard (Non-Judgmental position) being at the heart of my approach. Supporting clients over periods ranging from 6 sessions for specific struggles such as short term social anxiety, to a number of years and everything in between.
Offering warmth and experience gained working with issues such as trauma, childhood trauma including abuse, low self-esteem, self-harm, depression, generalised anxiety disorder, separation anxiety, health anxiety, psychosomatic illness and pain, bereavement and loss. I have felt privileged to have been entrusted to help so many people to regain control over their mental, emotional and physical well being over the last 13 years.
Whether you are looking for help with trust issues, loss, including redundancy, loss of a pet, loss of home, loss of a part of your physicality, loss of material belongings, loss of relationships and of loved ones, to name but a few. Struggles with lying (your own or others), faithfulness (your own or others), emotional therapy can help with so many different problems you may encounter.
Personal therapy can also help with issues such as feelings related to abandonment, personality disorders such as borderline personality disorder, DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder), narcissism, dependent personality, and avoidant personality. Young people experiencing anxiety and depression, gender identity confusion and/or acceptance and Older people struggling with the concepts of retirement, physical changes and loneliness are all areas I can help with.
Help for stress management, obsessive compulsive disorder and intrusive thoughts, addictions, family issues, bereavement including complicated bereavement which also incorporates losing loved ones due to violence and trauma including complicated trauma, which also addresses trauma suffered within family situations.
Supporting individuals in their goals to find inner peace, strength, self-growth and understanding, acceptance and management of difficult emotional and mental health issues.
Clients have ranged in age from 13 years to 76 years and have been diverse in gender, culture, creed, ethnicity, sexual orientation, physical and learning ability. Anyone who experiences the world and their emotions/thoughts differently to others (Neurodiversity).
Worked with people diagnosed with ADHD and Autism and successfully referred clients who benefitted from having an assessment for ADHD/Autism.
Training, qualifications & experience
- HE Dip Psychodynamic Counselling
- BA Integrative Counselling
- BACP Member
- DBS Checked to enhanced level
I have been qualified for 13 years and have experience of working with people with a variety of diverse issues over the past 15 years (2 years when training and 13 since qualification).
I have also undergone additional training days and courses including working with adoptees, targeted trauma training, loss (including bereavement), dissociative Identity Disorder, BPD, working with dreams, to name a few.
Member organisations
BACP is one of the UK’s leading professional bodies for counselling and psychotherapy with around 60,000 members. The Association has several different categories of membership, including Student Member, Individual Member, Registered Member MBACP, Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Accred) and Senior Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Snr Acccred). Registered and accredited members are listed on the BACP Register, which shows that they have demonstrated BACP’s recommended standards for training, proficiency and ethical practice. The BACP Register was the first register of psychological therapists to be accredited by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA). Accredited and senior accredited membership are voluntary categories for members who choose to undertake a rigorous application and assessment process to demonstrate additional standards around practice, training and supervision. Individual members will have completed an appropriate counselling or psychotherapy course and started to practise, but they won’t appear on the BACP Register until they've demonstrated that they meet the standards for registration. Student members are still in the process of completing their training. All members are bound by the BACP Ethical Framework and a Professional Conduct Procedure.
Accredited register membership
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Areas of counselling I deal with
Other areas of counselling I deal with
Self-Development
Family Dynamics
Loss of direction/identity
Work/life balance/stresses
Loneliness/feelings of isolation
Incurable Diseases
Psychosomatic Illness
If you can not see what is troubling you listed above, send me an email or give me a call and we can discuss whether I can provide the support you are looking for.
Therapies offered
Fees
£55.00 - £110.00
Concessions offered for
Additional information
Hi there, thank you for pausing to read my profile, this section is the business section, please read the rest of my profile for more information.
Opting for a free initial consultation gives us both a chance to meet and ascertain if we might be a good fit for ongoing therapy. Whether you opt for an online zoom call or would like a telephone call, this initial consultation would be 15 to 20 minutes duration. I also offer a face to face initial session of 50 minutes duration which does incur a £40 fee and would also serve as an assessment session. My usual fee for a counselling session if you decide to go ahead and have regular sessions is £55 but this is by no means set in stone with options to reduce the cost when booking blocks of sessions. I have 2 spaces for concessionary rates at any time but there is usually a waiting list for these spaces, please do enquire about availability. I am also willing to have a conversation regarding a reduced rate for students, trainee counsellors and those on a low income.
When I work
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I have a break coming up in May from 12th to 23rd inclusive. Other than this, I have no other breaks planned atm.
I do not work weekends, bank holidays or Fri pm.
Further information
Whatever you are looking for help with, regardless of what I have training in, what you might want to know is whether I have experience of working with the issue you are currently suffering with.
Everything I have listed on my profile are areas I have worked with historically and what I have found is people tend to come to me mostly for issues connected with historical sexual abuse, sexual assault, mental and emotional abuse. I see people with a range of anxiety levels, depression and suicidal ideation, self-harm both historical and current. Bereavement, especially that suffered in childhood but also in adulthood and various forms of neurodiversity previously referred to as ADHD and Autism, including advice regarding whether someone may benefit from an assessment.
Having experience of working with people from many diverse backgrounds, I offer an honest but sensitive and reliable counselling service which is primarily a talking therapy but also providing some other interventions to help where appropriate. These may include CBT worksheets, creative interventions such as visualisation, empty chair techniques, sand play, and many more and all of which I have previously engaged with when helping clients who may need more than talking alone.
I have a counselling room separate from my home in my garden, accessed through a side gate, along a passageway, and also separate from the garden itself. Alternatively, if you prefer, I offer online sessions over zoom, WhatsApp or FaceTime.
The assessment is designed to ascertain what form of therapy will best suit your needs, what you are looking for and to answer any questions you may have about therapy including costs.
The assessment also gives us both the opportunity to gauge how well suited we are for a therapist/client relationship, since it is central to the work we will be embarking upon together to help you realise your goals and or heal the pain you have been suffering mentally, emotionally, physically.
If you would like to discuss your needs before deciding whether to proceed with the assessment, I will be happy to chat informally regarding your situation and discuss how I may be able to support you.
