Julie Shore, BACP, NCPS

Counsellor Julie Shore is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) with four years of professional experience. She works in the United Kingdom and supports people with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, low self-esteem and depression. Her background also covers relationship and family concerns, anger, career issues, compassion fatigue and ADHD.

Julie uses an integrative approach and draws on several recognised methods. She combines elements of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Attachment-Based ideas, Client-Centred work, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Existential therapy to address practical problems and emotional patterns. Sessions focus on what a person wants to change and on developing everyday coping skills.

Her route into counselling included volunteer roles at a local mental health charity and paid work at a cancer hospice. Those roles involved supporting people through bereavement and crisis. She also worked for a charity supporting people with a range of issues including suicidal thoughts.

Julie holds a Certificate in Counselling and a Professional Diploma in Counselling and Psychotherapy. She is currently studying a Diploma in Criminology and has taken additional courses in eating disorders awareness, mental health first aid and psychopharmacology.

Practical help often includes building assertiveness, setting boundaries, stress management and addiction recovery strategies. She offers straightforward, person-focused sessions that look at small, manageable changes people can make between meetings.

To begin, people are invited to use the site matching process and book an initial session. The counsellor asks clients about goals and practical needs in that first meeting to agree how to proceed.

How her approaches work for online counselling