Julie Shankly, BACP

Julie Shankly is a counsellor practising in the United Kingdom with 21 years of professional experience. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, depression and relationship concerns, and she tailors conversations to each person’s needs. She aims to treat everyone with sensitivity and respect and encourages people who are taking first steps towards change.

Her background includes long-term work supporting people with family conflict, intimacy difficulties and a range of emotional challenges such as grief, trauma and eating and sleeping problems. She also addresses issues like ADHD, compassion fatigue and career-related stress. Her practice includes work with LGBT clients and those coping with serious illness, chronic pain or caring responsibilities.

Julie draws on a mix of counselling styles when planning sessions. She uses client-centred methods to build a trusting, conversational relationship. She may also use psychodynamic ideas to look at patterns of feeling and behaviour that repeat over time.

For practical steps and coping, she applies cognitive behavioural techniques to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different responses. Solution-focused work helps set short-term goals and track small changes. Hypnotherapy can be suggested as an option where appropriate and agreed together.

Julie emphasises collaboration when planning sessions. She will adapt pace and focus to what you bring, and work with you to set goals you find meaningful. If you are ready to begin, the next step is to use the site’s Start Therapy button and complete the matching questionnaire.

How Julie's approaches work for online therapy

Julie uses client-centred therapy to build a warm, listening relationship where the person's priorities guide the conversation; this helps when someone needs time to be heard and understood. Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing more helpful ways of thinking and acting, which can be useful for anxiety, low mood and sleep problems.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Julie will work with each person to decide which methods feel most useful, and she will adapt the plan as progress is reviewed. Goals and preferences shape the sessions rather than a fixed programme.

Confirm the session formats available before booking, as the biography does not list specific options. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, for example by avoiding travel, allowing shorter check-ins during a work break, or offering audio-only conversations when video is not needed. Registered or accredited professionals can often use online work to maintain continuity of care when people move or travel, and to help people keep momentum between in-person appointments.