Juliette Kirkwood, PACFA

Juliette Kirkwood is a counsellor with two decades of experience supporting adults and adolescents. She brings a practical, body-aware approach to therapy and often helps people coping with anxiety, stress, relationship difficulties, trauma and major life changes.

She believes healing involves both mind and body. That means talking is important, but so is noticing how the body holds experience. Juliette uses Dance Movement Therapy alongside traditional counselling to help clients who find words alone limiting.

Her background includes work in inpatient and outpatient psychiatric settings and programs run from community organisations and women’s health retreats. She also spent five years lecturing in a Graduate Diploma of Dance Movement Therapy, which deepened her focus on reflective practice and current research.

In private practice she commonly supports people with histories of complex trauma, using trauma-informed principles and attention to nervous system regulation. Sessions move at a pace each person can manage, with an emphasis on building a steady, respectful therapeutic relationship.

Earlier experience as a school counsellor means she is familiar with anxiety, mood concerns, identity development and life transitions in adolescents. Juliette works in Australia and offers sessions in English and Arabic.

How embodied approaches translate to online therapy

Juliette uses a blend of talking therapies and Dance Movement Therapy, which brings attention to movement, breath and bodily sensation as part of healing. Dance Movement Therapy can help people access feelings that are hard to put into words and develop greater body awareness for trauma, anxiety and mood concerns.

She also works from trauma-informed principles that focus on nervous system regulation and pacing. This approach emphasises safety, slow progression and practical tools to manage stress responses and build resilience over time.

Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and practical needs with each person and adapt techniques that fit those priorities. That collaboration helps decide how much movement-based work to include alongside verbal therapy.

Session formats are not specified in the biography, so confirm current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It can also make it simpler to access a therapist who integrates body-based methods without needing to be in the same town.