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Julia Golding, UKCP Accredited Psychotherapist

Julia Golding

Brentwood CM14
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Julia Golding, UKCP Accredited Psychotherapist

Julia Golding

Brentwood CM14
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My Approach

Everyone's reasons for seeking therapy are different; we are all unique.

You may be looking to talk to someone who will simply listen to how you're feeling, without judgment, where you can share the things you're struggling to say out loud elsewhere. You may feel anxious and overwhelmed in this strange world we're living in and need help unpicking how you're feeling. You may have lost someone close to you and are struggling to cope. Or your issues may be more complex which may take more time for us to unpick.

I am here to give you that space to listen and figure out what you need.

As an integrative psychotherapist, I am able to draw on many theories, techniques and mindsets. Fundamentally, I work in a trauma-informed way, using a compassionate inquiry approach. This essentially means that I combine neuroscience and attachment-based models to help you figure out “what happened to you”, rather than “what’s wrong with you”.

With this in mind, we would work together to explore and determine an approach that works best for you. This would most likely take the format of considering the areas of your life that are currently causing you difficulty, meanwhile thinking back to your past to help you understand why you may feel the way you do, and working towards visualising what you want from the future.

Your first session would be a non-committal opportunity for us to get to know each other. We can then determine whether we're a good fit. We would also explore together what has brought you to therapy, what it is you're struggling with, and what you are hoping therapy can do to help.

About Me

I am a relational integrative psychotherapist working with adult individuals, both in-person and online. I am available to work online with clients who are based both within the UK, and internationally. I am an experienced therapist working with abuse, neglect, trauma and complex trauma, as well as anxiety, depression and bereavement. My specialisms include working with relational and childhood trauma, health anxiety, OCD (particularly intrusive thoughts), ADHD and intergenerational trauma.

I trained at the Minster Centre, pioneers in training integrative counsellors and psychotherapists. I am a registered member of both UKCP and BACP. Before training to be a therapist, I worked in both the corporate and charity sectors, and I also took time out to be a full-time Mum for a while. I therefore have a broad range of life experiences to draw upon as a therapist.

Having been in therapy myself, I know what it feels like to sit in the other chair. As a relational therapist, I believe wholeheartedly in the healing power of the relationship between a therapist and a client. As such, I believe it is important you find a therapist you can work with and trust.

I work with

  • Individuals
  • Private healthcare referrals

Special Interests

Like all UKCP registered psychotherapists and psychotherapeutic counsellors I can work with a wide range of issues, but here are some areas in which I have a special interest or additional experience.

We all feel anxious at times – it’s human and natural – and it’s an experience that is becoming increasingly common. We often feel anxious about our loved ones, our health, our future, our financial situation, our work/career, the list is endless. However, anxiety can become overwhelming, debilitating and exhausting when it seems to permeate everything we do. It’s something we can feel all the time, without understanding why, almost a type of “nameless dread”, something we can’t put our finger on. I can help you to get underneath these feelings so you can begin to understand why you may feel the way you do and also consider strategies for how to manage and ease these feelings.
Having worked in a bereavement charity, I have spent lots of time supporting people whose loved ones have died. It can be a particularly difficult time when we lose someone close to us. Living without this person in our world can feel confusing, frightening, painful, even impossible. The grieving process is natural and sadly something we will all have to go through at some point in our lives. It comes with being human. However, it can become more complex for some of us, surfacing previous losses, issues or feelings which until now have managed to remain in the background. I can give you the space to talk about your loved one and corresponding feelings in a non-judgmental space where we can consider all of these aspects together.
We all have days when we feel sad or low, and struggle to get out of bed. However, when we experience depression, we can feel persistently sad or empty for long periods of time. It can make us feel useless and hopeless, preventing us from wanting to spend time doing the things we love, with the people we love. It can feel never-ending, with a sense of “what’s the point?”. People struggling with depression often feel misunderstood, that they should “snap out of it” and “cheer up”. This is easier said than done. I can provide a no-pressure, non-judgmental space to listen to how you feel. We can then start to think about the areas of your life that are causing stress, and help you to start to piece it all together so you find ways to feel hopeful again.
We all feel stressed at times – we’re living in a world with increasing amounts of choice, pressure and demands on our time. A little bit of stress can feel helpful, especially as we get closer to a deadline for example, as it can give us that extra motivation to get things done. But when life feels hard in several areas of our lives – financially, at work, at home, in our relationships - it can get too much and we can start feeling like we can’t cope, nor envisage how or when it will get better. This can contribute to feelings of anxiety and depression, anger issues, and feelings of low self-worth. I can provide you with space to unpick why you may be feeling stressed, including thinking back to your previous life experiences which may be compounding why you feel the way you do.
Trauma is talked about a lot these days but what does it really mean? We often associate trauma with a response to having experienced significant one-off events like accidents or natural disasters. In fact, trauma is something we are all likely to have experienced in our lifetime, when we have felt particularly unsafe, unloved, or threatened in some way. Working in a trauma-informed way is central to my approach, where we would consider your own personal fight/flight system and how it has responded and developed in response to what has happened to you. I am particularly experienced in working with relational trauma (also known as complex PTSD or developmental trauma), where we would consider how the relationships in your life have led you to feel and respond to life’s challenges in ways you would like to reflect on and change.

Types of Therapies Offered

  • Integrative Psychotherapist

What I can help with

  • Abuse
  • ADHD
  • Adoption
  • Anxiety
  • Bereavement
  • Cancer
  • Depression
  • Divorce
  • Family
  • Health-related Issues
  • Mental Health Issues
  • Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
  • Online Counselling
  • Parents
  • Post-Traumatic Stress
  • Relationships
  • Sexual Abuse
  • Sexuality
  • Spirituality
  • Stress
  • Trauma

Types of sessions

  • Face to Face - Long Term
  • Face to Face - Short Term
  • Online Therapy

Brentwood Office

Warley Hill Practice
29 Warley Hill
Brentwood CM14 5HR
United Kingdom (UK)

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Cost:

£70-80

Brentwood Office

Brentwood Clinic of Complementary Medicine
31 Shenfield Road
Brentwood CM15 8AG
United Kingdom

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UKCP College

  • Humanistic and Integrative Psychotherapy College (HIPC)
Julia Golding

Julia Golding

Brentwood CM14
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