Julie Shore, BACP, NCPS

BACP, NCPS. Four years' professional experience. Julie Shore works with adults on stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, low self-esteem and depression. She also supports people dealing with relationship and family concerns, anger, career pressures, compassion fatigue and ADHD. Sessions focus on practical coping skills, setting boundaries and talking through life changes.

Julie trained with a Certificate in Counselling and a Professional Diploma in Counselling and Psychotherapy. She has completed courses in anger management, assertiveness, health and wellbeing, suicide and self-harm awareness and prevention. She is currently studying for a Diploma in Criminology and is taking modules in eating disorders awareness, mental health first aid and psychopharmacology.

Her approach is integrative. That means she draws on several methods to suit the person in front of her, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), attachment-based work, client-centred ways of working, cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) and existential ideas. In practice this looks like talking openly about what has happened, learning small skills to manage distress and testing out different ways of responding in everyday life.

Julie worked in voluntary roles early in her training and later took on counselling roles at a local cancer hospice and a charity setting. Those roles included supporting people with bereavement and suicidal ideation. From 2023 she has run a private practice in the United Kingdom.

Her own experience of recovery from addiction and depression informs why she chose counselling work. She describes helping people to find practical next steps and build resilience over time. If someone is unsure about what to expect, she invites questions before the first session.

How her approaches translate to remote counselling