Julie Durmush

Julie Durmush is a counsellor who bases her work in a person-centred approach. She aims to create a warm, non-judgemental space where people can be listened to and feel understood. Julie uses empathy and compassion to help clients find clarity and hope for change.

Julie works integratively, drawing on different methods to meet each person’s needs. She commonly uses cognitive behavioural techniques to address unhelpful thinking, emotion-focused ideas to look at relationship patterns, and trauma-focused methods when past events are impacting daily life. Sessions can include focused exercises such as a one-off wheel of life review to map satisfaction across areas of life.

She is registered with the National Counselling Society, NCPS, and follows their ethical framework. That registration is described exactly as NCPS. Julie reports six years of experience working with adults and young people from a wide range of backgrounds, including contacts with emergency services settings.

People come to her for a variety of concerns such as stress, anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, grief, ADHD, LGBT issues, low self-esteem and coping with life changes. Additional focus areas include attachment and abandonment issues, body image, codependency, dissociation and mood disorders.

Julie aims to work alongside clients to build a trusting therapeutic relationship. She values kindness, humility and patience and will listen without judgement as clients talk through what is troubling them.

How Julie’s approaches work online and in session

Julie blends person-centred care with targeted methods to help people work through specific problems. Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and creating a non-judgemental space where the client leads the pace and topic; this helps when someone needs to feel heard and understood. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at patterns of thinking and behaviour and introduces practical exercises to change unhelpful habits and reduce symptoms like anxiety or low mood. Trauma-Focused Therapy provides ways to address the impact of past events through structured techniques that aim to reduce their hold on everyday life.

Finding the right approach is collaborative. Julie will discuss options with each person and adapt methods to match goals, preference and what feels manageable. That joint decision-making helps shape sessions so they stay relevant and useful rather than one-size-fits-all.

If you are considering online work, confirm the current session options before booking as formats are not specified here. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, cut travel time and allow shorter or more flexible check-ins when needed. It also makes it simpler to maintain continuity of care if circumstances change, with the therapist and client agreeing practical arrangements that suit everyday life.