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I'm a qualified and accredited counsellor with over 10 years of experience, giving you a sensitively personalised approach for your individual counselling needs. I'd welcome the opportunity to have an initial conversation about how we can work together to make lasting positive change in your life. I offer an initial free 30 minute consultation so you be sure I'm the right match for you.

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I'm Julie Tanner, an experienced and accredited counsellor working in person in Stafford and by video across the UK and internationally. I work with adults aged 18+ experiencing all kind of life situations and struggles. I'm trauma-informed and neurodivergent-informed.

You will always be treated with kindness and respect and my genuine interest in you will be reflected in a fully personalised counselling approach that gives you what you need.

I respect the strength and courage it takes for my clients to consider counselling and reach out for support.

Welcome

So many things in our life are outside of our control - we can easily end up feeling 'wound-up', uptight and generally discontented or feeling we're failing or 'not enough' in some way - leading to stress, anxiety, depression and emotions that can be overwhelming and hard to deal with.

Modern life is tough and our human minds are not well designed to cope with the overwhelm and stress it can bring. We need a full tool box of emotional tools and techniques to help us cope well.

Our counselling work will give you emotional tools and coping strategies. Even if your life isn't like you would want, we will help you create a fulfilling life with meaning and hope.

Here are some broad areas I work with:

Untangling what’s going on and making sense of your experiences. For some people this can include looking more closely at their ADHD or autism.

Helping manage strong , overwhelming or unhelpful thoughts and feelings you may experience.

Identifying what drives you and how to make your life and relationships work better for you.

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Changing behaviour you feel has become unhelpful or problematic for you.

Negotiating grief or other life crisis and loss.

Undoing self criticism and enhancing self-care.

Testimonials

Julie was really helpful when talking to her about any feelings I had. She took it the next step by actually taking the time to look into things I had mentioned which could later be discussed in sessions. She's a credit to her work and would recommend anyone who's perhaps looking on here for counselling to take the push and reach out to her

Throughout my counselling sessions I was able to make sense of certain thoughts and was taught how to help control other thoughts that were just not helpful to me. Over my time working with Julie I have learnt a lot about myself and why I think or behave in a certain way. I’m very grateful for how Julie has helped me move forward with my life and understand my depression

Thank you - I am coping better each day with your counselling help and support.

Julie was excellent to work with. She made me focus on specific areas for reflection and strategies.

After having therapy with Julie I have an increased awareness of my self perceptions and how to change this. I have learned how to care for myself.

Julie was simply a great help!

Julie has helped me through an extremely difficult time - I could not have done it on my own.

From the start I found Julie very understanding of my situation and was able to see things from my point of view. I cannot tell you how refreshing that was for me.

I am now a better person and have the tools for dealing with the situations I was finding myself in thanks to the sessions with Julie, I would strongly recommend Julie’s services

I would definitely recommend you.

I found our sessions incredibly helpful and I seem to be managing much better.

Although we only had one session you really helped me to understand why I used to drink so much and I'm grateful for that.

I was in a very low place with my mental health. I was struggling to cope with my emotions and my whole outline on my life was quite negative. Instantly Julie made me feel at ease and comfortable, she listened to me and even allowed me to rant, cry and offload without judgement. She helped me make sense of my emotions by putting things into perspective, but at the same time never made me feel like I was alone or should be ashamed of how I was feeling. She normalised my emotions and spoke to me in ways that I could relate to and understand a bit better. Julie also provided lots of coping strategies that I will continue to use. I would highly recommend Julie to anyone who is seeking counselling and I cannot thank her enough for everything she has done for me and helped me through. She has made it clear that her door is always open and I know where she is if I ever feel like I need support in the future.