Julie Gregory-Bateman, BACP

Julie Gregory-Bateman offers a calm, person-focused approach that helps people talk through difficult feelings at a steady pace. She uses conversational, warm sessions so clients can explore what matters most to them and try different ways of coping with stress, worry or big life decisions.

Julie listens to what is happening now and also helps people look back when that feels useful. Looking at earlier experiences can make current worries easier to manage. She aims to create a welcoming and non-judgemental space where people can begin to make sense of their emotions and responses.

Her background includes work in business management across finance, logistics, procurement and hospitality, which she uses to understand practical life pressures. That experience informs how she discusses realistic support options alongside therapy work. She also has training relevant to dementia and end-of-life conversations.

Julie is a registered member of the BACP, and she draws on approaches such as attachment-focused work, client-centred ways of talking, cognitive behavioural methods and trauma-focused techniques. She has four years of clinical experience and brings that learning into each session.

People come to her with worries about anxiety, stress, grief, low self-esteem and adapting to life changes. She also supports those affected by trauma, relationship and communication problems, issues around control and commitment, and the impact of serious illness. If you want to find out more, she invites a brief initial chat to see if her way of working suits you.

How Julie uses therapeutic approaches online

Julie works with attachment-based and client-centred ways of working to help people feel understood and heard. Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current emotional patterns and can help with issues like loneliness, trust and difficulty asking for support. Client-centred therapy focuses on the person in front of her, offering empathic listening and gentle reflection so clients can find their own answers.

She also uses cognitive behavioural methods to help people notice unhelpful thinking and try practical changes. CBT techniques can be useful for anxiety, stress and low mood because they teach concrete skills for managing thoughts and behaviours. These approaches are offered within a trauma-informed frame when past hurt is part of the picture.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work itself. Julie will talk with each person about goals, preferences and what feels most useful, and then adapt the mix of approaches collaboratively. For session arrangements, please confirm current options before booking as the biography does not specify formats here. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions around work and family life, reduce travel time and allow for shorter check-ins when needed. It can also suit quieter surroundings or lower-bandwidth connections depending on practical needs.