Julia Godden

About Me

I help people who feel stuck, unseen, or disconnected from themselves navigate life’s challenges with courage and clarity.

My work is shaped by decades of experience — from social care to trauma therapy — and a deep understanding of how our bodies, histories, relationships, and social worlds shape the way we move through life.

Before becoming a therapist, I spent over 20 years in social and community care. That experience rooted me in a working-class understanding of struggle, dignity, and the realities many people carry silently. It also shaped my awareness of class, culture, access, and the wider systems that impact our mental and emotional lives. Therapy doesn’t happen in a vacuum, and neither do we.

I’m a process-driven artist and a highly trained kundalini yoga and meditation teacher, and I bring a mind–body–energy awareness into the therapy space.

My approach blends relational depth, embodiment, and subtle spiritual insight. I work both psychologically and somatically, supporting change from the “top down” and the “bottom up.”

Grief and loss sit at the heart of my work. Not only bereavement, but the quieter losses we carry — lost versions of ourselves, lost safety, lost health, lost belonging, lost possibilities. I have a deep, ongoing interest in how grief shapes us and how, when met with support, it can open us into a more honest and alive relationship with life.

I have particular experience supporting people living with chronic or invisible illness, long-term pain, and health-related identity changes. I also work closely with artists, and with people moving through major life transitions and the deeper questions that arise with ageing and change.

My practice is LGBTQIA+ and GSRD affirmative and welcoming of neurodiversity. I am committed to working in anti-oppressive and culturally aware ways, including an ongoing examination of my own biases and the inherited frameworks within therapy itself. I’m interested in approaches that move beyond pathologising and toward understanding the intelligence of our survival strategies within the contexts we come from.

I don’t offer quick fixes or surface-level advice. I help you uncover what’s holding you back — old survival strategies, unresolved grief, patterns of avoidance — and support you in building the capacity to meet life more fully. This is a space where you can face loss, fear, and uncertainty, and gradually feel more alive, more embodied, and more able to hold your own life.

Here, you will be met with care, depth, and respect for your lived experience. Nothing in you is too much, too complex, or too late.

The best way of deciding if you would like to work with me is to have an in depth consultation by clicking the link below