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Julia Godden

counselling

In-clinic sessions

 Nailsworth, and Cirencester Gloucestershire 

ABOUT COUNSELLING

remote sessions

Take place on the telephone or a secure online platform. 

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Supporting you with

Anxiety and Overwhelm

Feeling anxious, tense, wired, or unable to rest often has deeper roots. Anxiety can be a signal that something inside hasn’t had space to settle or be heard. We explore how anxiety shows up in your body and mind, what it may be protecting, and how to open space for more steadiness, choice, and self-trust
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Trauma and Survival patterns

Trauma isn’t only about single events — it can also come from long periods of stress, relational wounds, neglect, or environments where you had to adapt to survive. These experiences can live on in the body as tension, shutdown, hyper-vigilance, or a sense of being stuck. Together we gently explore the patterns your system developed to protect you, and build the safety and capacity needed for new ways of being.
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Relationships and Communication

This includes romantic, family, work, and internal self-relationships. We look at patterns that feel stuck, repeating, or unfulfilling — how you learned to relate, where you override yourself, and how you might begin to express needs, boundaries, and feelings in ways that feel more aligned and authentic
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Life transitions and Identity

Times of change — ageing, career shifts, endings, beginnings, health changes, or inner turning points — can feel disorienting or like part of you is dissolving. Therapy can support you to navigate the uncertainty, make meaning of what’s shifting, and grow into a way of being that feels more congruent with who you are now.
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Health and Chronic Illness

Health, Chronic Illness & Pain Long-term health challenges, invisible illness, and chronic pain can deeply affect identity, relationships, and how you experience your body. Therapy offers a place to acknowledge the emotional impact of these changes, process grief and frustration, and grow a more compassionate and steady relationship with yourself within new limits
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Grief and Loss

Whether recent or long-held, obvious or subtle, anticipated or unspoken, loss shapes how we move through life. This can include bereavement, health changes, relationship endings, lost roles, or parts of yourself you had to leave behind. I support people to feel their grief more fully, make space for what was never processed, and create new ways of living with what cannot simply be “fixed.”
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What is Offered

Counselling

Offered in person and online, via a secure platform or on the telephone if you prefer. More details about what counselling entails can be found HERE

More about what happens in our time together can be found in the common questions below.

1-1

We meet one-one weekly, if you decide to continue beyond the initial session. I suggest to continue for at least 6-10 weeks, before a review.  I work for limited sessions, but mostly I work open ended for mid to long term. 

Regular reviews will be part of our work together. 

The most important part of our work is that you are getting what you are seeking in way of support. This means building a good relationship between us.

For Adults

I work with anyone over the age of 18. 

common questions

It is not known ahead of time when you might feel differently, clarity about your situation is revealed over time. There are no promises of a certain type of outcome but through the conditions I provide you, grants a certain sense of trust to evolve, which allows a greater freedom for exploring the work we do collaboratively. 

We will continue to review how things are going, and work accordingly. It’s up to you how long you want to work together. I suggest it takes at least 6 sessions to get something worthwhile, this allows any initial feelings, like nervousness to dissipate. 

 Face to face and remote sessions will be  50 minutes unless we discuss an alternative working agreement. 

This can be discussed. 

We will agree the terms of our arrangement in a working agreement, that is most suited to you. 

 Weekly sessions are recommended. 

Our working time will be kept to our regular meeting times. You are welcome to email me, I wont reply but will address in session. You can bring any notes you have made to discuss, or make notes in sessions.

To book a full consultation session of 60 minutes where we will agree a mutually convenient time to meet, allows time to find out how we might work together. 

If you have questions or concerns prior to booking, there is an option to have a brief  introductory call for 10-15 minutes, at no cost. I don’t offer this as standard but happy to proceed with this option prior to booking if it is of benefit. 

we can meet  via a secure video platform or on the phone if that is your preference. You can contact me via email at juliagodden@protonmail.com,  or call me or text on 07747843287

 Or you can add your details to my contact form HERE 

You can find out more about the initial call HERE

The cost, whether face to face, telephone, email or video sessions is £65 per 50 minute session 

 

It’s so important to have a good feeling about your therapist, and feel able to work together.

Building a relationship can  take some time and these concerns can be thought about together in the initial consultation of 60 minutes.

The choice is always yours, this depends of what you are bringing to work with I can work open ended with you, or short term. 

Its very individualised, and Its good to have an opportunity to work more deeply post 3 months. 

I would say it is good to have at least 8 sessions. We would review how things are going periodically. Checking in to ensure that you are getting needs met. 

I work face to face in Nailsworth,  and Cirencester Gloucestershire.

Please refer to the confidentiality part of the working agreement. Yes, there are limits around what is legal, safety and harm. But everything you bring will remain within our work. I do take the work to supervision where I discuss my way of working, and around themes but your details are kept to a minimum. 

Please email, phone or make contact through the booking form here