Julia Jakeman , BACP, NCPS

Julia Jakeman is a counsellor who uses attachment and emotion-focused ways of working to help people make sense of relationships and personal struggles. She holds BACP and NCPS credentials and has around five years' experience supporting adults with a wide range of concerns. Julia aims to offer a calm space where people can be heard and reflected back to in simple, direct terms.

She commonly helps people dealing with stress, anxiety, low self-esteem and depression. Addictions and problematic alcohol use are a notable focus, and she also supports people facing grief, trauma, eating and intimacy-related issues. Julia works with relationship problems and communication difficulties as well as life changes that feel overwhelming.

In sessions she draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early bonds shape current patterns. Emotionally-Focused Therapy is used to identify and shift painful interaction cycles. She also uses EMDR where trauma memories need targeted attention and the Gottman and Imago approaches for relationship work.

Julia's way of working is practical and conversational. She helps people name patterns, try small changes and build new ways of relating. Sessions can be short-term focused on a single problem or longer-term for deeper change.

She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging, and is able to work with people in the United Kingdom and international clients who prefer online support. To begin, users complete a short matching questionnaire and book a session based on availability.

How attachment and emotion-focused methods work online

Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. Online sessions can map those patterns and help people try different responses in real life. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) focuses on feelings in relationships and aims to uncover underlying emotions that drive conflict or withdrawal. This approach is useful for people wanting clearer emotional connection and better communication.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss your needs, goals and preferences and together you will choose whether attachment work, EFT or EMDR is most helpful. That collaborative decision can change over time as needs shift.

Online therapy offers practical benefits. Video calls let you work face to face when distance makes in-person meetings hard. Phone sessions can be useful when a shorter check-in is needed or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging allow ongoing reflection between sessions and suit people who prefer writing or need flexibility around work and daily life. Registered or accredited professionals can adapt these formats to make therapy fit into busy schedules and different time zones.