Let Me
Introduce Myself...
Please let me introduce myself and tell you a little bit about me and my counselling experience…
Hello to you, I’m Juliette.
In my personal life, I like all things sweet, I dislike the gym (but go to keep me healthy). I love nature and pottering around my garden, to me, this is free medicine and good for my soul!
I live with my family and my fluffy cat (another free medicine, pets are great for our wellbeing!).
I can be a bit of a sweary Mary (expressive, not offensive), I love music, concerts and festivals.
I love catching up with my friends and family. I love binge watching anything on Netflix. I love to laugh (also good for my soul).
As for my professional life, I have always worked with people and prior to becoming a counsellor, I worked as a HR professional for a large manufacturing company. It took me nearly 13 years to realise a unionised and controlled environment was not for me. Rules, policies, procedures and conformity was becoming my norm but it didn’t feel right.
I recognised my profession was no longer suiting me, a square peg in a round hole if you like, it was not giving me the purpose, meaning or work life balance I wanted, so I decided to start a new chapter in working with people, but in a different way.
My journey into counselling
Nearly 15 years ago, my life changed very quickly following a sudden loss of someone close to me. Life was put into perspective and I recognised my profession needed attention. I wanted my work to be meaningful and reflect me as a person, so I decided to become a counsellor.
I left behind the world of business and started my counselling career. I left my job and became a student and progressed from an introductory basic evening course to completing a Bachelor of Arts in counselling. As my training increased my self-awareness, I recognised I spent so many years trying to fit to other people's rules and expectations, I was denying myself. Now I live by my rules!
So here I am, 10 years into my counselling career, working for myself with a healthy work/life balance.
I believe we can achieve anything if we have a strong desire for change!
My Counselling Qualifications
My Counselling Experience
I have supported clients who have struggled with:
- Anxiety
- Bereavement
- Cancer
- Depression
- Family issues
- Feeling sad
- Generalised anxiety disorder (GAD)
- Health anxiety
- Low self-confidence
- Low self-esteem
- Menopause
- Mental health
- Money
- Older people's counselling
- Redundancy
- Relationship problems
- Stress
- Trauma
- Work-related stress
In addition to my private practice, I'm an Associate Counsellor for an Employee Assistance program and a Counsellor for a local charity.
Previously, I have worked as an online Betterhelp counsellor using video counselling and instant messaging supporting clients across the UK.
My Specialised Experience
For the last 9 years, I have also provided a counselling service for a local charity who supports families impacted by cancer in the Coventry and Warwickshire area.
I have counselled adults whose lives have been devastated by cancer and the ripple effect a health diagnosis has on someone's life. I have counselled cancer patients and relatives and listened to their relationship issues, employment and finance struggles, damaged friendships and fear of the future.
I have also helped cancer patients work through their issues of cancer treatment, chronic fatigue, trauma, loss, body image, fear, worry, anxiety, low moods and depression.
During my training, I have counselled bereaved clients at a local hospice which introduced me to working with grief and bereavement. I have also counselled clients at Mind with presenting issues to include anxiety, stress, depression, self esteem, confidence, loss, bipolar disorder and PTSD.
My Ongoing Development
Ongoing personal development is important in my profession, these are some recent courses I have completed:
- Understanding Autism.
- How menopause impacts the brain.
- The Menopause and Mental Health.
- Menopausal symptoms and cancer treatment.
- Trauma, healing and hope: An identity-conscious approach to resilience.
- Trauma awareness.
- LGBTQ+ People and Cancer.