Julia has been working as a psychotherapist for twenty years. Alongside her private practice, she has worked for the NHS, in Higher Education, and for charitable counselling services.

She has a particular expertise in working with pregnancy loss and infertility. She has been a Trustee of the Miscarriage Association and is currently a member of its Health Professional Panel. She also ran support groups for the charity, and manages its directory of specialist talking therapists. Her first book, The Brink of Being: Talking about Miscarriage won the British Medical Association Popular Medicine Book Award 2021 and was the runner-up for the British Psychological Society Book Award 2021. It was published in the UK, USA, Romania and Thailand.

Her second book, Everyone’s A Critic, explores the universal phenomenon of self-criticism. It was published in the UK, Mexico, Middle East, Romania, China and Poland. Her writing has been published in The Times, The Sunday Times, The New York Times, Psychology Today, and she reviews books for The Times Literary Supplement. She is currently working on another book exploring the habit of ‘therapy speak.’

As well as her clinical work, Julia supervises counsellors and psychotherapists, sits on the Adjudication Panel of the UKCP’s complaint and conduct process, and examines communication skills of senior doctors of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. She trains professionals about the psychological impact of pregnancy loss and infertility.

Before psychotherapy, Julia practised as a solicitor having studied and taught law. She has a BA Hons Juris from Oxford University and LLM from Kings College, London University as well as an MA in Integrative Psychotherapy and Counselling from Middlesex University.

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