Julie-Marie Holiday

Friday evening only face to face Russell Square Bloomsbury 

Monday, Tuesday Online evening available 5.30pm - 8pm

Weekend please inquire 

August summer holidays not available. 

Integrative Psychotherapist 

10 years experience working for National Organisation Specialising in Substance Misuse and mental health London 

My role is to support and manage a team of counsellors across London Boroughs. Practice with complex clients from difficult backgrounds. Alongside delivery of Psychological interventions. 

I work with a person's presenting issues, adapting theoretical models to suit the requirements of issues. No ne one way suits everyone  'everyone is unique from their lived experience' so having studied MA Psychotherapy & Counselling, Dip CBT, Dip Therapeutic Counselling and MBCT widens the application. 

Having worked with many adults with

depression, anxiety, negative thoughts self-doubt, low self-esteem and worth, self-harm, EUPD,  bipolar, PTSD, Schizophrenia, psychosis, ADHD, addiction, relationship difficulties, intimacy, emotional eatin, loss of loved one, loss of job, loss of purpose, Suicidal ideation and Suicidal intentions. Historical sexual abuse, rape and D.V. 

If you are struggling to live a peaceful healthy life book one session and take it from there. 

Private Practice 

Russell Square, Bloomsbury

Set in an idyllic surroundings overlooking Russell Square Park and Garden

Book for a one off session, in this session we together are able to develop from the issues presenting a way forward to identify the reasons and cause of stress impacting your life. 

This can also establish the right steps for you to move forward with therapy. It is important for you to feel a therapeutic relationship has developed, to enable you to feel safe and listened to! It may be short term therapy or long term therapy. The importance is for you to identify and establish your needs and tailor this to suit you. 

I have many qualifications that helped me to tailor the therapy to suit the individual, from working in CBT framework when anxiety and depression are causing stress related issues. To build a case formulation to identify the issues and root cause. Together working out a structure to ease the stress and develop new mental ways of thinking positively. 

Working integrative way building a therapeutic relationship which will in time evident the reasons for therapy. This may be going back to childhood, looking at the cause and effect of lived experience. Looking at learnt behaviour that helped survival mode. Making sense of stress can give a whole new perspective and acceptance. This enables a way of allowing self to let go and be free. Experiencing a new sense of peacefulness and hope.

Being mindful of self, psychological, emotional or physiological can bring about strength and compassion. Knowing who you are will allow you to create boundaries, build self-esteem, confidence and positive belief systems. This will help positive growth moving forward and give a sense of peace.

I do offer a psychological assessment. This will be for one hour. It will identify the areas of difficulty and look at the right steps for you to move forward. It will help to establish the right therapy for you. 

I may use psychological tools to explore and give a more in depth understanding of the areas which are causing internal conflict or behaviour issues, identify where these manifested. 

It is important to look at the bigger picture, in this sense I mean - the whole person - life experience can bring past issues that have caused many difficult problematic states which have developed and manifested over many years. Sometimes life is complicated and mental thinking can cause negative internal conflict. 

The psychological assessment will help you to identify the issues, the cause and the right step to move forward.

Please inquire 

Practiced Clinical Supervision for 5 years. My role is counselling coordinator for a National Substance and mental health service.

I manage counsellors and students around London Borough who are volunteering on on a placement as part of their course. 

I encourage autonomy and support self development, alongside encouraging safe and professional practice. 

Since 2014 I have practiced in Substance Misuse and Mental Health. Recently I was approached to start Private Practice in Russell Square. I will be offering Clinical Supervision alongside therapy. 

Given COVID has adapted work life, I can also offer Teams, if face to face is difficult due to travel. This, I can and willing to offer a reduced fee. Please inquire.

One off session to assess working relationship, suitability and connection. It is highly important to feel safe and have a sense of relatability moving forward.