Julie Ridlington

I have availability online (UK and Europe) and in person in Brighton.

You might feel a low ache beneath your days, the whisper of Is this it? A distance between the life you’re living and the one you imagined. Other times, it’s undeniable—a relationship ending, the world shifting, the familiar falling away. A discomfort you can’t outrun.

You don’t have to stay stuck. Change begins with understanding. And understanding begins when you’re truly heard.

Therapy isn’t about fixing you—because you were never broken. It’s about reconnecting you to yourself, quieting the noise, and making space for something different, that includes possibility and potential.

Do any of these sound familiar?

• You’re in a relationship that lacks depth or nourishment.

• You want children but are facing unexpected challenges.

• You feel stuck in a career that no longer feels like yours.

• You feel disconnected from the richness of life.

• You’re navigating the complexities of a blended family, far from the vision you once held.

• You’re carrying the weight of others’ expectations—and your own.

These experiences hold grief, longing, uncertainty. They may also bring a quiet but persistent anxiety—an ongoing tension, a sense of waiting for something to shift.

How Therapy Can Help

• Understand where you are, what you long for, and what’s possible when life doesn’t look the way you expected.

• Ease anxiety & overwhelm –

• Heal relationship struggles – Explore patterns, set boundaries, and build deeper, more fulfilling connections.

• Move through grief & disappointment – Process loss—not just of people, but of dreams, identities, and the life you imagined.

I offer online sessions as well as in person sessions in Brighton. I offer a therapeutic space where you will be able to talk in confidence and have the time to just be with your feelings and thoughts. I come with warmth, empathy and gentle challenge.

A space for your Story

I invite you to bring your whole story — the parts you’re proud of and the parts you’ve been taught to hide. The benefit of this work is the freedom to see yourself differently — to shift out of shame, release that sense of “something must be wrong with me,” and begin to understand yourself with compassion and clarity.

Inclusivity

My practice is LGBTQ+ affirming and rooted in an awareness of structural oppressions — racism, patriarchy, ableism, the class system, capitalism, and the systems that harm both people and the Earth.

My Qualifications

I have over a decade’s experience working with clients who bring their unique stories, agonies, pains and more often than you think, their joys.

Advanced Diploma in the Application of the Arts in Therapy and Education

Diploma in Integrative Counselling

Diploma in Integrative Psychotherapy

We might start to look at your past and how it might be impacting you now. We might begin to notice what is happening in your body, so if you are anxious we can look at ways of bringing your anxiety to more tolerable levels.

Working soulfully is working in a way that includes all of you, mind, body and soul. Soul can look like the things we often overlook, whispers, daydreams, images, night dreams, hunches, whims, the song rattling around your head. It might not make sense but it will often have something deeply meaningful to say.

Perhaps you will need a few sessions to get something off your chest. Perhaps you want to look at how you are in relationships and will need more sessions to fathom that out and see lasting change. However long you want to come, we will be working together, collaboratively, with your best interests in heart and mind.

https://www.julieridlingtontherapy.com

What will it be like?

We might begin with what brings you to therapy—loss, confusion, an ache you can’t quite name. It’s okay not to have the words yet. Therapy helps you find them. No need to prepare or plan. Honestly, come as you are.

Next Steps

We can set up a time for an initial session either online or in person in Brighton if that works for you. An initial session is a paid for 50-minute session. You will get a sense of what therapy with me is like. If you wish to proceed, we can meet weekly at the same time in a slot reserved for you.

Please don't hesitate to contact me with any questions, large or small.

If you would like to know more about my approach before you book a session, I offer a fifteen-minute Zoom or phone call for free at a mutually arranged time. 

I offer therapy for anxiety, relationship struggles, and life transitions — both online throughout the UK and in person in Brighton. I currently have weekday availability, with some flexibility around lunchtime and early evenings. Whether you're nearby or connecting from elsewhere, we can find a rhythm that works for you.

You’re not falling apart, exactly — but something doesn’t feel right.

Maybe you’re approaching a milestone birthday, feeling lost in a relationship that no longer fits, or wondering how life turned out so different from what you imagined.

You might carry a hum of anxiety — shaped by the state of the world, the future, or a quiet panic about time slipping by.

You don’t need to be in crisis to ask for help. The discomfort you’re feeling is a signal — not a failure.

You might not call it trauma, but you feel:

• Stuck in a job, relationship, or pattern

• Anxious about the future or time slipping by

• Lonely even in company

• Ashamed for wanting more

• Panicked beneath the surface, wondering if you’re running out of time to “figure things out”

I work with thoughtful, sensitive adults navigating in-between places — life transitions, emotional crossroads, and the ache of questions without easy answers.

Therapy with me isn’t about fixing you. It’s about reconnecting to your inner steadiness and creating space for a new way of being.

Is This It?

You may have imagined a clearer path — a fulfilling career, a deep relationship, a sense of belonging. Instead, you find yourself sitting with questions, regrets, or grief for the life you didn’t live. There’s a quiet ache beneath the surface — a longing for something more, even if you’re not sure what more is.

Maybe you’re:

• Wanting children but facing unexpected challenges

• Stuck in a career that no longer feels like yours

• In relationships that lack the nourishment your heart craves

• Feeling disconnected — from yourself, others, or life itself

• Navigating the reality of a family that doesn’t match the dream

• Carrying the weight of expectations — from others, or from yourself

These are not small feelings. They matter. Therapy offers a space to stop, breathe, and listen to what’s stirring beneath the surface.

Over time, we can unpack what’s brought you here, explore the meaning in the mess and the quiet, and gently begin shaping what comes next.

I offer soulful, depth-oriented therapy for adults navigating anxiety, relationship struggles, and life transitions. Many of the people I work with find themselves in emotional crossroads or quiet crises — stuck in old patterns, facing uncertainty, or quietly wondering, Is this really it?

My approach is rooted in depth psychotherapy and psychodynamic thinking. This means we may explore the deeper patterns shaping your experience — including questions of identity, meaning, loss, and becoming. We might look at your past and how it impacts your present, or notice what’s happening in your body, especially if you’re living with anxiety or inner tension.

Working soulfully means welcoming all of you — mind, body, and soul. Soul can show up in overlooked places: dreams, hunches, images, daydreams, a song that won’t leave your head. These fragments often hold something meaningful to say, even when they don’t make immediate sense.

Clients often describe me as calm, thoughtful, and attuned. I won’t give advice or push for quick fixes. Instead, I’ll offer a steady, grounded space where we can explore what matters most to you — gently and collaboratively, at a pace that feels right.

Whether you need short-term support or a longer, deeper process, we’ll work together with care and curiosity.

Inclusivity

My practice is LGBTQ+ affirming and grounded in an awareness of structural oppression — including racism, patriarchy, ableism, classism, capitalism, and the systems that harm both people and the Earth.

I work online and in person in Brighton. If you're ready for depth, you're in the right place.

Qualifications

Advanced Diploma in the Application of the Arts in Therapy and Education

Diploma in Integrative Counselling

Diploma in Integrative Psychotherapy

www.julieridlingtontherapy.com

What Will It Be Like?

We might begin with what brings you to therapy — a loss, confusion, or an ache you can’t quite name. It’s okay not to have the words yet. Therapy helps you find them. There’s no need to prepare or plan. Honestly, just come as you are.

You’ll be met with care, curiosity, and no judgement. There’s no pressure to tell your whole story at once. We’ll go at your pace — gently exploring what feels important, and leaving space for things to unfold over time. Sometimes therapy can feel emotional, sometimes it brings relief, and sometimes it just helps to say something out loud to someone who’s not in your day-to-day life.

Next Steps

We can arrange a time for an initial 50-minute session, either online or in person in Brighton. This is a paid session and gives you a sense of what therapy with me is like. If it feels like a good fit, we’ll continue with weekly sessions at the same time each week — a steady space that’s just for you.

Online therapy offers the same depth and care as in-person work, with the added ease of meeting from your own space. Many clients find it surprisingly intimate and flexible.

Therapy is a commitment, but it doesn’t have to feel heavy. You’re not signing up for years — just a beginning. Many people find that even a short time in therapy brings more clarity, steadiness, and space to breathe.

If you’d like to speak before booking, I offer a free 20-minute Zoom or phone call so we can get a feel for one another. You’re welcome to ask questions or just see how it feels to connect.

Please don’t hesitate to reach out with any questions — big or small. I'm happy to help.

I offer online therapy (UK and Europe) and in-person therapy in Brighton.

You might feel a low ache beneath your days, the whisper of Is this it? A distance between the life you’re living and the one you imagined. Other times, it’s undeniable—a relationship ending, the world shifting, the familiar falling away. A discomfort you can’t outrun.

You don’t have to stay stuck. Change begins with understanding. And understanding begins when you’re truly heard.

Therapy isn’t about fixing you—because you were never broken. It’s about reconnecting you to yourself, quieting the noise, and making space for something different, that includes possibility and potential.

Do any of these sound familiar?

• You’re in a relationship that lacks depth or nourishment.

• You want children but are facing unexpected challenges.

• You feel stuck in a career that no longer feels like yours.

• You feel disconnected from the richness of life.You are overwhelmed by global politics, the well-being of the planet

• You’re navigating the complexities of a blended family, far from the vision you once held.

• You’re carrying the weight of others’ expectations—and your own.

A persistent, underlying sense that things aren’t right.

These experiences hold grief, longing, uncertainty. They may also bring a quiet but persistent anxiety—an ongoing tension, a sense of waiting for something to shift.

How Therapy Can Help

• Understand where you are, what you long for, and what’s possible when life doesn’t look the way you expected.

• Ease anxiety & overwhelm –

• Heal relationship struggles – Explore patterns, set boundaries, and build deeper, more fulfilling connections.

• Move through grief & disappointment – Process loss—not just of people, but of dreams, identities, and the life you imagined.

Therapy is a place to be seen and heard, to understand the deeper stories behind your feelings, and to find ways to live more peacefully alongside them.

I offer online sessions as well as in person sessions in Brighton.  I offer a therapeutic space where you will be able to talk in confidence and have the time to just be with your feelings and thoughts. I come with warmth, empathy and gentle challenge.

A space for your Story

I invite you to bring your whole story — the parts you’re proud of and the parts you’ve been taught to hide. The benefit of this work is the freedom to see yourself differently — to shift out of shame, release that sense of “something must be wrong with me,” and begin to understand yourself with compassion and clarity.

Inclusivity

My practice is LGBTQ+ affirming and rooted in an awareness of structural oppressions — racism, patriarchy, ableism, the class system, capitalism, and the systems that harm both people and the Earth.

My Qualifications

I have over a decade’s experience working with clients who bring their unique stories, agonies, pains and more often than you think, their joys. 

Advanced Diploma in the Application of the Arts in Therapy and Education

Diploma in Integrative Counselling

Diploma in Integrative Psychotherapy

We might start to look at your past and how it might be impacting you now. We might begin to notice what is happening in your body, so if you are anxious we can look at ways of bringing your anxiety to more tolerable levels.

Working soulfully is working in a way that includes all of you, mind, body and soul. Soul can look like the things we often overlook, whispers, daydreams, images, night dreams, hunches, whims, the song rattling around your head. It might not make sense but it will often have something deeply meaningful to say. 

Perhaps you will need a few sessions to get something off your chest. Perhaps you want to look at how you are in relationships and will need more sessions to fathom that out and see lasting change. However long you want to come, we will be working together, collaboratively, with your best interests in heart and mind.

https://www.julieridlingtontherapy.com

What will it be like?

We might begin with what brings you to therapy—loss, confusion, an ache you can’t quite name. It’s okay not to have the words yet. Therapy helps you find them. No need to prepare or plan. Honestly, come as you are.

Next Steps

We can arrange a time for an initial session either online or in person in Brighton. An initial session is a paid for 50-minute session. You will get a sense of what therapy with me is like. If you wish to proceed, we can meet weekly at the same time in a slot reserved for you.

Please don't hesitate to contact me with any questions, large or small.

If you would like to know more about my approach before you book a session, I offer a fifteen minute Zoom or phone call, for free, at a mutually arranged time. 

You might feel a low ache beneath your days, the whisper of Is this it? A distance between the life you’re living and the one you imagined. Other times, it’s undeniable—a relationship ending, the world shifting, the familiar falling away. A discomfort you can’t outrun.

You don’t have to stay stuck. Change begins with understanding. And understanding begins when you’re truly heard.

Therapy isn’t about fixing you—because you were never broken. It’s about reconnecting you to yourself, quieting the noise, and making space for something different, that includes possibility and potential.

Do any of these sound familiar?

• You’re in a relationship that lacks depth or nourishment.

• You want children but are facing unexpected challenges.

• You feel stuck in a career that no longer feels like yours.

• You feel disconnected from the richness of life.You are overwhelmed by global politics, the well-being of the planet

• You’re navigating the complexities of a blended family, far from the vision you once held.

• You’re carrying the weight of others’ expectations—and your own.

• A persistent, underlying sense that things aren’t right.

These experiences hold grief, longing, uncertainty. They may also bring a quiet but persistent anxiety—an ongoing tension, a sense of waiting for something to shift.

How Therapy Can Help

• Understand where you are, what you long for, and what’s possible when life doesn’t look the way you expected.

• Ease anxiety & overwhelm –

• Heal relationship struggles – Explore patterns, set boundaries, and build deeper, more fulfilling connections.

• Move through grief & disappointment – Process loss—not just of people, but of dreams, identities, and the life you imagined.

Therapy is a place to be seen and heard, to understand the deeper stories behind your feelings, and to find ways to live more peacefully alongside them.

How We’ll Work Together

I offer online sessions as well as in-person therapy in Brighton. My approach is warm, engaged, and attuned. I listen deeply. I challenge gently.

Therapy isn’t just about talking—it’s about noticing, feeling, and uncovering what has been waiting for your attention.

A Space for Your Story

I invite you to bring your whole self—the parts you celebrate and the parts you’ve learned to hide. Through this work, you can move out of shame, release the belief that something must be wrong with me, and begin to see yourself with clarity and compassion.

An Inclusive, Aware Practice

My work is LGBTQ+ affirming and rooted in an awareness of the systems that shape our lives—whether patriarchy, racism, capitalism, ableism, or other forces that disconnect us from ourselves and each other. Whoever you are, whatever your story, you are welcome here.

My Experience & Approach

I have over a decade of experience working with people navigating the complexities of being human—not just their pain, but their joy.

• Advanced Diploma in the Application of the Arts in Therapy and Education

• Diploma in Integrative Counselling

• Diploma in Integrative Psychotherapy

Together, we might explore your past and how it shapes your present. We might notice how anxiety shows up in your body and find ways to soften its grip.

Working soulfully means working with all of you—mind, body, and soul. Soul speaks in whispers, in images, in hunches, in the song stuck in your head. These fragments may not make sense at first, but they often hold something vital.

Whether you need a few sessions to unburden yourself or a longer journey to shift deep patterns, we will work together—with care, curiosity, and honesty.

What will it be like?

We might begin with what brings you to therapy—loss, confusion, an ache you can’t quite name. It’s okay not to have the words yet. Therapy helps you find them. No need to prepare or plan. Honestly, come as you are.

Next Steps

We can arrange a time for an initial session either online or in person in Brighton. An initial session is a paid for 50-minute session. You will get a sense of what therapy with me is like. If you wish to proceed, we can meet weekly at the same time in a slot reserved for you.

Please don't hesitate to contact me with any questions, large or small.

If you would like to know more about my approach before you book a session, I offer a fifteen-minute Zoom or phone call for free at a mutually arranged time. 

I offer sessions online (UK and Europe) and in person in Brighton.

You might feel a low ache beneath your days, the whisper of Is this it? A distance between the life you’re living and the one you imagined. Other times, it’s undeniable—a relationship ending, the world shifting, the familiar falling away. A discomfort you can’t outrun.

You don’t have to stay stuck. Change begins with understanding. And understanding begins when you’re truly heard.

Therapy isn’t about fixing you—because you were never broken. It’s about reconnecting you to yourself, quieting the noise, and making space for something different, that includes possibility and potential.

Do any of these sound familiar?

• You’re in a relationship that lacks depth or nourishment.

• You want children but are facing unexpected challenges.

• You feel stuck in a career that no longer feels like yours.

• You feel disconnected from the richness of life.You are overwhelmed by global politics, the well-being of the planet

• You’re navigating the complexities of a blended family, far from the vision you once held.

• You’re carrying the weight of others’ expectations—and your own.

A persistent, underlying sense that things aren’t right.

These experiences hold grief, longing, uncertainty. They may also bring a quiet but persistent anxiety—an ongoing tension, a sense of waiting for something to shift.

How Therapy Can Help

• Understand where you are, what you long for, and what’s possible when life doesn’t look the way you expected.

• Ease anxiety & overwhelm –

• Heal relationship struggles – Explore patterns, set boundaries, and build deeper, more fulfilling connections.

• Move through grief & disappointment – Process loss—not just of people, but of dreams, identities, and the life you imagined.

Therapy is a place to be seen and heard, to understand the deeper stories behind your feelings, and to find ways to live more peacefully alongside them.

How We’ll Work Together

I offer online sessions as well as in-person therapy in Brighton. My approach is warm, engaged, and attuned. I listen deeply. I challenge gently.

Therapy isn’t just about talking—it’s about noticing, feeling, and uncovering what has been waiting for your attention.

A Space for Your Story

I invite you to bring your whole self—the parts you celebrate and the parts you’ve learned to hide. Through this work, you can move out of shame, release the belief that something must be wrong with me, and begin to see yourself with clarity and compassion.

An Inclusive, Aware Practice

My work is LGBTQ+ affirming and rooted in an awareness of the systems that shape our lives—whether patriarchy, racism, capitalism, ableism, or other forces that disconnect us from ourselves and each other. Whoever you are, whatever your story, you are welcome here.

My Experience & Approach

I have over a decade of experience working with people navigating the complexities of being human—not just their pain, but their joy.

• Advanced Diploma in the Application of the Arts in Therapy and Education

• Diploma in Integrative Counselling

• Diploma in Integrative Psychotherapy

Together, we might explore your past and how it shapes your present. We might notice how anxiety shows up in your body and find ways to soften its grip.

Working soulfully means working with all of you—mind, body, and soul. Soul speaks in whispers, in images, in hunches, in the song stuck in your head. These fragments may not make sense at first, but they often hold something vital.

Whether you need a few sessions to unburden yourself or a longer journey to shift deep patterns, we will work together—with care, curiosity, and honesty.

What will it be like?

We might begin with what brings you to therapy—loss, confusion, an ache you can’t quite name. It’s okay not to have the words yet. Therapy helps you find them. No need to prepare or plan. Honestly, come as you are.

Next Steps

We can arrange a time for an initial session either online or in person in Brighton. An initial session is a paid for 50-minute session. You will get a sense of what therapy with me is like. If you wish to proceed, we can meet weekly at the same time in a slot reserved for you.

Please don't hesitate to contact me with any questions, large or small.

If you would like to know more about my approach before you book a session, I offer a fifteen-minute Zoom or phone call for free at a mutually arranged time. 

I offer online therapy and in-person therapy in Brighton.

You might feel a low ache beneath your days, the whisper of Is this it? A distance between the life you’re living and the one you imagined. Other times, it’s undeniable—a relationship ending, the world shifting, the familiar falling away. A discomfort you can’t outrun.

You don’t have to stay stuck. Change begins with understanding. And understanding begins when you’re truly heard.

Therapy isn’t about fixing you—because you were never broken. It’s about reconnecting you to yourself, quieting the noise, and making space for something different, that includes possibility and potential.

Do any of these sound familiar?

• You’re in a relationship that lacks depth or nourishment.

• You want children but are facing unexpected challenges.

• You feel stuck in a career that no longer feels like yours.

• You feel disconnected from the richness of life.You are overwhelmed by global politics, the well-being of the planet

• You’re navigating the complexities of a blended family, far from the vision you once held.

• You’re carrying the weight of others’ expectations—and your own.

• A persistent, underlying sense that things aren’t right.
  

These experiences hold grief, longing, uncertainty. They may also bring a quiet but persistent anxiety—an ongoing tension, a sense of waiting for something to shift.

How Therapy Can Help

• Understand where you are, what you long for, and what’s possible when life doesn’t look the way you expected.

• Ease anxiety & overwhelm –

• Heal relationship struggles – Explore patterns, set boundaries, and build deeper, more fulfilling connections.

• Move through grief & disappointment – Process loss—not just of people, but of dreams, identities, and the life you imagined.

Therapy is a place to be seen and heard, to understand the deeper stories behind your feelings, and to find ways to live more peacefully alongside them.

I offer online sessions as well as in person sessions in Brighton. I offer a therapeutic space where you will be able to talk in confidence and have the time to just be with your feelings and thoughts. I come with warmth, empathy and gentle challenge.

A space for your Story

I invite you to bring your whole story — the parts you’re proud of and the parts you’ve been taught to hide. The benefit of this work is the freedom to see yourself differently — to shift out of shame, release that sense of “something must be wrong with me,” and begin to understand yourself with compassion and clarity.

Inclusivity

My practice is LGBTQ+ affirming and rooted in an awareness of structural oppressions — racism, patriarchy, ableism, the class system, capitalism, and the systems that harm both people and the Earth.

My Qualifications

I have over a decade’s experience working with clients who bring their unique stories, agonies, pains and more often than you think, their joys.

Advanced Diploma in the Application of the Arts in Therapy and Education

Diploma in Integrative Counselling

Diploma in Integrative Psychotherapy

We might start to look at your past and how it might be impacting you now. We might begin to notice what is happening in your body, so if you are anxious we can look at ways of bringing your anxiety to more tolerable levels.

Working soulfully is working in a way that includes all of you, mind, body and soul. Soul can look like the things we often overlook, whispers, daydreams, images, night dreams, hunches, whims, the song rattling around your head. It might not make sense but it will often have something deeply meaningful to say.

Perhaps you will need a few sessions to get something off your chest. Perhaps you want to look at how you are in relationships and will need more sessions to fathom that out and see lasting change. However long you want to come, we will be working together, collaboratively, with your best interests in heart and mind.

https://www.julieridlingtontherapy.com

What will it be like?

We might begin with what brings you to therapy—loss, confusion, an ache you can’t quite name. It’s okay not to have the words yet. Therapy helps you find them. No need to prepare or plan. Honestly, come as you are.

Next Steps

We can arrange a time for an initial session either online or in person in Brighton. An initial session is a paid for 50-minute session. You will get a sense of what therapy with me is like. If you wish to proceed, we can meet weekly at the same time in a slot reserved for you.

Please don't hesitate to contact me with any questions, large or small.

If you would like to know more about my approach before you book a session, I offer a fifteen minute Zoom or phone call, for free, at a mutually arranged time.