Julie Duguid
Registered Member, MHGI
Registration No. 160199
Email[email protected]
Websiteakindermind.com
About me
Would it feel supportive if someone else understood how difficult things are for you, without you needing to provide too much detail or life history? Would you love it if your struggles made sense? Let me help you understand what happened, what is happening and what needs to happen to gain and maintain the natural ebb and flow of wellbeing.
Our bodies work hard for us, they have a multitude of ways that help keep us safe in moments of stress and/or threat. As you are reading this, whatever you did or did not do in that moment worked, it has kept you alive, giving you this opportunity to learn to thrive!
Once those moments are over though, our brain starts the process of trying to understand what happened, often making conclusions about how to behave in the future in similar situations and what to believe about ourselves and others. What worked for us in the past, may now be what is getting in the way of a healthy life now. Let me help you understand what happened, what is happening and what needs to happen to gain and maintain the natural ebb and flow of wellbeing.
My aim, if you choose to work with me, is that you will leave each session feeling better than when you arrive, more hopeful and with more understanding. I work creatively and collaboratively and have helped hundreds of people move from confusion to understanding, from pain & panic to ease & compassion.
For me, being born into a family that was significantly affected by their own childhood trauma, having my own mental and physical health issues was inevitable. Whilst I waited on endless waiting lists, I started my own research to understand what was going on for me and rediscovered how much I loved learning. I chose to study to become my own therapist, with no intention of entering the profession and yet, for nearly 2 decades now, I have been using the learning from both study and self recovery to help others and maybe I can help you too!
Contact me via email: [email protected] or find out more about me on my website akindermind.com
It can often help to hear what others have to say, so please do take the time to read just some of my client’s experiences of working with me, it may be just what you need to help you start your journey.
Qualifications
Post Grad Diploma in Human Givens Pyschotherapy
Resonant Healing Practioner Certification
Diploma for weight management counselling
Professional Memberships
Human Givens Institute
Complex Trauma Institute
Testimonials
I was amazed at how quickly Julie understood the issues I was having, how she was able to put into words what I was struggling to articulate. Julie helped me make sense of myself, my thoughts and my behaviours. I finally understood it was not that something was wrong with me, it was that so much had happened to me, which was not fully processed and I needed compassionate support to complete those processes. Julie provided such a consistent sense of safety and understanding, which I will be forever grateful for as my life has changed in ways that I never used to think was possible.
I can’t believe how quickly and painlessly Julie helped me. After losing so many military colleagues and then a best friend to suicide, as a single parent to a son with ASD, I knew I needed to get help. For nearly 5 years, I tried several different counselling services and never really noticed any change, sleep disturbance was a big issue. I started work with a new company and applied for support from their EAP wellness service and was matched to Julie and what a match it was. Julie’s ability to share her understanding of PTSD and the human response to trauma was so supportive in that first session. Julie sent me a recording which I used that night and I slept for the first time in a long time and continued to sleep each night after, which was the positive upward spiral Julie said it would be. This allowed enough capacity for the trauma reprocessing and the changes in me have even improved my son's ASD, now I get calls from the school about how well he is doing, rather than calls to come and collect him!
Julie really helped normalise the difficulties I was having in the second year of grief after the death of my partner to cancer. The support system I had leaned into for the first year, seemed to change and expected that I would just be fine now, yet Julie seemed to understand the continued difficulties. I had not realised I was Neurodiverse, but once we explored the possibility, so much of my life and continued challenges made sense. Living in America, I am so grateful Julie works online and accommodates the time zone difference. Therapy is different here and I really appreciate Julie’s flexible and needs focused approach, which helps me feel seen, understood and supported.
My continued gratitude to Julie is beyond words. I had been having side effects from the various medications I had been prescribed for my anxiety and sleep issues. A few sessions with Julie helped me understand how my childhood trauma was reappearing in my present life. Julie’s knowledge and clear way of explaining things helped me separate past from present, this significantly reduced my anxiety, which helped my sleep. We were then able to start the trauma reprocessing which reduced my anxiety even further. Later, when I faced another period of significant life challenges, I reached out to Julie and yet again in just a few sessions, I was able to find more stability and start rebuilding my life and new ways to meet needs. Julie even wrote specific stories I was able to read to my daughter at bedtime, to help her understand and process the changes in our life too.
Julie is unique, I had almost given up on counselling and can say that our sessions have helped me in more ways than I can possibly name in a few short sentences. I started working with Julie through the Military charity PTSD Resolutions and once those funded sessions were over, I knew I needed to find the money to continue the work we had started, Julie was supportive with that too. My trauma is complex and is rooted in childhood and exacerbated by my time in the military, yet Julie finds such creative ways to help me understand and move through life’s continual challenges. I no longer rely on substances and my sense of self is developing and I can finally see a life that I want to live.
