- Stress and anxiety
- Grief and loss
- Attachment work
About Trudie
Trudie Johnston is a registered counsellor in the United Kingdom with six years' experience working with adults. She has practised in private and clinical settings and began supporting people as a bereavement volunteer before training as a counsellor. Trudie works with concerns including stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem and life changes. She also helps with relationship and family difficulties, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related issues, anger, career questions and depression.
Her first training was in person-centred counselling, which remains a foundation of her work. Since then she has trained further in Attachment, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and psychodynamic ideas, and she uses different theories together to suit each person. Sessions are conversational and focus on what a person brings and what matters to them now.
Trudie speaks from direct experience of having had counselling herself, so she understands how hard the first step can feel. In early meetings she listens to immediate concerns, practical pressures and the personal history that links to current struggles. She aims to help people notice patterns, manage strong feelings and try small changes between sessions.
Her additional focus areas include abandonment, ageing and geriatric issues, attachment problems, body image, cancer and caregiver stress. Trudie also works with chronic pain, co-morbidity, codependency, dissociation, divorce and separation, guilt and end-of-life and hospice-related concerns.
Sessions are offered in English and follow her BACP and NCPS registrations. If someone wishes to proceed they are asked to use the site process to complete a short matching questionnaire and book an initial session.
How therapeutic approaches are used in online sessions
Attachment-based work focuses on patterns in close relationships and how early experiences shape current reactions. In practice this means noticing how someone connects or distances from others and looking at small changes to reduce old patterns that cause pain.Client-centred work keeps the person and their experience at the centre of sessions. The counsellor listens, reflects and follows what the person brings so they can make sense of difficult feelings and decide what matters next.
Cognitive behavioural approaches look at thoughts, feelings and behaviours that maintain distress. This can involve testing unhelpful thoughts, trying behavioural experiments, and building practical coping skills for anxiety, low mood or stress.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The counsellor will discuss options with each person and agree together which methods suit their needs, goals and preferences. Decisions are revisited as progress unfolds so the approach can change if needed.
The biography does not list specific session formats, so please confirm current online options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit appointments into a busy week, reduce travel time and allow shorter check-ins when needed. Some people prefer sessions with video, while others choose audio-only meetings for lower bandwidth or a less visual experience; the counsellor can discuss practical arrangements when you schedule.
Areas of expertise
Also works with
Additional focus areas
Therapeutic approaches
Experience
6+ years
Listed in
United Kingdom
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of problems does she help with?
She works with adults on stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, relationship and family matters, trauma and abuse, intimacy issues, anger, career questions and depression.
How would she describe her therapeutic style?
She uses a person-centred way of working alongside attachment ideas, cognitive behavioural approaches and psychodynamic thinking to respond to what each person brings.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has six years of counselling experience in both private practice and clinical settings, plus prior experience as a bereavement support volunteer.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She is registered with BACP and NCPS and practises in the United Kingdom.
Are sessions offered in other languages or internationally?
Sessions are offered in English. International clients are not currently accepted.
What session formats are available?
The original biography does not specify session formats. Please confirm the current session options before booking.
How is cost handled for sessions?
Cost varies with location and sessions are delivered via a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I begin if I want to meet her?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a first session through the site process.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If you are in danger, use the crisis numbers.