Julie Humphries Psychotherapy | Online Psychotherapist in London

Online Psychotherapy for Individuals and Couples

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About Me

I am a couple and individual psychotherapist registered with the British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC). I have completed three clinical trainings over seven years at Tavistock Relationships (an operating unit of The Tavistock Institute for Medical Psychology) and have over fifteen years experience providing therapy to couples and individuals from young adults to older people in later life. As well as my years of experience, I bring compassion, kindness and empathy to my work and am committed to providing a non- judgemental and supportive place, where you will be met with sensitivity and acceptance. In addition to working in private practice, I also work with Harley Therapy, and teach and supervise on psychotherapy trainings in London.

My Background

Until the end of 2022, I was Director of Training at Tavistock Relationships, the world leading training organisation in couple psychoanalytic psychotherapy. I worked at TR for over 10 years, and during that time taught, trained and supervised many students. I also delivered Mentalisation Based Therapy to couples presenting with high conflict; trained and supervised on an IAPT, Couple Therapy for Depression project and jointly set up and led the Department of Education funded Adopting Together Service which supported the couple relationship of parents who had adopted or had children placed with them.

Before training as a psychotherapist, I was a university lecturer in Sociology. Consequently, I bring an understanding of how we have been shaped and influenced by the culture and society that we live in, and the pressures and discriminations that we can face.

Therapies Offered

I offer analytic psychotherapy to both individuals and couples. Whether you are seeking it for yourself, or with your partner, psychotherapy aims to help provide relief from difficult feelings or emotional suffering, at the same time as working towards understanding yourself and others for long term and deep seated change. Our past relationships and experiences influence us, and how we experience our adult life is shaped by these experiences, however, they do not determine us. Psychotherapy can help us feel less troubled and burdened by our difficulties and more able to cope with life. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy has a strong and expanding evidence base (see British Psychoanalytic Council’s website to find out more) in helping people not only find relief from distress but also of making considerable improvement long after the therapy has ended. I am based in London and offer online psychotherapy sessions via Zoom.

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Individual Psychotherapy

Most people can benefit at some time in their lives from therapy – you may be seeking it for a specific difficulty you want help with, or you might be experiencing a generalised feeling of unhappiness, pain or distress. Individual therapy can help with a variety of difficulties and problems such as coping with depression, anxiety and stress, struggling to finding meaning in life, a sense of feeling lost, or feeling you have reached a crossroads and not sure where to go next. Individual therapy helps you to understand more about what might be underlying these feelings; how for example your past and childhood have influenced you and what relationship patterns might be being repeated. The aim of therapy is to help you to change these patterns, and to create a more fulfilling life.

I have many years of experience of working with individual clients with a range of emotional problems including dissatisfaction with life or relationships, depression and anxiety, confusion around gender or sexuality, grief and loss, and the impact of long term illness and retirement. I also offer relationship therapy for those who wish to attend on their own. It might be that you are going through a painful break up or divorce, or that you want to explore a difficulty in forming intimate relationships

Couple Psychotherapy

Couple therapy provides an opportunity to help break cycles that can feel very stuck, and to improve both the communication and intimacy between you and your partner. I have extensive experience helping couples who come to therapy either with a specific difficulty they are struggling with, or are perhaps feeling overwhelmed by the problems between them. Just some of the issues that I can assist with are; struggles around parenting, the birth of a new baby, illness, infertility, problems in the sexual relationship, infidelity, anger and conflict that feels out of control, extended family problems, or difficulties in later life.

I can also, when needed, help couples to separate better, in a less conflictual and hostile way. For the relationship/marriage that is ending, therapy can provide a space to process the feelings to end the relationship in as positive a way possible. It provides a space to talk about the feelings of anger, sadness, hurt and guilt that are often present. If you have children whether young or older, couple therapy can help with the transition of a couple relationship to one where you find a way to parent together and even remain a family.

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Julie's Qualifications

BA Social Science; MSc Research Methods; MA Film and TV
PGDip Couple and Individual Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy (UEL/Tavistock Relationships) BACP
MA Couple Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (UEL/Tavistock Relationships) BPC
Individual Psychodynamic Psychotherapy (Tavistock Relationships) BPC
Further trainings include: Mentalization Based Therapy; Post Qualifying Certificate in Psychoanalytic Supervision

Selected Publications

1995 Domestic Violence and Child Contact: Children Living with Domestic Violence. A Mullender and R. Morley (with Hester, Radford, Woodfield, Quaiser and Pearson) Whiting and Birch

1995 Child Contact and Domestic Violence (with Hester, Radford, Woodfield): The Magistrate, November 1995 Vol. 51. No.9

1997 For the Sake of the Children - The Law, Domestic Violence and Child
Contact in England (with Hester, Radford, Woodfield), Women’s Studies International Forum 1997 – Vol. 20.No.4.

1999 Listening to Women: Research with Women in Special Hospitals. Criminal Justice Matters, No 37, Autumn

2015 Working in the Presence of Unconscious Couple Beliefs’. Couple and Family Psychoanalysis, Vol 5, No 1, Spring 2015

2015 Couple Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Violent Couples: Understanding and working with domestic violence (with D McCann) Couple and Family Psychoanalysis, Vol 5, No 2, Autumn 2015

2017 Couples who Adopt: A Guide to Helping Adoptive Couples (with K Glausius). Practitioner Guide

2018 ‘Adopting Together’ (with K Glausius) in Engaging Couples: New Directions in Therapeutic work with Families, Routledge

2018 ‘Melancholic Reactions to Loss in Couples and Families’ (with K Glausius) International Review of Couples and Families in Couple and Family Psychoanalysis

Fees & availability

I am based in London and work online only, via Zoom a secure platform. Sessions are 50 minutes. Please contact me for further information on fees and terms and conditions.

Please note: I do not currently have any vacancies.

Get in touch

Feel free to contact me if you have any questions about how psychotherapy works, or to arrange an initial assessment appointment. This enables us to discuss the reasons you are thinking of coming to psychotherapy, whether it could be helpful for you and whether I am the right therapist to help.

All enquires are usually answered within 24 hours, and all contact is strictly confidential.

Please note: I do not currently have any vacancies.