Julia Fixsen
Julia Fixsen (she/her) is a Registered Therapeutic Counsellor (#3132) with the Association of Cooperative Counselling Therapists
Through my experience and training, I have come to know that all people need a place where they can feel heard and supported. I offer a kind, compassionate, inclusive space for you along your counselling journey. I help my clients heal from trauma, repair relationships, and find a deeper and more meaningful connection to their lives.
When you work with me, you will learn how to identify and manage your emotions and understand how this affects your body. Often when clients have experienced trauma and feel strong emotions like anxiety, depression, and anger, they tend to disconnect from their bodies as a way of escaping the pain they are feeling. I help my clients to understand what is happening in their body, how that is directly related to their emotions and how this shows up in their relationships with themselves and others. Through this awareness, my clients are able to identify their unhealthy patterns and coping mechanisms, have more self-compassion, and a greater sense of peace. They feel more empowered to move forward in their lives as their relationships improve and they rediscover their own wisdom for healing and growth.
Areas of counselling expertise:
-Anxiety (General Anxiety, Worry, Perfectionism)
Depression (Feeling stuck, Loss of interest in life, Sadness)
Trauma (Abuse, Loss)
Teens (Trauma, Self-harm, Disordered Eating, Anxiety, Depression)
Chronic Illness (Pain, Medical Trauma, Depression, Isolation, Anxiety)
I also have a special interest in working with disordered eating recovery, body confidence, self-esteem, body image, self-acceptance.
My counselling approach is trauma informed and client centred. Through mindfulness and with a strength-based lens, my goal is to help you find relief from your distress and gain new tools to achieve the results you desire personally and relationally.
I use a trauma informed, integrative approach that draws on many modalities that are uniquely suited to the needs of each individual client, which include:
Somatic Experiencing,
Brainspotting, Mindfulness, Spiritual Counselling,
Narrative Therapy,
Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT), and
Hypnotherapy
