About Judith
Judith "Jude" Holland offers calm, practical support for people facing relationship strains, grief, trauma and big life changes. She keeps the focus on what matters to each person and looks for simple, usable steps to make day-to-day life feel steadier. Jude writes plainly and works at the pace someone can handle.
She is BACP registered and has 27 years of professional experience in the UK. Jude draws on somatic ideas alongside talking therapies to help people reconnect with their bodies and feel safer in themselves.
Background and approach
She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and attachment-based ways of working to support clearer values, stronger boundaries and kinder self-talk. Sessions are shaped around the person sitting in front of her, not a fixed programme. Her background includes work in sexual assault services for the NHS and leadership roles in education and adult learning.
That experience has involved supporting people after sexual trauma, and helping those with mood disorders such as bipolar and emotionally driven difficulties. She has also worked with people navigating addictions, eating and sleeping problems, and the practical fallout from chronic illness. Jude describes herself as a counsellor and coach who values respect, challenge and collaboration.
She aims to create a space where people feel heard and can try new ways of coping. Therapy may include body-focused exercises, skills practice and conversations about patterns that keep someone stuck. Sessions are offered in English and can be arranged for people living in the United Kingdom or internationally.
Online formats include video calls, phone, live chat and text-based messaging, with a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
How somatic and values-based approaches work online
Jude combines somatic-informed work with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and attachment-based ideas to help people feel steadier in their bodies and clearer about what matters to them. Somatic-informed work pays attention to bodily sensations and gentle grounding exercises to reduce overwhelm and support regulation. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then taking value-guided actions that matter to the person. Attachment-based approaches look at relationship patterns and help people build safer, more dependable connections with others.Choosing the right approach is part of the journey. Jude will talk with each person about their needs, goals and preferences, and together they will decide which methods to try and when to adapt them. That collaborative process helps ensure therapy stays relevant and useful as issues change.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to fit different lives and comfort levels. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and travel, while still allowing practical exercises, body-aware techniques and skills practice to be delivered effectively. Registered or accredited professionals like Jude can use these options to keep continuity of care and flexibility for clients.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Hypnotherapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English