Julie McClorey

My hours of work are 

Monday 10am - 7pm

Tuesday 10am - 5pm

Wednesday - unavailable 

Thursday - 10am - 7pm

Friday 10am - 4pm

Weekends - unavailable 

You may look as though you’re coping on the outside, but inside things feel much harder than anyone realises.

Perhaps you’re constantly worrying about getting things wrong, putting everyone else first or carrying an inner critic that never seems to switch off. Maybe food has become a comfort, a battle or a way of coping. You might feel exhausted by trying to hold everything together while wondering why life seems so much easier for everyone else.

Many of the people I work with arrive believing there is something wrong with them.

Over the years, I’ve come to notice that although people seek therapy for different reasons, there is often a common thread running beneath their struggles. They have spent years blaming themselves for the ways they have coped, without ever considering that those coping strategies may once have made perfect sense.

Rather than asking, “What’s wrong with you?”, I gently help people explore “What happened to you?” and “What have you had to do to survive?”

I don’t believe you’re broken or need fixing.

Together we’ll make sense of your experiences with curiosity rather than criticism and compassion instead of shame. As we begin to understand where patterns have come from, they often start to lose their power.

My approach is warm, collaborative and tailored to you. I draw on a range of therapeutic approaches because no two people are the same. Therapy isn’t about fitting you into a model; it’s about finding what helps you feel understood, supported and able to move forwards.

I work with adults experiencing a range of emotional and psychological difficulties, with particular interest in:

• binge eating and emotional eating

• body image difficulties

• people-pleasing

• perfectionism

• low self-worth

• anxiety

• trauma and its lasting impact

• self-criticism

• difficult childhood experiences

• relationship difficulties

Many of these experiences are closely connected. It’s not unusual for someone to come to therapy because of binge eating and discover that underneath sits years of feeling not good enough. Equally, someone may seek support for anxiety before recognising how much pressure they’ve always placed on themselves.

Alongside my professional training, I also bring personal understanding of how powerful shame and self-criticism can be. This allows me to meet clients with both compassion and hope, while remaining grounded in evidence-based practice.

I work at your pace and place great importance on building a therapeutic relationship where you feel safe enough to be yourself. Many clients tell me they spend so much of their lives masking how they’re really feeling that therapy becomes one of the first places they don’t have to pretend everything is okay.

Whether your difficulties have been present for many years or have been triggered by recent events, therapy can provide an opportunity to understand yourself more deeply and begin building a kinder relationship with yourself.

Starting therapy can feel daunting.

Many people tell me they’re worried they won’t know what to say, they’ll cry, they’ll say too much or not enough, or that they’ll somehow “do therapy wrong.”

Please know there is no right way to begin.

Our first session is simply an opportunity for us to get to know one another.

We’ll talk about what has brought you to therapy, what life is like for you at the moment and what you hope might be different in the future. You only need to share what feels comfortable. There is no pressure to tell your whole story in one session.

We’ll also discuss any questions you have about therapy, confidentiality and how we might work together. This helps us decide whether we feel like a good fit, because finding the right therapist is important.

Some people leave their first session feeling emotional. Others feel relieved, hopeful or simply tired after talking about things they’ve held inside for a long time. However you leave is okay.

My hope is that you’ll leave feeling that you have been listened to, accepted and understood.

From there, we can begin making sense of your experiences together, one step at a time.