Trudie Johnston

Trudie Johnston is a counsellor registered in the United Kingdom with six years of professional experience. She works with adults and draws on both her clinical work and earlier bereavement volunteering to shape her practice. Trudie aims to make the first step into counselling feel manageable and supportive for people who are nervous about reaching out.

She helps people with a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem and depression. She also supports those facing relationship strain, life changes, health-related challenges and issues around intimacy or anger. Additional focus areas include body image, attachment difficulties, caregiver stress and end-of-life related concerns.

Trudie’s initial training was in person-centred counselling, and she now blends several approaches to suit each person. Her listed approaches include Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centred Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Mindfulness Therapy and Somatic Therapy. She adapts these methods to the needs and goals people bring to sessions.

In sessions she aims to build an open, non-judgemental space where thoughts and feelings can be talked through. She emphasises listening and working at a pace that feels right for the individual. Trudie also draws on her own experience of having received counselling to inform how she supports others.

People who choose to work with her can expect a practical, person-focused approach. If someone is unsure where to begin she helps them identify priorities and small steps forward. The process is collaborative and paced around each person’s needs and circumstances.

How Trudie’s approaches can work online

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns in close relationships and how early bonds affect current reactions. It can help people understand why they respond the way they do in relationships and build new ways of relating.

Client-Centred Therapy centres on listening and empathy. The counsellor offers a respectful, non-judgemental space and follows the person’s pace to help them talk through concerns and decide on next steps.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings and actions influence each other. It is often used for anxiety, low mood and stress by identifying unhelpful thinking and practising different responses.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Trudie will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and then suggest which methods might help. Decisions about approaches are made together and can be adjusted as the work progresses.

Confirm the available session options before booking as the biography does not list formats. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions around daily life, avoid travel time and choose quieter surroundings. It can also allow shorter check-ins when needed or options that do not require being on camera, depending on what is offered. Registered or accredited professionals and therapists commonly adapt practical arrangements to suit each person’s routine and needs.