Faith-Based Organisations

 

Online or face to face services available for organisations, senior leaders, individual staff, volunteers and teams:

Professional Therapy/Counselling*

Professional therapy utilising person-centred, cognitive behavioural and solution focussed therapeutic approaches, dependent on what issues you bring to therapy and the type of approach you are looking for.  Counselling always seeks to understand the individual’s worldview. Incorporation into the therapy of an individual’s personal faith will be client-led.

Pastoral Supervision*

Differing from professional counselling, these sessions seek to aid leaders’ emotional health by providing a confidential and supportive space to talk. Sessions may be used to ‘off-load’ work/organisational pressures, discuss personnel issues, debrief critical incidents in the organisation, manage work/life balance and personal well-being.

These sessions are offered as a one-off or a regular (ie monthly, bi-monthly) booking.

Annual ‘Mental Health MOT’*

These sessions can be accessed by the senior leader, individual staff or volunteers to monitor mental and emotional well-being at a yearly interval.  The session will include assessment of the presence of any symptoms anxiety or low mood out of the normal range (by using standardised questionnaires) and psycho-educational advice and signposting, discussion around emotional, physical (and spiritual**) health.

**where applicable.

Critical Incident Debriefing*

Sessions are available to individuals and teams following a critical incident or season in the organisation ie death, traumatic incident, personnel crises.

*Sessions are charged at £50 per hour or £60 for 1.5 hours.  Fees for teams on discussion.

Consultancy (fees on discussion)

Consultancy services on an ad hoc or as an ongoing arrangement to advise/consult on issues of complexity with regards to mental health, risk of harm to self/others, mental health issues or personnel.

Training (fees on discussion)

Training is offered broadly around the topic of mental and emotional well-being in a faith-based context.

Examples of training include:

Delivery of inspiring and empowering training, both face to face and online, to teams large and small and for events and conferences.

  • Pastoral Team Training
    Ie:  Helping People navigate Loss and Bereavement, Basic listening skills, Recognising signs and symptoms of mental health issues,  Self Harm and suicide, Managing risk, Depression and Anxiety Upskill, How to maintain positive mental health
  • Training Days for teams
  • Mental Health Awareness for the community
  • Conferences (½ or full day)

Each organisation and event is unique and I am very happy to discuss with you, prior to booking, the unique needs of your organisation and community and will tailor sessions and content to your requirements.

Most services are available either online (via Zoom) or in-person

Fees can be paid by an individual or by invoicing the organisation on agreement

Concessionary fees may be available on discussion

 

Understanding myself better

Thank you for helping me to learn and understand myself better, for helping me to update my memory bank and re-organise my trauma and for giving me the tools to deal with life a bit better.
 
You have remained professional while also showing me compassion, kindness, care and empathy during my most vulnerable and challenging time.

The gift of a lifetime!

I approached therapy with apprehension: I struggled to identify what problems I actually faced and was sceptical about how successful it would be. Being from an ethnic/religious minority background, I’ve always been hesitant with opening up about the ways in which this has impacted me, but Julie’s cultural sensitivity, wider awareness and her previous experience with these topics meant I was so quickly reassured. She always remained respectful, understanding, non judgmental, open-minded and well informed, and I’d without a doubt recommend her.

We worked on issues regarding disordered eating and body image ..  I loved the dynamic mix of approaches we used in session, from mapping out deeper childhood experiences to working through books, to in-session exercises. Throughout the course of the sessions, my mood started changing visibly. By the end of the year I had grown naturally happier, friends and family noticed I laughed more, and I suddenly found myself with lots of time to develop myself and enjoy hobbies. I’m forever grateful for Julie for helping me to discover freedom and realise how much more there is to life!  A massive thank you!

London – Well-being Course

We absolutely loved the well being course that Julie delivered for us online. It was so great for our church to be able to talk about topics around mental health and dealing with emotions in a healthy manner. Julie is an outstanding professional who also understands church life and leadership. We had brilliant question and answer sessions, notes were made available and the whole course was excellent. We would thoroughly recommend Julie’s Services to other organisations and churches. It was incredibly beneficial for our church and we deeply appreciated her insight and wisdom.

Keely & Roy Morley, Senior Leaders, Net Church

Richmond – Staff Support Sessions

“In the midst of the pandemic, Julie offered 2 supportive sessions to each of our pastoral staff. 

The purpose was to support their resilience and provide a safe space to discuss the impact of the last season.

These sessions were incredibly helpful for our team and each of them benefited and felt strengthened by their time with Julie. 

We will certainly be offering more of these sessions to our team in the future. I have no hesitation in recommending Julie to you.”

 

Ben & Gale, Senior Leaders, Influence Church

Chester – Training

Julie took our leaders through a brilliant webinar (hosted on Zoom) that encouraged a better understanding of how to take responsibility for our own mental health – particularly with the added strain of the Covid-19 season. Her presentation was so practical, relevant, accessible and genius in its simplicity. She provided us with positive and helpful language to structure our conversation on mental health around and put effective tools in our hands that we have continued using in our leadership teams. She was so warm, honest and gentle that she put everyone at ease. Julie naturally created a safe space for our leaders to talk in the breakout sessions around topics that helped everyone understand themselves and each other better. Her input has been invaluable in helping our leadership teams continue to fourish.Emily RowlandsSenior Leader, Chester

The best yet hardest things I’ve done

“Seeing Julie was one of the best yet hardest things I’ve done. To sit and openly discuss your insecurities, worries & stresses is difficult but Julie made me feel safe, relaxed and able to fully open up about my struggles. I never felt judged. Her empathy and understanding made it easier for me to accept why I think like I do and how I could make changes which would better me.  I can’t thank her enough and I highly recommend her for anyone wanting to make personal improvements.”

Less consumed by my own thoughts

“My sessions with Julie enabled me to be less consumed by my own thoughts. Julie gave me a comfortable environment to be able to offload and process how I was feeling. I felt confident that I was genuinely being cared for and listened to. I am now feeling hopeful for my future and I’m so thankful to Julie for giving me tools I can use.”

Reducing the burden of anxiety and OCD.

Thank you so much for all your help during my journey to reduce the burden of anxiety and OCD.

Being able to look towards the future rather than focusing on the past is exciting! So simply, just wanted to say a big ‘thank you’.
(Client who recently ended therapy)

St Albans – Training

As senior leaders, Louise and I have greatly benefited from the mental health training session that Julie delivered to our staff team over the years. Julie is highly prepared, exceptionally professional, and familiar with the challenges that leaders of faith based organisations and their staff face on a daily basis. Our team found Julie to be skilled communicator who combines core therapeutic skills of warmth, empathy, and genuineness with an overly professional style of delivery of training and a thorough understanding of the subject matter.

Andrew & Louise
Senior Leaders, St Albans

Impacting thing

The most impactful thing was; ‘the realisation of being able to accept that it’s OK to fall down occasionally and that it’s OK for someone else to help you get back up again!’