{"id":8,"date":"2025-01-15T16:19:23","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T16:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/juliebarlowcounselling.co.uk\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2025-02-11T17:59:36","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T17:59:36","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/juliebarlowcounselling.co.uk\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are times in our lives when we can feel overwhelmed, distressed and stuck, unsure where to go and who to turn to. At times like these, talking to an experienced professional can help you to become unstuck, be more able to deal with what life throws at us and to move forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our feelings and emotions can affect and dominate the way we think and behave, sometimes in a negative way, and we need to understand our feelings and emotions, face some of the things that we fear before we can become unstuck and move on.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"747\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/juliebarlowcounselling.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/jb-22-of-24-747x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-97\" style=\"width:347px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/juliebarlowcounselling.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/jb-22-of-24-747x1024.jpg 747w, https:\/\/juliebarlowcounselling.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/jb-22-of-24-219x300.jpg 219w, https:\/\/juliebarlowcounselling.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/jb-22-of-24-768x1053.jpg 768w, https:\/\/juliebarlowcounselling.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/jb-22-of-24-1121x1536.jpg 1121w, https:\/\/juliebarlowcounselling.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/jb-22-of-24-1494x2048.jpg 1494w, https:\/\/juliebarlowcounselling.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/jb-22-of-24-scaled.jpg 1868w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Julie Barlow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am an experienced counsellor and psychotherapist, coupled with significant life experience. I provide one-to-one adult therapy in North Leeds and Harrogate. I work in a humanistic person-centred way as I believe that each of us is a unique individual, with individual views on how we see the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My aim is to provide safe space, to listen in a non-judgemental way, to help people achieve their full potential and to understand their real self.<br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"457\" src=\"https:\/\/juliebarlowcounselling.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/BACP-Logo-378622-1-1024x457.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-77\" style=\"width:353px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/juliebarlowcounselling.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/BACP-Logo-378622-1-1024x457.png 1024w, https:\/\/juliebarlowcounselling.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/BACP-Logo-378622-1-300x134.png 300w, https:\/\/juliebarlowcounselling.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/BACP-Logo-378622-1-768x343.png 768w, https:\/\/juliebarlowcounselling.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/BACP-Logo-378622-1-1536x686.png 1536w, https:\/\/juliebarlowcounselling.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/BACP-Logo-378622-1-2048x914.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are times in our lives when we can feel overwhelmed, distressed and stuck, unsure where to go and who to turn to. At times like these, talking to an experienced professional can help you to become unstuck, be more able to deal with what life throws at us and to move forward. Our feelings &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/juliebarlowcounselling.co.uk\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;About Me&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>About Me - Julie Barlow Counselling<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/juliebarlowcounselling.co.uk\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"About Me - Julie Barlow Counselling\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"There are times in our lives when we can feel overwhelmed, distressed and stuck, unsure where to go and who to turn to. 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