Julia Lewis-Sargent
Psychotherapist in Oxford

Please note: I will NOT be available from Friday 23rd December until Wednesday 4th January 2023. However you are welcome to send a message that I will pick up in the new year.

Hello and welcome to my information page. I offer psychotherapy and counselling to adults in both online video and face-to-face settings and I work with couples and individuals.

As a psychotherapist, I have the privilege of sharing in each client's personal exploration of themselves to a more satisfying way of living. My motivation began, and continues to be, with my own experience as a client, my curiosity and determination to grow by defining and honouring my experience and my beliefs. So as a therapist I offer and share my curiosity, tenacity, attention, excitement, to support my clients to foster and honour their own experience and beliefs.

In my experience, psychotherapy and counselling can have a significant impact on our lives, it offers an opportunity to develop our relationship to ourselves and to others in new and more fulfilling ways. I believe that our experience begins with our relationship to ourselves. So learning about how we experience ourselves emotionally, behaviourally and physically, informs us personally and professionally.

Background & Psychotherapy Qualifications

I accredited as a humanistic psychotherapist with the UKCP (United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy) in 2003 via Spectrum Therapy.

I work eclectically using a range of models and influences including gestalt, working relationally, formative psychology and polyvagal theory.

I have over twenty years' experience in private practice as a psychotherapist, combined with a decade each of practicing in the NHS as a counsellor in a GP Surgery and as a Bereavement, Loss and Trauma counsellor in a hospital setting.

I'm a qualified as an online psychotherapist having trained with the Online Therapy Institute as a Certified Cyber Therapist.

My Specialisms

The areas I work with include: low mood, depression, anxiety, low self-esteem, bereavement, loss, trauma, stress, relationship issues, personal growth and more- this is not an exhaustive list so do get in touch if you would like to explore working with me.

Approach to Psychotherapy & How I Work

Therapy sessions are held either in-person or on the Zoom video platform, they last for 50 minutes and we usually begin meeting weekly. The most important element is for us both to feel we can work together and this we establish in our initial conversation and session(s).

My aim is to provide a collaborative approach of curiosity, understanding, challenge and learning within the therapeutic relationship. Working together to support you to find your way through what brought you, as well as what may also immerge as we work.

As such the duration an individual remains in therapy is very personal to each client. It depends on what issue(s) bring them in the first place, as well as the depth with which they feel comfortable working. Some may feel they want a focused approach and feel satisfied after half a dozen sessions. Whilst others at a similar duration, may feel they have only just begun to explore and become clearer about what brought them and what they want. There is no right or wrong way, just what works for you.

As the most important element of working together is feeling that we are a good match. I offer a free 20 minute telephone or video consultation where we can get a sense of each other and if we would like to go-a-head and book an initial session.

Do get in touch by email or phone if you would like to have a conversation with me.

Therapies & Rates

Please note the rates detailed below are there to give you an idea of the therapists standard rates, we strongly advise you contact the therapist for more detailed rates and any offers they may have.

Therapy	Appointment Type	Rate
Psychotherapy	In Person	£60 per 50 minutes
Psychotherapy	Online/Telephone	£60 per 50 minutes
Counselling	In Person	£60.5 per 50 minutes
Counselling	Online/Telephone	£60 per 50 minutes

Additional Rate Information

Working with couples, the sessions last for 60 minutes and my fee is £75 per session.