Hello! My name is Julia Donald and I am a CBT Psychotherapist (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) living in Inverness. I was awarded “Best Trauma-Based Psychotherapy Business 2023 Scotland” in the GHP Mental Health Awards, “CBT Therapist of the Year (Highlands)” in the 2023 Scottish Enterprise Awards, “CBT Psychotherapist of the Year (Highlands)” in the 2022 Scottish Enterprise Awards and “Most Empowering CBT Therapist (Highlands)” in the 2021 Scottish Enterprise Awards.
I am a guest lecturer on dental anxiety and trauma for the Department of Oral Sciences at the University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI) and will be a guest speaker at the UHI Student Conference in Inverness in February 2024.
I have also been a guest lecturer at the University of the West of Scotland (UWS) to the Postgraduate CBT students on health anxiety and dissociation.
Alongside my private practice work I also work as an affiliate CBT Psychotherapist for Crisis Counselling, Poppy Scotland, Nuffield Health, Think CBT, One Bright, and CBT Clinics.
I have significant experience working with generalised anxiety, social anxiety, health anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder, stress, low self esteem, phobias, depression, childhood abuse, adult sexual assault, car accidents, trauma, PTSD, dissociation, borderline personality disorder, infertility, baby loss, relationship issues and couples therapy.
My specialities are trauma, dissociation, anxiety and self esteem. To learn more please click here.
I am accredited with the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP). I have also completed specialised Psychotherapy training accredited by ACTO and the BACP in working with clients online and over the phone.
My qualifications are:
- Honours degree
- Masters degree
- Postgraduate Diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
- COSCA Certificate in Counselling Skills
- Certificate in Online and Telephone Counselling
Specialised Training
Trauma
- Certified Clinical Trauma Professional Training Level 1 and Level 2
- Advanced Master Programme on the Treatment of Trauma
- Certificate in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
- Trauma Focused Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (TF ACT)
- Cognitive Therapy for Working with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- Cognitive Processing Therapy for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- Working with Complicated and Complex PTSD
- Trauma Informed Practice when Working with Complex PTSD
- Trauma and memory: What every clinician should know
- Multiple Trauma: How and When to Work with Trauma Memories
- Brain, Dissociation and Trauma
- Cognitive Processing Therapy for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
- Using Imagery Techniques to Help People with Complex Reactions to Trauma
- Essential Trauma Treatment Strategies
- Treating First Responders Dealing with Operational Stress Injury and PTSD
- Trauma Focused CBT in a Perinatal Context
- Moral injury in PTSD
- Using Internal Family Systems to Heal Traumatic Wounds
- Internal Family Systems Therapy – Essentials in Understanding Trauma Related Parts Work
- Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Body Oriented Therapy Techniques for Trauma and Attachment
- Developmental Trauma: The Neuro-Psych-Social Impact of Childhood Abuse and Neglect
- Working with Relational Trauma
- Child Sexual Abuse: Hope for Healing
- Trauma and Attachment – Interpersonal Neurobiology and the Traumatic Transference
- The Meaning of Shame in the Treatment of Trauma
- Trauma Based Anxiety
- Essential Sensorimotor Skills and Resources for Healing Shame
- Trauma and the Role of Shame
- Parts, Ego States and Fragmented Selves in Shame and Self-loathing
- New Approaches to Trauma and Complex Grief
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) Tools and Strategies for Trauma-Related Symptoms
- Trauma and Expressive Arts
- Rewind Technique
- Practical Mind-Body Strategies to Heal Trauma And Foster Resilience
Anxiety
- CBT for Adults with Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
- Working with Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
- CBT for GAD: Treating excessive worry by targeting the fear of uncertainty
- Working with Health Anxieties
- CBT for Health Anxiety and Medically Unexplained Symptoms
- The Relevance, Assessment, and Treatment of Death Anxiety in Mental Health Conditions
- Cognitive Therapy for Social Anxiety Disorder in Adults and Adolescents
- Social Anxiety Disorder: Practical Considerations
- Rumination Focused CBT for Anxiety and Depression
- Treating Fears of Physical and Mental Contamination in OCD
- Low intensity interventions for OCD
- Trauma Based Anxiety
- CBT for Panic Disorder
- Cognitive Therapy for Panic Disorder
- Calming the Anxious Brain
Dissociation
- Working with Dissociative Disorders
- Brain, Dissociation and Trauma
- Inside Out: Harnessing Brainpower in CBT
- Internal Family Systems Therapy – Essentials in Understanding Trauma Related Parts Work
- Parts, Ego States and Fragmented Selves in Shame and Self-loathing
- Dissociation and the Body: A Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Perspective
Reproduction
- CBT Approaches to Working with Infertility
- Pregnancy and Infant Loss: Effective Strategies to Support Grief and Treat Trauma, Anxiety and Depression in Bereaved Parents
- Pregnancy and Infant Loss Training
- Working with Infant Loss
- Assisting Clients with Subsequent Pregnancies after Loss
- Trauma Focused CBT in a Perinatal Context
- Working with Trauma and Loss in the Perinatal Period
- Postpartum Anxiety, Rage and Burnout
- Essential Knowledge for Preventing Maternal Suicide
Neurodiversity
- CBT for Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Working with Autistic Clients
- Working with ADHD
- CBT for Adult ADHD: An Implementation-Focused Approach
- ACT for Adult ADHD
Other Training
- Integrating Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT), Masterclass
- Dialectical Behavioural Therapy Toolkit
- Emotional Schema Therapy
- Polyvagal Theory in Practice
- Somatic Psychotherapy
- Perfectionism: the Good, the Bad and the Reality
- Working with Long-Term Conditions and Medically Unexplained Symptoms
- Adjustment to Diagnosis of a Long-Term Physical Condition
- CBT for Persistent Pain
- Attachment Perspectives in Borderline Personality Disorder: Implications for Treatment
- Understanding and Treating Narcissistic Personality Disorder
- Neurobiology of Attachment
- The Pain of Abandonment
- CBT for Relationship Distress
- Diploma in Anger and Aggression Management
- Dealing with Distress: Working with Suicide and Self-Harm
- Diploma in Grief and Bereavement Counselling
- Treating Complicated Grief, Bereavement and Loss
- CBT for Chronic Loneliness
- Diploma in Relationship Psychology
- Level 3 Certificate Domestic Violence and Abuse
- Certificate in Self Harm
- Using Imagery Rescripting and Autobiographical Memory to Challenge Negative Selves and Build Positive Selves
- Diploma in Addiction Psychology
- Certificate in New Age Addictions
- Diploma in Mental Health & Social Care
- Diploma in Psychology
- Certificate in Occupational Therapy
- Diploma in Body Language
- Level 3 Certificate Developmental Psychology
- An introduction to LGBTQ+ affirmative based CBT
Contact me to find out how I can help you or to book your first session.