Juliette Kirkwood, PACFA

Juliette Kirkwood is a PACFA counsellor with 20 years' experience who works with adults and adolescents. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strains, trauma and abuse, career challenges and major life changes. Juliette aims for a calm, steady space where people can make sense of their feelings and find practical steps forward.

Her practice blends talk-based counselling with embodied work drawn from Dance Movement Therapy. That combination supports people who find words alone are not enough to name or shift their experience. Juliette has run DMT programs in community settings and women’s health retreats, and she has clinical experience in inpatient and outpatient psychiatric settings.

She spent five years lecturing in the Graduate Diploma of Dance Movement Therapy at Excelsia University College and at the IKON Institute of Australia. Teaching keeps her practice informed by current research and reflective professional standards. Those roles deepened her focus on nervous system regulation and how the body holds emotional material.

Juliette regularly supports people with complex trauma, including histories of childhood abuse, and she often works with postnatal depression and substance misuse concerns. Her approach is trauma-informed and paced to each person, emphasising safety and embodied awareness as part of healing.

Earlier work as a school counsellor gave her five years of experience with adolescents facing anxiety, mood issues and identity development. Juliette speaks English and Arabic and works to create an accepting environment that helps clients reconnect with themselves and move toward greater wellbeing.

How embodied approaches translate to online therapy

Juliette uses a mix of talk-based counselling and embodied techniques drawn from Dance Movement Therapy. Talk-based counselling focuses on discussing patterns, feelings and practical steps to manage stress, anxiety and relationship difficulties. Dance Movement Therapy uses simple body awareness and movement to help people notice how emotions show up physically and to support regulation after trauma.

Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. Juliette works with each person to try methods that suit their needs, goals and comfort. She adapts activities and pacing so that clients can explore both words and bodily experience at a rate that feels manageable.

Session formats are not specified in the biography, so confirm current options before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and remove travel time. For some people, working remotely helps them try body-based awareness in familiar surroundings, while others may prefer a face-to-face meeting; these preferences are discussed and agreed together.