Trudie Johnston, BACP, NCPS

Trudie Johnston is a UK-registered counsellor who works with adults aged 18 and over and brings six years of professional practice in both private and clinical settings. Her path into counselling began through bereavement support volunteering, an experience that inspired formal training and a commitment to helping people navigate loss and life transitions. Trudie holds registrations with BACP and NCPS, professional counselling registrations in the United Kingdom that reflect her training and practice standards.

She supports people facing a wide range of concerns, including stress, anxiety, grief, self-esteem difficulties, coping with life changes, relationship and family problems, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related issues, anger, career challenges, and depression. Her additional focus areas include abandonment, aging and geriatric issues, attachment difficulties, body image, cancer, caregiver stress, chronic pain and illness, co-morbidity, codependency, dependent personality patterns, dissociation, divorce and separation, guilt and shame, and hospice and end-of-life counseling. Trudie tailors work to each person, believing that no concern is too big or too small to bring to counselling.

Her foundational training is in person-centred (client-centered) counselling, and she has pursued further development in attachment work, cognitive behavioral approaches, and psychodynamic perspectives. Her wider clinical toolkit also includes attachment-based methods, mindfulness techniques, and somatic approaches, which she integrates to match the needs brought by each client. Trudie aims to create an open, non-judgmental and personal therapeutic space where thoughts and feelings can be explored. Having experienced counselling herself, she understands how difficult the first step can feel and offers supportive, compassionate guidance for those ready to begin.