“One year ago, at age 31 and at the end of a 3-year relationship, I decided to fully face the strong likelihood that I’ve unknowingly struggled with ADHD for my entire life. I began by starting to change my daily habits and doing as much reading and listening as I could on the topic. 3 months later, I was officially diagnosed. I had read that an ADHD counsellor/coach could play an integral role in one’s support team as they learn how to manage their newfound context. So, half a year into my journey with a sense of momentum in my life I contacted Julia and we immediately started weekly phone sessions and then monthly. The progress I made over those following 5 months would have likely taken me years without Julia’s guidance. She offered me ideas and triggered paradigm shifts that I would not have encountered easily on my own, if at all.
I always knew that the final level of my immediate journey was online dating and learning to overcome my ADHD-related rejection sensitivity. With each new habit, achievement, and moment of “oh, I can actually do this” I was finally at the point where I felt strong enough to set a deadline on my calendar together with Julia and quit delaying my jump back into the dating pool. To my shock, dating was fun and I was lucky enough to quickly meet a very special person.
Today, I confidently feel like I have the tools I need to live my life to the fullest. Thank you Julia!”
Client LD
“My experience working with Julia has been very rewarding. After only our first meeting, I already felt ‘lighter’ and more able to focus on the situation with which I had been floundering for some time. Julia not only listened closely but was able to ask the right questions to steer me to the heart of the matter. She helped me regain the confidence to make personal decisions and accept that we each have the responsibility to meet our own needs. I feel as though I have had a tune up on my relationship and interpersonal skills!”
Client MS
“If there is one person that has made a significant impact in my life in the past 5 years, it would be Julia. I had never tried counselling prior to meeting Julia. When searching for one, I wanted someone who had experience with clients who had ADHD or ADHD symptoms. She was exactly what I was looking for. She listens, provides clarity, and implements tactics that have helped me manage my emotions. Throughout the course of our weekly sessions, I have become much more self-aware of the impulsive actions in my life. Every week, we would discuss the one thing I wanted to work on until our next session, which I always looked forward to. Julia created that safe space for me and my brain. She has taught me how to recognize and understand the challenges I face on a daily basis. I thank her profusely for continually making my relationships with people and myself better.”
Client JT
“I was diagnosed with ADHD earlier this year and have been in weekly counselling with Julia for 5 months. Julia has a very special gift in creating an open and safe place that helps guide you to your own conclusions, while providing some helpful suggestions along the way and keeping the main point in focus. She is able to give new perspectives on old thoughts that are holding me back and helps me understand why they aren’t serving me.
Through our weekly sessions, I’ve been able to make huge progress in creating daily routines that keep me on track with my goals and immensely reduce my stress and anxiety while juggling a very busy schedule. She has helped me realize that my thoughts are within my control and has given me tangible solutions and techniques to create the life and thought processes that I want. Each week, I feel excited at the end of our sessions to implement new tools and strategies. Before working with Julia, my life felt overwhelming and I was at the mercy of my own thoughts. I’ve gone from struggling daily to feeling like I’m excelling at life. I am forever grateful for Julia’s help and cannot recommend her enough. She has truly helped me become the “me” I’ve always wanted to be but didn’t understand how to achieve.”
Client CT
“I am one of many young women with ADHD who appears to function quite well. As a result, most professionals brush me off when I ask for help managing my symptoms. But anyone with ADHD knows how hard we work to keep functioning this well. I sought guidance in professional relationships, regulating emotions, and perfectionism.
Julia helped me to explore and reframe my reactionary thinking about different situations, which directly led to positive outcomes. It was no coincidence that I had good news to report at the start of each call, no matter how much anxiety the problem initially caused. I received real insights about emotional patterns established by masking ADHD in childhood. I didn’t realize they might still influence me today. Thank you for showing me that I can be myself around others!
I recommend Julia to young adults with ADHD who need strategies and insights for navigating their relationships with others, and especially their relationship with themselves.”
Client TK
“I didn’t discover I had ASD until I was in my late 50’s and felt like my life was falling apart. I knew something wasn’t right. By chance, I did a few of the online ASD tests and discovered there was a good chance I may be autistic. I checked online and discovered Julia. She has tons of experience working with adults and a great online reputation, so I decided to try counselling with Julia. I have completed 10 sessions to date and without a doubt, her counselling has helped me to become much calmer, more relaxed and more at ease when interacting with others. I feel less stress and can finally make more sense of my life. Talking with Julia has really helped my overall quality of life in a very short time. Thank you so much.”
Client TR
“I started counselling with Julia around 6 months ago & I would have never expected how rewarding it would be! I am a 28 year old woman, I was diagnosed with severe combined type adhd when I was 23. Staying consistent with projects & life management has been a huge personal struggle of mine, something I’ve desperately tried to gain control of my entire life with little success. I basically live in a constant state of forgetfulness, which has a very negative impact in all areas of my life. Through discussion & experimentation Julia has helped me establish routines & find strategies that work best for me in any given situation. Julia has helped me verbalize my symptoms, tackle my goals & most importantly reminds me my adhd is a gift & not a disability. Our weekly sessions have provided me with the structure and accountability to stay motivated. I still have my challenges but I am hopeful for the future & not expecting failure! Talking to a professional who understands adhd is necessary, I only wish I pursued counselling earlier in my life!”
Client TD
“Over the past year, I had been searching for self-fulfillment, and a more positive life outlook. In previous experiences, I had met with various professionals to help me grow and deal with negative-impacting events that had occurred in my life. However, these were very text-book in their approach and were only somewhat successful. More recently, I had undergone an extremely low period in my personal life, which expedited my search for someone to guide me through this part of life’s journey. I had the fortuitous opportunity to meet Julia.
Julia introduced me to a completely new approach, applicable to modern experiences and expectations. Through her gentle guidance, she allowed me to explore the path of self-illumination and positivity, rather than enforcing a text book ideal of how I should respond to situations. In just six sessions, she gave me the tools to conquer the negative issues I was experiencing at the time, and the knowledge to utilize these tools for managing potential future negative experiences. She is a caring counsellor, allowing me to determine the solution that best suited me, by pointing the way to a new way to perceive the world around me. Her counselling style is extremely successful and highly recommended. Julia has helped me to look forward with a new perspective in my quest for ongoing spiritual evolution and self-awareness.”
Client JC
”Within a week after our first session, I was able to accomplish more then I had in the last month. Julia really understands adult ADHD and has a way of making complicated things seem easy. She gets right to work and gives you customized tools tailored to exactly what you need. After only a few sessions I felt ready to take control of my life again, a way I hadn’t felt in a long time.”
Client BF
“Julia has been a pleasure to work with! She is professional, patient and perceptive. She holds a safe space free of judgement and pressure, making it easy to open up. Julia is great at listening, providing pauses to think, clarifying points and giving you tools to help regulate. I would definitely recommend Julia to others with ADHD!”
Client FWJ
“I have worked with Julia on two separate occasions for personal relationship issues. Julia is by far the most comprehensive counselling I have ever experienced. Julia has an uncanny ability to cut to the heart of the matter and keep you focused on the issues to be resolved. When you are in your most pain or upset, Julia is the voice of reason and calm, while still getting you to look after yourself and work out what is really troubling you.
It has been my pleasure to work with Julia. Her knowledge and experience shine through in every conversation and you are left at the end of each session a little wiser and a little more sure footed of your next steps when everything feels like it’s falling apart. Julia works with you to get you back on solid ground and keep you moving in a positive direction.
I can’t say enough good things about my experience working with Julia. I do know that I would not be here to write this recommendation for you to read if it weren’t for Julia‘s wisdom and guidance this year. Our conversations gave me the tools I needed to move from surviving to thriving at life.”
Client SM
“I started working with Julia at a particularly tumultuous time in my life. I felt like I really needed support and attention to work out what shape I wanted my life to be, how I wanted to be in the world.
My work with Julia has been really transformative. In our sessions, we explored my feelings, the questions I had about my life, and how I wanted to move forwards, often using images that emerged spontaneously and turned out to be powerful tools that helped me shift my awareness to new and more grounded perspectives.
As we continued to work together, I felt a growing connection to my awareness, my imagination, and my goals. Her attention to words and feeling, her thoughtful questions, and her commitment to presence have supported me in developing my own tools and approaches to navigating my internal terrain. Often, a session will result in a deep awareness – a feeling of returning to by body, of a sense of belonging in the world. Working with Julia has really helped me develop a practice of being deeply human in awareness.”
Client NK
“My sessions with Julia came at a time when I was experiencing a number of unexpected and significant changes to my life.
I found the sessions to be extremely helpful in understanding my relationships with others, particularly the relationships that were causing tension and frustration in my life. I walked away from each session with a set of tools and knowledge that I was able to use and apply immediately. The sessions also helped me see my relationships and frustration in a different light.
It has been a pleasure working with Julia and she has truly assisted me. I have noticed a positive shift in the manner in which I react to certain situations and people. Overall, I am a much calmer person than I was before I met with Julia.”
Client JL
“I started counselling with Julia just before getting diagnosed with Adult ADHD. Having Julia there to offer different ways to frame the way I thought about myself in the world was very helpful and healing. I enjoyed our conversations, and had a very positive transformative time over the course of our phone sessions. I found Julia’s manner to be very down-to-earth, curious, inviting, caring and relaxed, which provided a stable ground on which to speak openly, dig deeper, and think deeply without feelings of pressure. I didn’t become overwhelmed or emotional in our conversations as I usually tended to do in counselling sessions, which was a very pleasant and welcome change. Julia’s instinct and invitations to take pauses of quiet time was also very nice and comforting. I also appreciate that she provides a complimentary intro-call to make sure she can be helpful with the issues presented— proof that she really wants to make a positive difference in people’s lives :)”
Client KR
“For years, I’ve been trying to “declutter” my life. I’d read the self-help books, tried to use some of the common techniques, but wasn’t having much success in moving forward.
A friend recommended Julia. I thought: unless she’s going to come to my home and clean it herself, how can she possibly help me?
Amazingly, in each session, Julia asks just the right questions that trigger an idea, a goal, a plan, and an action step. I’m not “there” yet, but with Julia’s help, I’m taking the steps towards finally getting organized and achieving my goal.”
Client JG
“My entire life, I struggled to wake up in the morning and get to school or work on time. As a student and employee I was always right on time or late, and my mornings were hectic and stressful. For years I wanted to change this but I couldn’t. I finally decided to meet with Julia and have a few sessions with her. During the sessions, she helped me express my frustrations and more importantly, she equipped me with some methods and techniques to change my situation. At first, I struggled a bit. However now, only after 3 months of sessions, I have changed my morning routine completely. I now wake up on time, get ready in a calm manner and even get to work EARLY! The satisfaction I get from having been able to change is quite motivating in itself. Thank you Julia.”
Client MA
“I had counselling sessions with Julia for almost six months and it has been life changing. I love her insight, and her consummate professional skills have helped me to realize my potential. Our sessions have contributed to a true paradigm shift, and this has allowed me to formulate techniques and strategies so that I can achieve my goals in my professional as well as personal life. I am enjoying the benefits and recommend Julia as a life counsellor for those looking to take some great strides forward.”
Client SF
“I am so very happy to have found the counsellor Julia Olsen. I am very happy to share that there have been quite a few changes I have made since I had sessions with her.
She helped me sort out and prioritize issues I had had for a long time and made me feel that I am more in control of my life than I thought possible before.
All those little and not so little discoveries had a positive impact on me and as a result the level of stress I experienced before has been reduced to a big extent.”
Client RL