Julie Fitter - Sexual and Relationship Therapy and Supervision
S7 Therapy
Based in Sheffield, Julie Fitter here to help with your uncertainties, concerns or complexities
I offer both in person and online sessions, the wait for in person sessions is likely to be longer
Julie Fitter - Sexual and Relationship Therapy and Supervision
THE THERAPIES
Julie offers Individual or Relationship Therapy to assess, help to understand and offer psychotherapeutic treatment options to address general and/or sexual or relationship difficulties and complexity
ASSESSMENT
Includes taking a full general and sexual and relationship history in order to make a thorough assessment to discuss and agree a formulation to help you decide on most appropriate treatment pathway
INDIVIDUAL THERAPY
Working with you on your own to address general or sexual confidence, specific sexual difficulties, for example: troublesome sexual compulsivity, problems with desire, arousal or orgasm, erectile or ejaculatory concerns, sexual pain, sexual or gender identity concerns or paraphilias. Including addressing mental and physical health complexities.
Individual therapy with Julie offers an opportunity to work with a person alone who either is not in a relationship or where they or their partner(s) do not want to attend together.
An intergrated therapeutic model is applied to address significant past life events or messages, current thoughts, feelings and behaviours or contextual factors that might be impacting on general or sexual confidence or function. This includes trauma, abuse or attachment difficulties as well as illness, anxiety, fear or phobias. It will also aim to bring into the awareness unconscious processes that might be interfering with sexual response. Therapy uses the therapeutic relationship to understand and address unhelpful interactional patterns. It can help to address difficulties or concerns with sexual desire, arousal, orgasm, sexual pain, penetration, ejaculation or sexual compulsion. Alongside talking to understand and help to express and process your difficulties you may be given homework exercises and learn how to relax, use mindfulness as well as self acceptance and personal sexual growth work. The aim of the therapy would be for you to learn to overcome or manage your difficulties and take away techniques to use to address any problems recurring in future.
RELATIONSHIP THERAPY
Working with partners in relationships together to address relationship, sex or intimacy issues. This might include work with relationship difficulties such as communication, problem solving, conflict, timetabling or sexual boredom or discrepancies. Experienced in working with impact of mental and physical health complexites.
Relationship Therapy with Julie is an opportuty to work alone or with partners in relationships together to address difficulties in the relationship, intimacy or sex.
An integrated therapeutic model is applied to address relationship difficulties or concerns about sex or intimacy. It will aim to identify and change unhelpful patterns of interaction, issues of power and control, and dysfunctional dynamics. Understanding about expectations of relationships, and roles within them will identify what it might be helpful to change and how to consider doing so. Life transitions can be significant to relationships eg moving from short to long term committment, having children, coping with illness or disablity or infidelity, and these will all be explored. Barriers to intimacy and sexual difficulties or incompatibilities will be identifed and strategies offered to help to manage or treat these and is likely to involve the setting of homework tasks.
SUPERVISION
Julie is a UKCP and COSRT registered supervisor of Sexual and Relationship Therapists or Trainees
Supervision is a process conducted within a formal working relationship that forms good practice in which a qualified or trainee Psycho-therapeutic Practitioner presents client work to a designated supervisor, as a way of learning how to work more effectively with clients. The purpose is to ensure safe and competent practice through regular meetings.
Julie offers Sexual and Relationship Therapy supervision face to face, or by Zoom or Telephone, only by prior agreement and following initial meetings. This can be agreed to the frequency required by your professional body and stage of training/experience. It would be the aim to create a safe space to explore your client work and your own professional development.
POTENTIAL BENEFITS
Helps Reduce
Anxiety About Sex
Improves Sexual Confidence and Knowledge About Sex
Help Address Difficulties with Relationships and Intimacy
Confidential Safe Space to Explore Sexuality
Julie Fitter - Sexual and Relationship Therapy and Supervision
ABOUT ME AND MY PRACTICE
I have worked with many individuals and couples to help them address concerns and find greater contentment in their lives, both in an NHS specialist service and in private practice. With over 20 years’ experience helping people to address their concerns using Integrated and Sexual/Relationship Therapy.
I am a COSRT Senior Accredited Sexual and Relationship Psychotherapist and registered with UKCP. I have an MSc in Sexual and Relationship Psychotherapy, a BSc in Psychology as well as qualifications and experience as a Nurse, Midwife and Health Visitor. This range of training and experience ensures I have a thorough understanding of all aspects of life transitions and impact of illness on individuals and their partners, as well as sexual or relationship difficulties.
Each individual assessment is used to work with clients in developing a comprehensive formulation to guide the most suitable therapeutic programme to address their specific concerns. I also have training in understanding the medical approaches for sexual difficulties.
My experience includes working with:
- pregnancy, preparing for childbirth and parenting
- low self-confidence/self-esteem, self-acceptance, assertiveness, anxiety, low mood
- interaction and social difficulties
- trauma, abuse, gender, identity
and all aspects of sexual dysfunction:
- concerns about sexual desire levels, arousal and erection difficulties, orgasm and ejaculation concern
- sexual pain conditions and difficulties with penetration/vaginismus
- the impact of childhood and sexual abuse
- sexual compulsivity (addiction)
- couple relationship difficulties including sexual discrepancies, communication, problem solving, negotiating, boundary setting, contracting, disagreements and arguing
- working with long term physical and mental health concerns and how these impact on sense of self, sexuality and relationships
I work in private practice using Zoom as an online platform or in person in rented therapy rooms in S11. Therapy might be short term focused work or longer term exploratory work. This would include therapeutic interventions from Cognitive, Behavioural, Systemic, Psychodynamic, Person Centred, Attachment based and Trauma focused traditions. The most appropriate interventions would be discussed following the assessment so that you can decide how to proceed. I work with individuals and those people in relationships together, including couples and more progressive relationship arrangements, and with people of any sexual identity.
First Session Details
Our first session would be an opportunity to get to know each other, find out more about what brings you to therapy and discuss the contractual issues. It would be important for you to work out if you could feel comfortable enough in this setting and with me. If you are then happy to proceed, I would work with you to make an assessment of your concerns, and, if indicated discuss a formulation with you, to help you decide what your options are to address these. If it was indicated, you could then decide if you wanted to proceed with therapy - there is no expectation that you would have to do so. I would also try to signpost you on, if I am not qualified to work with your concerns.
Availability
Currently, whilst working online and in person, I have greater flexibility regarding appointments. For face to face appointments, I have limited room availability for face to face therapy - please contact me for more information if you may be interested.
Julie Fitter - Sexual and Relationship Therapy and Supervision
FEES
If you require individual or relationship thereapy, or supervision of therapy, Julie can meet to discuss a plan to suit your requirments without needing to commit to a contract at the first meeting.
INDIVIDUAL
THERAPY
Fifty minute sessions
- Comprehensive general and/or psychosexual assessment.
- Therapy tailored to your individual requirements.
- Weekly or Fortnighly sessions.
- Regular review to monitor progress.
- Work to COSRT Code of Practice and Ethical Guidelines.
£ 65 /Session
RELATIONSHIP THERAPY
Fifty minute Session
- Comprehensive relationship and/or psychosexual assessment.
- Therapy tailored to your relationship requirements.
- Weekly or Fortnightly sessions.
- Regular review to monitor progress.
- Work to COSRT Code of Practice and Ethical Guidelines.
£ 70 /Session
SUPERVISION
One Hour Session
- Experienced, Registered Supervisor.
- Supervision provided for Qualified or Trainee Therapists.
- Frequency to suit your professional requirements.
- Face to face, Zoom or Telephone (by prior agreement).
- Work to COSRT Supervision Guidelines.
£ 65 /Hour
Julie Fitter - Sexual and Relationship Therapy and Supervision
