Stressworks
Counselling & Psychotherapy for Loughborough
Leicester & the East Midlands

Janice Judson BA Hons PGCE Dip. Cllg. Dip. Psych. Studies CMCIPD is a UKCP registered psychotherapist, a Full Professional Member of BACP and a Chartered Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, and offers a variety of avenues of help and support.

Janice is an experienced and careful therapist, and has completed the rigorous training which leads to registration as a psychotherapist with the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP). She has been the Director of Stressworks for over ten years. As a Full Professional Member of the British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy, she adheres to the BACP’s Code of Ethics and Practice. She offers both short-term focal and long-term work, and accepts both GP and self-referrals. She also offers professional supervision and employee assistance. Janice is experienced in facilitating groups as a group therapist. She has been Lecturer in Counselling and Psychotherapy at Leicester University for a number of years where she was, until recently, Director of the MA/Postgraduate Diploma in Psychodynamic Counselling .

As a therapist, Janice is acutely aware not only of the emotional and psychological impact of past and current experiences on our lives and well-being; she is also familiar with the realities of individual and workplace tension and stress, and is able to bring those two areas of knowledge and experience together in her work with clients. As a consultant and trainer, she brings together both therapeutic and training perspectives, helping individuals, organisations and teams to become aware of both their conscious and unconscious processes, so facilitating growth and change at a deep level.

Janice Judson is an English and Drama Graduate, and taught those subjects for a number of years before leaving to develop her own training and consultancy company, ~ STRESSWORKS ~. Having worked towards attaining Chartered membership status of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, Janice worked extensively in the voluntary and statutory sectors, and later in industry, specialising particularly in the areas of Interpersonal Skills, Personal and Management Development, Time & Stress Management.

Subsequently, she also trained as a counsellor before going on to the rigorous and extensive training which leads to registration as a psychotherapist with the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP). She currently runs a busy private practice, and was, until recently, also Lecturer in Counselling and Psychotherapy and Director of the MA/Postgraduate Diploma in Psychodynamic Counselling at Leicester University.

Janice is a warm and empathic therapist, who sees the quality of the therapeutic relationship as central to the successful outcome of therapy. Trained as a psychodynamic counsellor and therapist, she combines this core knowledge and understanding of the way in which our current difficulties often relate back to past experiences and events, with an awareness that we all have a rich and dynamic way of being which encompasses not only our day to day conscious life, but also a creative and lively unconscious one. She believes that lasting change happens not at a cognitive level, but at an emotional one, and that becoming self aware and accepting of ourselves in the company of a therapist who understands us is a truly healing and empowering experience. 'For me, the relationship is the therapy.'