Julia Bueno practises full-time as a psychotherapist in London. Her first book, The Brink of Being: Talking about Miscarriage, won the British Medical Association Popular Medicine Book Award 2021 and was the runner-up for the British Psychological Society Book Award 2021.

She has a particular expertise in working with pregnancy loss and infertility, and has met countless self-critics in her consulting room. Her writing has been published in The Times, the Sunday Times, the New York Times and Psychology Today, and she reviews books for the Times Literary Supplement.