About Julaine
Julaine Smith is a licensed counselor with 13 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people who are struggling with anxiety, stress, depression, and LGBTQ concerns. Her style is straightforward and supportive for those who feel stuck or overwhelmed.
Julaine approaches each person as the expert on their own life. She looks for strengths clients already have and helps them use those strengths to move forward. Sessions are practical and aimed at making day-to-day life feel more manageable.
Background and approach
Her background includes work with trauma and abuse, and she has experience addressing panic and mood concerns. She also helps people who face issues with self-esteem, body image, attachment, and feeling isolated. Julaine pays attention to how past experiences affect present relationships and choices.
She holds counseling credentials as LPCC and LPC and is licensed in North Dakota and Wyoming. Over the years she has helped people navigate midlife questions, questions about purpose, and difficult patterns such as impulsivity or control struggles. Her experience includes supporting people connected to the armed forces and veterans.
In sessions clients can expect clear, respectful conversation that targets real problems. Julaine emphasizes small, usable steps and skills. She aims to make progress feel doable instead of overwhelming.
Evidence-based approaches and online therapy options
Julaine uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical steps and skills. One common approach helps people learn tools to manage anxiety and panic symptoms by practicing breathing, grounding, and step-by-step exposure to feared situations so symptoms become less disruptive. Another approach examines how past hurt and attachment patterns shape present behavior and relationships, helping clients identify long-standing patterns and try new ways of relating.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Julaine collaborates with each person to figure out what matches their goals, needs, and preferences. Together they try methods, check what helps, and adjust the plan as needed so therapy stays useful and relevant.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video calls let people use visual cues and a fuller conversation, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed, and messaging or chat is useful for brief updates or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to keep consistent care while balancing work, school, or family demands.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- North Dakota, Wyoming
- Languages
- English
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