About Julia
Julia Brown is a licensed clinical social worker with 25 years of experience helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress and anxiety. She works with individuals coping with depression, addiction, grief, and trauma. Her tone is warm and straightforward so parents and busy adults can understand what to expect in a session.
Julia focuses on practical steps that fit into daily life. She helps people notice unhelpful patterns, build skills to manage strong emotions, and set small goals that add up.
Background and approach
Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person's needs. Her approach draws on several evidence-based methods including cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness, and client-centered listening. She uses those tools to address sleep problems, eating concerns, anger, and low self-esteem.
She also supports people facing caregiving stress, chronic illness, and major life changes. Julia has worked with clients around relationship strain, communication problems, commitment issues, and the fallout of abandonment or adoption struggles. She brings particular attention to compassion fatigue, career stress, and challenges that accompany aging and caregiving roles.
People who come to her can expect clear, practical strategies and steady support. She helps clients clarify values, practice new habits, and track progress over time. Sessions aim to leave clients with concrete next steps they can use between meetings.
Approaches for online care and what they offer
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them and then take steps that align with what matters. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches concrete strategies to change patterns that cause distress. It often helps with sleep problems, worry, and mood challenges. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening, understanding, and building a trusting working relationship so people feel safe exploring difficult topics.Julia treats the choice of approach as a shared decision. She listens to each person's goals and preferences, explains different methods, and recommends what to try first. If something doesn't fit, she adjusts the plan so work moves at a comfortable pace and stays aimed at practical results.
Online therapy here includes video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and skill practice. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is low or for a shorter check-in. Live chat and text messaging offer flexible ways to stay connected between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit care into busy schedules and varied routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina, Indiana
- Languages
- English
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