About Julia
Julia Burnette-Lee is a licensed clinical social worker with 30 years of practice in Tennessee. She focuses on reducing stress and anxiety and helping people navigate relationship struggles and trauma. Her approach centers on respectful, sensitive care that meets each person where they are.
She uses straightforward conversation to identify what matters most. Sessions are shaped around each person's needs and goals rather than a one-size-fits-all plan. Julia emphasizes practical steps people can try between meetings to build momentum and relief.
Background and approach
Over three decades she has worked with a wide range of concerns including depression, anger, addictions, grief, eating and sleeping problems, and challenges related to parenting and self-esteem. She also addresses issues such as bipolar disorder, compassion fatigue, and coping with life changes. Her background includes supporting people facing complex or overlapping problems such as chronic illness, codependency, and domestic violence.
Julia aims to treat everyone with sensitivity and respect. She explains options clearly and invites input on what feels most useful. The goal is to help people feel more capable of handling everyday stressors and longer-term struggles.
People who choose her work with a therapist who prioritizes collaboration. She helps clients set realistic next steps and adjusts plans as progress unfolds. Her style is practical, steady, and focused on real-life improvements.
Evidence-based approaches and flexible online care
Julia draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. One commonly used approach helps people identify unhelpful thinking and try new ways of responding to stress and anxiety, which can reduce immediate distress and improve daily coping. Another approach emphasizes building skills for managing emotions and reactions, useful for anger, relationship strain, and mood challenges.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist and client will decide together which techniques fit the client's needs, goals, and preferences. Julia tailors the plan over time, trying options and adjusting based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let people keep face-to-face conversation without travel. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and text messaging can support brief check-ins, mood tracking, and ongoing reminders between meetings. These formats make scheduling more flexible and can help therapy fit into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English
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