About Julia
Julia (Jurate) Mcgarry is a licensed mental health counselor practicing in New York. She brings seven years of clinical experience to sessions and focuses on anxiety along with depression, stress, addictions, and relationship concerns. Julia works to make first steps feel manageable for people who are worried or overwhelmed.
Clients can expect a straightforward, flexible approach. She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking and build new coping habits.
Background and approach
Motivational interviewing is used to boost readiness for change and to strengthen the will to try new behaviors. Julia also uses attachment-based and client-centered methods to create a respectful, accepting space. She pays attention to how past connections affect current relationships and supports clients as they practice different ways of relating.
Sessions aim to be collaborative and geared to each person's needs. Practical concerns like sleeping, parenting strain, work stress, and substance use are part of the work she does. Julia helps people break problems into small, manageable steps and develop routines that fit daily life.
Her style is calm, direct, and focused on skills people can use between sessions. Her license is LMHC, which indicates New York clinical authorization. Sessions are offered in English and use a mix of conversation and skill-building tools so clients can track progress over time.
Approaches that translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people name what matters to them and take small steps in that direction despite difficult thoughts or feelings. It is useful for persistent anxiety, stress, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on spotting patterns of thinking and behavior that fuel distress and practicing specific skills to change them, which fits well with short skill-focused online sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then try methods that suit those aims. This is a collaborative process where adjustments are made based on how helpful the strategies feel in daily life.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and practice of skills in real time. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to use video. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, layering support between sessions, and fitting help into a busy day.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Grief
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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