About Julia
Julia Thompson is a mental health professional based in Maryland who focuses on stress, anxiety, addictions, grief, depression, and LGBTQ concerns. They use straightforward, practical approaches to help people manage symptoms and regain a sense of control. Julia brings eight years of clinical experience and combines talk-based care with skills practice.
Julia aims to make sessions feel calm and nonjudgmental. They invite people to talk about what matters most and help break problems into small, doable steps.
Background and approach
Common work includes identifying unhelpful thinking, building coping skills, and developing routines that reduce overwhelm. Their approach draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy to address difficult thoughts and emotional heightening. Mindfulness exercises are used to teach present-moment awareness and reduce reactivity.
Motivational Interviewing helps people explore their own goals when change feels hard. Julia’s background includes a Doctor of Medicine degree and a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor credential. They have worked with people facing substance use challenges, relationship and family-origin issues, body image and identity concerns, and loss.
Outside of work, Julia enjoys reading, gaming, home improvement, gardening, and crafting stained glass and costumes. They share life with feline companions. This personal side often helps them relate to everyday stressors and small wins in therapy.
How CBT, DBT, and Mindfulness can work online
Julia uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot and change unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors. CBT often involves practicing new ways of thinking and testing small behavior changes between sessions, which translates well to video or phone work.Dialectical Behavior Therapy focuses on emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improving relationships through specific skills practice. DBT skills can be taught in short chats or longer video sessions and practiced during the week with support from the therapist.
Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices that reduce reactivity and improve focus. These exercises are easy to guide over video or by text and can be repeated daily to build steadiness.
Finding the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they may try one method for a few weeks and adjust based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let the therapist use visual tools and worksheets, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is low, live chat supports quick check-ins, and text-based messaging lets people keep a running dialogue about progress. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family, or caregiving schedules while keeping momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Antisocial personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Maryland
- Languages
- English
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