About Julianne
Julianne Alston, LMSW, helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, grief, trauma, or big life changes. She writes with a calm, easy manner and focuses on practical steps people can use right away. Her background includes work across the lifespan and a clinical master’s in social work which inform her approach.
Julianne uses clear, goal-oriented methods like cognitive behavioral techniques to address unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She also draws on trauma-focused work to help people process painful events and on attachment-based ideas to support stronger relationships with caregivers and children.
Background and approach
Motivational interviewing is part of how she helps people find their own reasons to change. With six years of practice, Julianne has supported people dealing with parenting challenges, adoption and foster care issues, attachment concerns, and blended family stress. She has also helped people facing chronic illness, caregiver strain, career uncertainty, and questions about life purpose.
Her style is strength-based and down-to-earth. Sessions aim to identify concrete steps and build skills for coping with stress, impulsivity, shame, and low self-esteem. She offers support for post-traumatic stress and recovery after domestic violence or other abuse.
Julianne works from Michigan and speaks English. She accepts international clients and provides sessions through video calls, phone, live chat, or text messaging. Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a session once a plan is in place.
How Julianne’s approaches work online
Julianne commonly uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people notice and change unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors. CBT is practical and often focuses on skills you can try between sessions to reduce anxiety and improve daily functioning.She also draws on attachment-based work, which looks at how early relationships affect current connections and parenting. That approach can help people strengthen relationships with children, address attachment issues, and improve communication in family roles.
Finding the right approach is part of therapy. Julianne works collaboratively to match methods to each person’s needs, goals, and preferences. She discusses options and adjusts strategies as the work progresses to find what fits best.
Online therapy lets people access video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging depending on what suits their schedule. Video sessions mirror in-person conversation, phone sessions use less bandwidth, live chat can be a quicker check-in, and messaging is helpful for shorter or more frequent contact. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while working on anxiety, trauma recovery, parenting skills, or life transitions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Life purpose
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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