About Julie
Julie Batson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 20 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, depression, and low self-esteem. She practices in Missouri and offers work that focuses on practical steps and steady support. Julie is direct but warm and aims to make the first contact easy for worried parents and busy adults.
Julie shapes sessions around each person's needs. She listens first and then helps set small, realistic goals.
Background and approach
Conversation may include exploring past attachment patterns, noticing thought habits, and practicing simple mindfulness exercises to reduce overwhelm. Her approach blends client-centered care with techniques from cognitive behavioral work and attachment-based thinking. That mix is used to tackle anxiety, grief, relationship concerns, and life transitions.
Julie also helps people facing body image worries, parenting strain, caregiving stress, and identity-related concerns within LGBT topics. Over two decades she has worked with people affected by trauma, abandonment, blended family issues, chronic illness, and compassion fatigue. Sessions aim to increase self-awareness, reduce symptoms that get in the way, and build coping skills that fit daily life.
She also addresses intimacy-related issues, communication struggles, and career stress. Julie offers flexible scheduling and multiple session formats to suit different needs. She frames therapy as a collaborative process and helps clients find a plan that feels manageable.
Starting is just a short matching step and a scheduled session to begin making changes.
How Julie’s Approaches Work Online
Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns. In sessions this often means looking at how trust, closeness, or distance show up now and trying new ways of connecting that reduce anxiety. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps identify unhelpful thought patterns and test them with small behavioral changes to lessen anxiety and improve mood.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Julie will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they outline a plan and adjust methods as progress is made so the work fits real life.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video calls are good for deeper conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in fits a work break. Live chat and texting let people send messages between sessions and use written check-ins when that feels more manageable.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- 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)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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