About Julie
Julie Blackburn is a licensed therapist in Indiana with 17 years of clinical experience. She helps people who feel overwhelmed by stress or anxiety and those coping with grief, life changes, or compassion fatigue. Julie focuses on practical support and emotional healing in clear, direct conversations.
She often supports people facing health challenges, including cancer, chronic illness, fertility issues, and postpartum struggles. She also helps those dealing with caregiver stress, divorce and separation, and the weight of isolation or loss.
Background and approach
Sessions emphasize steady pacing and realistic steps forward. Julie uses a grief-informed outlook when appropriate and aims to create a calm, respectful space to talk through painful feelings. She encourages self-compassion and goals that fit each person's life.
Work in sessions may include making sense of loss, reducing anxiety, and rebuilding a sense of purpose. Her background includes long-term clinical practice across varied life transitions and health-related concerns. Julie brings experience supporting people through hospice and end-of-life counseling, forgiveness work, and challenges tied to guilt and shame.
She blends practical coping skills with attention to emotional recovery. Clients can expect straightforward planning, empathy, and attention to daily routines that support wellbeing. Julie helps people identify small, manageable changes that lead to steadier days and clearer direction.
How evidence-based techniques work online
Julie uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on clear steps and emotional processing. One common method emphasizes grief-informed care, which helps people name and sit with loss, build routines that support healing, and set realistic short-term goals to reduce overwhelm. Another approach centers on practical coping skills for anxiety and stress, teaching breathing and grounding tools, activity planning, and problem-solving to ease daily strain.Finding the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and what feels most comfortable. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as things change so work stays useful and manageable.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people with busy lives or health concerns. Video calls let participants see nonverbal cues and work in depth. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be easier on days when being on camera feels like too much. Live chat or text-based messaging supports quick check-ins, shorter coaching-style exchanges, and ongoing reflections between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into daily life and maintain steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Indiana, Illinois
- Languages
- English
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