About Julie
Julie Borden is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 23 years of practice. She holds a master's degree in Social Welfare and has spent more than two decades helping people navigate stress, anxiety, grief, parenting struggles, and depression. Julie aims to create a clear path forward for people who feel stuck or overwhelmed.
She describes therapy as a way to gain new perspective. Many problems look different when you step back and see patterns you did not notice before.
Background and approach
Julie helps people notice those patterns and then try small, manageable changes that add up over time. Her approach balances insight and action. Conversations help uncover assumptions and relationship habits.
Then she and the person work on practical steps - small experiments that build confidence and lead to bigger shifts. Julie often focuses on everyday struggles like communication problems, coping with life changes, parenting pressures, and managing intense emotions. She also supports people dealing with trauma, addiction concerns, bipolar mood challenges, and issues around intimacy and self-esteem.
She works with clients in California and conducts sessions in English. Julie aims to help people live more intentionally, make deliberate choices, and find clearer options for moving forward. If someone is ready to try a different view of their situation, she offers steady, experienced guidance.
How online approaches and formats help you move forward
Julie uses straightforward, evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on both understanding and action. One common approach emphasizes recognizing unhelpful thinking and relationship patterns so people can try new behaviors; this helps with anxiety, depression, and relationship communication. Another approach focuses on breaking large problems into small, achievable steps so clients build confidence through repeated small successes; this is useful for coping with life changes, parenting challenges, and recovery from setbacks.Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. Julie works with each person to match techniques to their needs, goals, and preferences. She listens, offers options, and adjusts the plan as progress is made so the work fits the person rather than the other way around.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into a busy life. Video can support deeper conversation and nonverbal cues, phone calls can work well when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging can be useful for shorter check-ins or when someone prefers not to be on camera. These options give flexibility for scheduling, pacing, and the way a person wants to engage in the work.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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