About Julie
Julie Butler is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) based in Iowa who helps people manage anxiety, stress, depression, and life transitions. She draws on practical strategies to help individuals rebuild confidence and cope with difficult emotions. Her style is straightforward and focused on real-life change rather than jargon or long lectures.
Julie blends client-centered listening with focused skills training in therapy sessions. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors.
Background and approach
Solution-Focused techniques keep sessions goal-oriented and practical so progress feels tangible. With ten years of clinical experience, Julie works with a wide range of concerns including relationship and communication problems, grief and loss, trauma and abuse, addiction, ADHD, and parenting stress. She also addresses issues like abandonment, attachment, codependency, and blended family challenges.
Her approach aims to meet people where they are and build on their strengths. Sessions emphasize small, doable steps. Julie helps people set clear goals, practice new skills between meetings, and track what improves.
She uses motivational interviewing when readiness for change is unclear, and elements of the Gottman Method for relationship communication work. People who prefer a collaborative and practical therapy style will find her approach straightforward. Julie frames therapy as a partnership focused on real improvements in day-to-day life.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening carefully and following the client's lead. It helps people feel heard and develop their own solutions, which can be especially useful when sorting through anxiety or life change. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) targets the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions; online sessions use practical exercises and between-session work to shift unhelpful patterns. The Gottman Method emphasizes clear communication skills and problem-solving techniques for relationship concerns; it can guide structured conversations and homework delivered between sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Julie will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. She adapts methods so they match the client's needs, trying approaches in session and adjusting based on what works best in real life.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversations and skill practice, phone works when bandwidth is limited, live chat is helpful for short check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or travel while still focusing on meaningful change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Coping with life changes
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Iowa
- Languages
- English
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