About Julie
Julie Duncan is a licensed psychologist in Minnesota who helps people manage stress and anxiety. She sees adults facing depression, relationship strain, grief, addictions, trauma, and life changes. Julie draws on a warm, respectful approach to make starting therapy less intimidating.
She uses simple, practical techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy to identify unhelpful thinking and build new coping habits. Julie also practices client-centered methods that prioritize each person’s goals and pace.
Background and approach
Motivational interviewing is used when people want help finding the motivation to change behaviors related to addiction, parenting, or health challenges. Sessions are conversational and interactive. Julie aims to create a calm space where people can talk through painful experiences and test small steps for change.
She focuses on skills that can be used between sessions, like managing panic symptoms or improving communication at home. Her background includes three years working in community mental health settings across Minnesota. That work involved supporting people with mood disorders, trauma or abuse histories, postpartum and bipolar concerns, and those on the autism spectrum.
Julie also has experience helping caregivers cope with stress and compassion fatigue. People who are new to therapy often find her approach approachable and steady. She collaborates on goals and adjusts methods to fit each person’s needs.
Julie holds the credential MN Psychologist LP4663 and conducts sessions in English.
Approaches that guide online work and how they help
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person’s goals. The therapist follows the person’s lead, reflects what they say, and helps them clarify what matters most in their life. This approach is useful when someone needs a steady, accepting space to talk through feelings.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the connections between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It uses straightforward exercises to test unhelpful thoughts and build new coping skills for anxiety, panic, or low mood. CBT techniques are practical tools people can practice between sessions.
Motivational Interviewing helps people find their own reasons to change. It’s helpful for tackling addictions, improving parenting routines, or making lifestyle shifts by exploring ambivalence and strengthening motivation.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, try methods that fit the person’s needs, and adjust the plan over time. Clients and the therapist work together to see what feels most helpful and sustainable.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone meetings, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can fit brief check-ins or busy days. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a workday, care routine, or times of high stress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English
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