About Julie
Julie Duncan is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Louisiana with 15 years of clinical experience. She focuses on anxiety alongside many other concerns and offers straightforward, compassionate support. Julie aims to make early steps feel manageable for people who are worried or overwhelmed.
She listens without judgment and helps people name what feels hard. Sessions are practical and goal-focused. Julie works with relationship and family stresses, trauma and abuse, addictions, grief, mood concerns like depression and bipolar, and challenges with self-esteem, sleep, and eating.
Background and approach
Julie also supports people facing work stress, caregiving burdens, chronic illness, and life transitions. She has experience helping people in the LGBT community and addresses attachment, abandonment, codependency, and communication problems. Her approach blends evidence-based techniques with a warm, direct style that encourages problem-solving and growth.
Julie encourages clients to explore values, patterns, and daily habits that affect wellbeing. She offers coaching-style support when helpful and focuses on skills people can use between sessions. Expect clear, practical steps alongside time to process emotions.
To begin, she asks clients to describe current struggles and priorities so treatment fits real life. Julie emphasizes collaboration and gradual change, helping people build confidence and stable routines that reduce anxiety and improve overall functioning.
How evidence-based approaches translate to online care
Julie uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that teach skills and change patterns. One common approach focuses on identifying thinking patterns and testing them with real-life experiments to reduce anxiety and improve mood. This helps with worry, low mood, and decision-making.Another useful approach emphasizes building routines and coping skills over time. This method breaks larger goals into small, reachable steps for sleep, eating, stress, and addiction-related concerns. It supports steady progress through practice and repetition.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Julie will work with each person to pick methods that match their goals, preferences, and daily life. She checks in regularly and adapts plans based on what is working or not working.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be lower bandwidth, live chat supports short check-ins, and text messaging lets clients reflect between sessions. These formats increase flexibility and help people keep therapy consistent as they work toward reduced anxiety and better functioning.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
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