About Julie
Julie Featherman is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) in Florida and a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Virginia with three years of clinical experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and relationship and family concerns. Her background also includes support for career struggles, addictions, self-esteem issues, and bipolar-related challenges.
Julie draws on a range of experience across non-profit settings, a residential crisis stabilization unit, a community mental health agency, and independent practice.
Background and approach
She also brings nearly 20 years of experience from other fields, including marketing, higher education administration, and K-12 online education. Those varied roles inform a practical, down-to-earth approach to therapy. Her style is warm and non-judgmental.
She treats people with respect and aims to build a collaborative working relationship. Clients can expect goal-focused sessions that center their priorities and life context. Julie uses a mix of cognitive-behavioral, psychodynamic, and solution-focused methods to shape conversations and goals.
That means she helps identify unhelpful thoughts and patterns, looks at how past experiences influence today, and focuses on clear steps toward change. She has particular experience with body-focused repetitive behaviors such as trichotillomania and skin-picking, and she adapts plans to each person's needs.
Julie welcomes people who are ready to take practical steps toward feeling better and finding more balance in daily life.
Therapeutic approaches and how they fit online
Julie often uses cognitive-behavioral techniques that help identify unhelpful thoughts and replace them with more helpful thinking. This approach is practical and tends to work well for anxiety, stress, and mood concerns.She also draws on psychodynamic ideas that look at how past experiences shape current feelings and patterns. That work can help when recurring relationship issues or long-standing habits are getting in the way of change.
Solution-focused methods are used to set clear goals and small steps forward, making sessions action-oriented and measurable. Together these approaches allow sessions to be tailored to what a person needs right now.
Finding the right mix is collaborative. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or has not worked before. They will adjust methods over time so the plan stays practical and relevant.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people use visual cues and deeper conversation, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a shorter check-in, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and different lifestyles.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Grief
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Virginia, Florida
- Languages
- English
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