About Julie
Julie Fuentes is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) who speaks English and Spanish. She focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, depression, relationship strain, and life transitions. Her style is warm and direct, aimed at making a first step feel manageable for someone who is worried or overwhelmed.
She draws on 12 years of experience in a range of settings, including inpatient and outpatient care, community mental health, foster care, and residential programs.
Background and approach
That background means she has worked with people facing trauma, mood disorders, and complex life stressors. She also has experience supporting people from diverse cultural backgrounds and the LGBTQ community. In sessions she aims to create a caring, nonjudgmental space where clients can talk through what matters most.
She uses talk therapy alongside practical tools to reduce symptoms and improve day-to-day functioning. Julie helps people set small goals and develop skills they can use between meetings. Her approach pulls from attachment-based methods, client-centered principles, cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior strategies, and Jungian ideas about meaning.
She adapts these methods to fit each person’s needs rather than following a single script. Julie practices in California and uses language skills in English and Spanish. She frames therapy as a collaborative process - the client and therapist work together to identify priorities and build on strengths.
For many people she meets, the goal is clearer thinking, steadier mood, and better relationships.
How Julie's Approaches Work Online
Julie often uses attachment-based ideas to look at how past relationships shape current patterns. This can help people understand trust issues, intimacy struggles, and repeated conflicts in relationships. She also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical exercises to reduce anxiety and improve mood.Finding the right approach is a team effort. Julie works with clients to decide which methods fit their goals, needs, and comfort level. Sessions can shift over time - for example starting with problem-focused CBT exercises and adding attachment-based work when relationship patterns become a focus.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits for this style of work. Video calls let the therapist and client maintain visual connection for relational work, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging supports quick check-ins or brief skill coaching between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep working on skills between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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