About Julie
Julie Gallivan is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Michigan who focuses on practical ways to manage anxiety and stress. She uses straightforward methods to help people handle relationship strain, parenting challenges, and major life changes. Julie aims to create a calm space where people can talk about what matters and find steps that fit their lives.
She blends acceptance and commitment ideas with client-centered listening to help people notice what matters most.
Background and approach
Cognitive behavioral techniques are used to address unhelpful thoughts and patterns that feed anxiety and low mood. Mindfulness practices are offered to build calm, and narrative ideas help people reframe difficult stories about themselves. Julie has six years of counseling experience and works with a wide range of concerns from grief and trauma to addictions and compassion fatigue.
She also addresses struggles like body image, caregiver stress, communication problems, and workplace pressure. Her approach is practical and goal-oriented while respecting each person’s values and pace. When faith is important, Julie can include faith-based perspectives and will pray with clients if they request it.
She invites people to name what they want to change and then tries out small, manageable steps together. Sessions focus on skills people can use between meetings. Julie offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make counseling fit into busy schedules.
She works with English-speaking clients and accepts international clients as well.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and focus on actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, coping with life changes, and finding motivation for difficult choices. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying thought patterns and testing them with practical exercises that reduce worry and improve mood. It works well when people want concrete tools to change how they think and behave. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and unfolding a person’s own solutions through empathic support and reflection; it helps when someone needs a steady, accepting space to understand their feelings.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Together they will try methods and adjust the plan based on how the client responds, making therapy a collaborative process.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video is useful for full conversations and skill practice. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging allow brief check-ins, quick reflections, and ongoing support between longer appointments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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