About Julie
Julie Hatfield is a licensed clinical social worker with 12 years of experience. She practices in Montana and North Dakota and helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, and parenting concerns. She focuses on respectful, compassionate care and works with each person to address their unique situation.
Julie listens for what matters most and helps people set clear, manageable goals. She talks through coping strategies for anxiety and stress, and supports people who are facing grief, anger, or big life changes.
Background and approach
She also assists people navigating relationship and family challenges and those struggling with self esteem or motivation. Her work includes supporting people with ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, and compassion fatigue. She brings practical approaches to issues like caregiver stress, communication problems, and difficulties tied to adoption or blended families.
She is experienced helping people cope with symptoms linked to trauma, dissociation, and domestic violence. Julie emphasizes collaboration in sessions. She helps people try new ways of responding, practice skills between meetings, and notice what does and doesn’t help.
She encourages small steps and steady progress rather than quick fixes. People who choose Julie often want straightforward support and tools they can use every day. She aims to make sessions accessible and focused on real-life needs.
Taking that first step is a significant move toward feeling better, and she will work alongside each person through the process.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Julie uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques focused on practical skills and symptom reduction. One common approach she uses involves structured skills practice to manage anxiety and stress, teaching breathing, grounding, and step-by-step coping tools that can be tried between sessions. Another approach emphasizes processing and responding to trauma and abuse in manageable steps, helping people name difficult memories and build safety and stability over time.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, try methods that fit those aims, and adjust the plan as progress is tracked. Sessions are guided by what helps the individual feel more capable and less overwhelmed.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for fuller conversation and nonverbal cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Live chat and text messaging make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day and provide ongoing support between meetings. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to use alongside daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- North Dakota, Montana
- Languages
- English
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