About Julie
Julie Olson is a licensed master social worker with eight years of clinical experience. She focuses on practical ways to manage stress and anxiety while helping people build self-worth and cope with life changes. Julie works by listening closely and by making ordinary steps feel doable.
She offers a calm, nonjudgmental presence in sessions so people can talk openly. Conversations cover mood, relationships, identity, and the everyday things that pile up and feel heavy.
Background and approach
She helps clients name emotions and find small changes that make a difference. Julie uses straightforward tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness. She also draws on client-centered and solution-focused methods to match what each person needs in the moment.
Motivational interviewing is part of how she supports change when clients feel stuck. In practice she moves at the client’s pace and sets goals together. Sessions often include short exercises, gentle reframing of unhelpful thoughts, and focus on skills you can use between meetings.
The tone is collaborative rather than prescriptive. People turn to Julie for worries like anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, relationship strains, addiction concerns, and life transitions such as career or college changes. She also helps with sleep, eating, and caregiver or chronic illness stress.
Julie works with adults and offers services to people in Michigan and beyond who prefer online formats. If something in this description feels relevant, the next step is a brief matching questionnaire and a scheduled session to see if the fit feels right.
How Julie’s Approaches Work Online
Julie uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help identify unhelpful thinking patterns and to practice small, concrete changes in behavior that reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms. CBT often involves brief exercises in session and homework between meetings to reinforce progress.She also uses mindfulness therapy to teach simple practices for settling the mind and reducing stress. Mindfulness exercises can be short and easy to do during a busy day, which helps with sleep, rumination, and coping with strong emotions.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work together. Julie will discuss goals and preferences and adapt techniques so they feel useful and realistic. That collaboration helps shape a plan you can try and adjust as you go.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video lets you have a face-to-face conversation, phone can be helpful when bandwidth is limited, live chat and messaging make brief check-ins possible between meetings. These options offer flexibility to fit therapy into busy routines and changing schedules.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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