About Julie
Julie Rathbun is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) with two decades of experience in behavioral health. She focuses on anxiety and stress as well as relationship strain, grief, depression, and coping with life's changes. Her style is down-to-earth and practical, aimed at helping people manage emotions and day-to-day challenges.
Rathbun draws on a long career that began after earning a Bachelor of Arts in Behavioral Science in 2000 and a Master of Social Work in 2003.
Background and approach
She has worked across a range of settings in Arizona and brings that breadth of experience into each session. Her practice reflects years of hands-on work with people facing common and complex concerns. Sessions often center on clear goals and small, manageable steps.
She uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people reduce anxiety, handle grief, and improve communication. Conversations focus on what feels most pressing and what can change in daily life. She also addresses issues related to attachment and abandonment, body image, caregiver stress, and life transitions.
Sexuality topics such as BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture are handled with respect and without judgment. Rathbun offers support for family of origin concerns, divorce and separation challenges, and men’s issues. Rathbun lives in Arizona and brings a calm, steady presence to work with each client.
Her approach emphasizes practical coping skills, clearer communication, and steps toward greater self-acceptance.
Evidence-based approaches for online care
Julie uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on changing unhelpful patterns and building coping skills. One approach emphasizes practical coping strategies for anxiety and stress - learning simple tools to calm intense feelings, manage worry, and handle day-to-day triggers. Another approach focuses on grief and life transitions by helping people process loss, identify meaningful routines, and gradually reengage with life activities.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist and client discuss goals, try techniques that fit the person’s needs, and adjust the plan over time. That shared decision-making helps match methods to what actually works for each person.
Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging offers flexible ways to meet. Video is useful for a full-session conversation and visual cues, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or text messaging can serve as shorter check-ins or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options help make counseling fit into busy schedules and different life circumstances.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English
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