About Julie
Julie Rider is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 25 years of experience in California. She focuses on anxiety, depression, stress, and life transitions. Her work also covers parenting struggles, grief, trauma and relationship concerns.
Julie writes plainly and meets people where they are in their day-to-day lives. She uses straightforward tools to help people manage worry and overwhelming thoughts. Sessions often include steps to spot unhelpful thinking, practice calming skills, and try small changes between meetings.
Background and approach
Julie blends practical strategies with conversations that honor each person's story. Parents find her background helpful for learning concrete parenting skills and easing family stress. She also supports people facing loss, career shifts, postpartum challenges, and compassion fatigue.
Julie pays attention to cultural background and adoption or foster care experiences when those issues come up. Her approach adapts to the person in front of her rather than using a single method for everyone. That means some people focus on short-term problem solving while others work on deeper patterns over time.
Julie emphasizes clear goals and small, doable steps. People who prefer calm, direct guidance tend to connect well with her style. She encourages practical homework between sessions and checks progress regularly.
If someone wants a mix of skills practice and conversational support, she shapes sessions around those needs.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Julie uses Client-Centered Therapy to build a respectful, listening-based relationship where the person's own goals lead the work. This approach helps when someone needs a space to make sense of feelings and decide their next steps.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to identify unhelpful thoughts and try practical experiments. CBT is useful for reducing persistent worry, improving sleep, and changing repetitive thinking that fuels anxiety or low mood.
Finding the right approach is part of the plan. Julie talks with each person about goals, preferences, and what has helped in the past. Together they pick techniques to try and adjust them over time based on what is working.
Online sessions include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video works well for in-depth conversation and skills practice. Phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited or for a simpler check-in. Chat and text offer shorter, flexible ways to touch base or review strategies between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- LGBT
- Multicultural concerns
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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