About Julie
Julie Ryan is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who focuses on practical support for stress, anxiety, and major life changes. She keeps sessions warm and straightforward, meeting people where they are and helping them move forward without judgment. She offers counseling that emphasizes listening first.
Julie helps people notice unhelpful beliefs and build new skills for everyday life. That may include learning ways to manage strong emotions, reduce worry, or cope with loss.
Background and approach
Her approach draws on several evidence-based methods including cognitive behavioral ideas, acceptance and commitment work, dialectical behavior techniques, and EMDR for trauma processing. She sometimes uses art-informed ideas when it fits a person’s goals and preferences. Julie earned a master’s degree in social work from the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities and holds a Texas LCSW.
Over seven years she has worked in nonprofit settings, a children’s advocacy center, primary care, independent practice, and intensive outpatient treatment programs. In sessions she aims to create a calm, nonjudgmental space. Conversations are collaborative - she listens, offers different perspectives, and helps people try new coping tools.
The focus is on realistic steps that fit daily life. She provides weekday hours for appointments and uses flexible session formats to fit different needs. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to available times.
How Julie’s approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) invites people to notice difficult thoughts and feelings and focus on actions that match their values. It can help when anxiety or stress gets in the way of daily life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and uses practical exercises to shift unhelpful patterns. CBT is often helpful for worry, low mood, and stress. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) can be used to process traumatic memories by guiding attention while discussing the memory, which may reduce distress related to traumatic events.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Julie will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and then suggest experiments to see what helps most. The plan is collaborative and may combine techniques from different approaches as needs change.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let people connect face-to-face from wherever they are. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or when users prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging are helpful for shorter check-ins, practicing skills between sessions, or when written communication feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into busy schedules and everyday life.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Grief
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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