About Julie
Julie Smith is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 16 years of experience in mental health. She has worked in inpatient hospitalization, community outpatient settings, and runs a independent practice focused on client-centered care. Her approach aims to make therapy practical and approachable for people feeling overwhelmed.
She helps people who are struggling with stress and anxiety and those facing life changes. She also supports people dealing with parenting challenges, low self-esteem, and mood concerns.
Background and approach
Additional areas she addresses include chronic pain and illness, communication and family problems, money and financial stress, panic attacks, post-traumatic stress, seasonal mood changes, self-harm, and building self-love. Sessions are collaborative and interactive. Julie uses a mix of techniques drawn from cognitive-behavioral ideas, acceptance-based strategies, and humanistic methods.
She focuses on teaching skills clients can use between sessions to manage symptoms and handle day-to-day challenges. Her tone in the room is warm and respectful. People can expect practical tools, paced exploration of difficult topics, and an emphasis on strengths and resilience.
Julie works with each person to tailor goals and the pace of therapy. Julie practices in Pennsylvania and offers sessions in English. She provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging so people can choose what fits their schedule and needs.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Julie uses evidence-based techniques that focus on changing unhelpful thinking and increasing meaningful action. Cognitive-behavioral approaches help people notice thought patterns, test them, and try new behaviors to reduce symptoms like anxiety and panic. Acceptance-based strategies, including mindfulness and acceptance and commitment ideas, teach skills to tolerate difficult feelings and focus on values-driven steps when emotions are intense.Choosing the best approach is a collaborative process. Julie works with each person to identify goals, try techniques, and adjust methods as needed. She emphasizes practical skills and checks in regularly to see what helps and what needs to change.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing conversations between scheduled meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, parenting, or medical schedules while keeping consistent progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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