About Julie
Julie Wilson is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) based in California who helps people manage stress, anxiety, relationship strain, trauma, and self-esteem struggles. She brings a warm, down-to-earth presence to sessions and often uses gentle humor to ease tense moments. Her style is relational and attentive to each person’s story.
She focuses on both obvious symptoms and deeper life questions. That means looking at patterns from early relationships, current coping skills, and the sometimes hidden parts of experience.
Background and approach
Julie uses mindfulness and parts work alongside attachment thinking to understand how people relate to themselves and others. Her approach is practical and conversational. She aims to create space where people can name what’s hard and practice new ways of responding.
Sessions usually balance exploration with concrete tools for managing stress, mood, and overwhelming emotions. Julie holds two master’s degrees, one in East-West Psychology and one in Counseling Psychology, and she has worked in the field for ten years. That background informs a blend of reflective depth and everyday strategies in therapy.
People come to Julie for help with grief, addictions, sleep and eating concerns, parenting stress, ADHD, and intimacy-related worries. She also supports those coping with major life changes, family-of-origin issues, and identity questions. Conversations are offered in English and framed to fit each person’s needs.
Therapeutic approaches that translate well online
Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to how early relationships shape patterns in adult life. Online sessions can help identify those patterns and practice new ways of relating in everyday situations. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person’s own experience and pace, offering a supportive space to clarify values, build self-acceptance, and make choices that feel right. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches concrete skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improved communication, which can be practiced between sessions and reinforced during calls.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. That choice can change over time as progress is made and new challenges emerge.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and reading nonverbal cues, while phone sessions can fit a shorter break or lower bandwidth. Live chat and messaging allow brief check-ins, written reflection, or ongoing support between appointments. These options make it easier to schedule care around work, caregiving, and daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dissociation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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