About Julie
Julie Zemke is a licensed clinical social worker with 15 years of experience helping people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and major life changes. She uses a direct but compassionate style and focuses on practical tools that clients can use right away. Julie encourages healthy boundaries and helps people speak up for their needs.
She also brings humor into sessions as a coping skill. Her work centers on adult mental health, substance use concerns, and trauma.
Background and approach
She has experience in inpatient, residential, jail, crisis intervention, and outpatient mental health settings. Those varied roles inform how she tailors interventions to different situations. Julie draws on cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy techniques to teach emotion regulation and coping strategies.
She blends those methods with client-centered principles so sessions are guided by the person’s goals and values. Motivational interviewing and mindfulness tools are also part of her approach when helpful. People often come to her for help with self-esteem, confidence, grief, anger, career stress, addictions, and compassion fatigue.
She also supports those navigating bipolar symptoms and co-occurring conditions. Her aim is to improve daily functioning and relationships through clear strategies and steady support. Julie is licensed clinical social worker, LCSW, and holds licenses in Arizona and Oregon among others.
She offers evening and weekend video, phone, live chat, and messaging options to fit busy schedules.
Approaches that translate to online care
Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening and shaping sessions around what matters most to the person. It helps clarify goals and keeps work focused on everyday challenges like anxiety, stress, and relationship boundaries.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, behaviors, and feelings interact. It teaches concrete strategies for managing anxiety, mood, and unhelpful thinking patterns through practice and homework between sessions.
Dialectical behavior therapy, DBT, offers skills for regulating intense emotions and improving interpersonal effectiveness. It can be useful for anger, emotion dysregulation, and co-occurring issues where steady coping skills are needed.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about needs, goals, and preferences and then try methods that fit. Adjustments are made over time so the plan matches what helps in real life.
Online sessions are offered by licensed professionals via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for longer work and skill teaching, phone sessions can fit into a short break or when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging is handy for quick check-ins and ongoing support between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and different day-to-day needs.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Grief
- LGBT
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Georgia, Wisconsin, Arizona, Washington, Oregon
- Languages
- English
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