About Julie
Dr. Julie Griffin is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with 18 years of clinical experience based in Indiana. She holds a doctorate in psychology and has worked across schools, hospitals, prisons, group homes, and community mental health settings.
Julie focuses on creating a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can share what they are facing and begin to make practical changes. Her background includes work with adults, children, and adolescents in many settings.
Background and approach
She has experience in substance abuse programs, anger management, parenting and family reunification classes, and in-home support with developmentally delayed and autistic youth. This range of work helps her adapt to each person's situation and needs. Julie uses a strength-based, individualized way of working.
She draws on somatic ideas that connect body and emotion, along with approaches that help people notice thoughts and patterns and build new coping skills. Sessions are collaborative and paced to what a person can manage in the moment. She combines practical techniques with attention to relationships and attachment.
That can include learning to tolerate strong feelings, improving communication, and trying small behavioral shifts at home. Julie also brings experience addressing grief, trauma, addiction, sleep and eating concerns, and identity-related stress. Outside the work, she enjoys arts and crafts, games, and time with animals.
She has used therapeutic animals in her practice and finds they often help people relax and connect. Julie encourages people to take the first step and reach out when they are ready.
How Julie's Approaches Work Online
Somatic-informed work helps people notice how stress and strong emotions show up in the body. It can help with chronic pain, anxiety, trauma reactions, and grounding when feelings feel overwhelming.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing thoughts and choosing actions that match personal values. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes by building flexibility rather than eliminating all uncomfortable thoughts.
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how past relationships affect current patterns. It can help people improve communication, trust, and emotional regulation in close relationships.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Together they try methods and adjust the plan based on what is working in day-to-day life.
Online sessions can be held by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit busy schedules and different comfort levels. These options make it easier to keep continuity of care, practice skills between meetings, and get support from home or another familiar place.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English