About Julie
Julie Wilson is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with ten years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, relationship problems, trauma, grief, and self-esteem concerns. She uses a warm, down-to-earth style and aims to make therapy feel straightforward and approachable for people who are worried or overwhelmed.
Julie pays attention to both what shows up in the room and what lies beneath conscious awareness. She blends somatic awareness with attachment ideas and client-centered listening to help people notice bodily cues, feel more grounded, and understand relational patterns.
Background and approach
Sessions are practical and paced to each persons needs. Her approach also draws on emotion-focused work and skills from dialectical behavior therapy when helpful. That mix supports people coping with intense emotions, addictive behaviors, sleep or eating struggles, and difficult life changes.
She explains tools clearly and practices them with clients in session. Julie trained in counseling psychology and in East-West psychology, and she holds a Master of Arts in each area. As an LMFT she brings a relational lens to problems like attachment wounds, codependency, communication issues, and caregiver stress.
She works with a broad range of concerns including ADHD, bipolar mood matters, intimacy-related issues, and identity-related stress such as LGBT concerns. Sessions are designed to be nonjudgmental, grounded, and focused on small, useful steps forward.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Somatic work pays attention to bodily signals and simple movements to help people notice stress and regulate emotion; online sessions can include guided body awareness and breath-based practices that people try in their own space. Attachment-based work looks at patterns in relationships and how early connections affect current bonds, helping people name recurring dynamics and try new ways of connecting during conversation. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening without judgment and reflecting back what is said to help people feel heard and understood, creating space to explore values and choices.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the therapeutic process. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit best, adjusting based on needs, goals, and preferences rather than sticking to a single model.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. That makes it easier to access appointments from home, practice exercises between sessions, and choose the format that fits a persons routine and comfort level. Licensed professionals can adapt exercises and supports so online work feels practical and relevant to everyday life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- 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