About Julia
Julia Szpakiewicz is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 15 years of experience. She offers steady support for people facing stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, trauma and abuse, eating challenges, and life transitions.
Background and approach
Julia speaks English and practices from Texas. Her work centers on helping people name the problems that feel overwhelming.
She treats worry and panic, tension in close relationships, and the aftermath of difficult experiences. She also helps with body image and eating concerns, workplace stress, and shifting life roles.
Julia believes clients know their own stories and brings that belief into sessions. She focuses on practical steps and on building strengths people already have.
Expect straightforward conversations, clear goals, and gentle encouragement toward change. Over 15 years she has worked across different settings and with varied concerns.
That experience informs how she tailors practical tools to individual needs. Sessions aim to reduce distress and increase daily functioning in ways that fit each person.
Her approach emphasizes collaboration and steady pacing. She supports people processing guilt, shame, attachment struggles, post-traumatic stress, and challenges around self-love and communication.
Julia frames therapy as a stepwise process toward more manageable days.
Therapeutic approaches and online options that fit your life
Julia uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques focused on practical change and emotional processing. One common approach she uses helps people identify unhelpful patterns in thinking and behavior and replace them with more effective actions; this can ease anxiety and improve daily coping. Another approach centers on processing difficult experiences and reducing their hold on current life, which can be useful for trauma, post-traumatic stress, and deep feelings of guilt or shame.Choosing the right method is a team effort. She will discuss which techniques match a person’s goals, needs, and comfort level, and adapt the plan over time. The aim is a collaborative path that feels doable and clear rather than overwhelming.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video helps with face-to-face conversation and nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in fits a busy day. Live chat and text messaging are useful for quick check-ins, ongoing support between sessions, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to keep continuity of care while fitting therapy into everyday life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- California, Texas, New Jersey, Tennessee
- Languages
- English