About Julie
Julie Barrett is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) practicing in California with 24 years of experience. She focuses on practical help for everyday problems.
Background and approach
Parents and individuals often seek her out for stress, anxiety, and relationship concerns. She works in a straightforward, supportive way.
Sessions focus on steps you can take now to reduce stress, build confidence, and improve relationships. She uses clear tools and talks through options together so clients leave with a plan.
Her background includes long experience helping people with parenting challenges, grief, addiction concerns, and trauma recovery. Julie also supports people facing career transitions, eating or anger issues, and the emotional impacts of ADHD.
She is familiar with LGBT concerns and helps clients navigate identity and relationship questions. Julie draws on a mix of approaches to fit each person.
She uses Client-Centered ideas to listen and build trust. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps change unhelpful thoughts and habits.
Other methods include Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, and Solution-Focused Therapy to make short-term progress and strengthen coping skills. Therapy is offered in English and delivered online by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Julie guides clients through choices about goals and techniques, and she helps them find practical ways to apply what they learn between sessions.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening without judgment and helping clients find their own solutions; it is useful when someone needs space to process feelings and build confidence. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches concrete skills to reduce anxiety, depression, and unhelpful habits. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches practical skills for emotion regulation and coping with intense feelings, which can help with anger, stress, and relationship tensions.Choosing the right approach happens together. The therapist will discuss goals, try techniques, and adjust plans based on what works and what feels comfortable. That collaborative process helps match methods to a person's needs rather than assuming one path fits everyone.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is suited to deeper conversations and visual cues, phone works when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed, chat can be helpful for brief exchanges or notes between sessions, and text messaging allows ongoing support and reminders. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, parenting, or busy schedules while keeping care consistent.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Grief
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English