About Julie
Julie Wilson is a licensed marriage and family therapist who helps people manage stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, trauma, and issues with self-esteem. She brings a warm, down-to-earth presence and uses a practical style that fits everyday life.
Background and approach
Parents and individuals looking for steady support will find straightforward guidance and a calm, respectful tone. Her work leans on attachment ideas and client-centered methods to build trust and clarity.
She also draws from dialectical behavior techniques and emotion-focused ways of working to help people name feelings and change patterns. Sessions often mix steady listening with hands-on tools for coping and communication.
Julie takes both immediate concerns and deeper life questions into account. She pays attention to how past relationships shape current reactions and helps people untangle patterns like codependency, abandonment fears, and communication problems.
She also addresses practical challenges such as sleep, eating, and parenting stress. With ten years of experience and a California LMFT credential, she combines clinical knowledge with a relatable style.
Her training includes study of depth psychology and Eastern-Western perspectives, which informs how she thinks about meaning and identity. Julie adapts to each person’s pace and needs.
Sessions are offered in English and are available through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. She supports people facing grief, addiction struggles, bipolar concerns, ADHD challenges, and intimacy-related issues, aiming to help clients build clearer relationships with themselves and others.
How attachment and skills work online
Julie integrates attachment-based ideas and client-centered care to help people understand relationship patterns and feel heard. Attachment-based work focuses on how early bonds shape current reactions and helps people develop steadier ways of relating. Client-centered therapy emphasizes empathy and the client’s own pace, encouraging people to name what matters and guide the direction of sessions.She also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) strategies to teach concrete skills for managing intense emotions and improving relationships. DBT offers straightforward tools for distress tolerance, emotional regulation, and clear communication that can be practiced between sessions.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Together they decide which methods to emphasize and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, and chat or text can be useful for short check-ins or when writing feels easier. These options help people keep therapy consistent while balancing work, family, and daily demands.
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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