About Julia
Dr. Julia Kaluga is a licensed marriage and family therapist practicing in California. She holds a Doctor of Psychology and brings 14 years of clinical experience to her work.
Dr. Kaluga listens closely and helps people take practical steps when life feels overwhelming. She commonly supports people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and struggles with self-esteem.
She also addresses relationship concerns, substance use, trauma and abuse, and ADHD. Her work includes support around career strain, parenting challenges, and issues related to gender identity and sexual orientation.
Background and approach
In sessions she uses straightforward tools from cognitive behavioral approaches and acceptance-based strategies. Clients learn ways to notice unhelpful thoughts, make values-based choices, and build small routines that improve daily functioning. Mindfulness exercises and skills from dialectical behavior therapy are offered as practical tools for managing strong emotions.
Dr. Kaluga adapts her style to what each person prefers. She aims for a calm, focused session where people can talk through immediate worries and set short-term goals.
Sessions mix conversation, skill practice, and planning so people leave with concrete steps they can try between meetings. She provides services in English and Russian. People can meet by video call, phone, live chat, or text messaging.
To begin, a short matching questionnaire is used to connect someone with the right schedule and session format.
Approaches that meet you online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small actions toward those values even when difficult thoughts or feelings are present. It is often used for stress, anxiety, and life transitions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing them with practical behavioral experiments. It is commonly used for depression, anxiety, and building new routines that reduce symptoms.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers concrete skills for managing intense emotions, improving distress tolerance, and strengthening interpersonal effectiveness. Those skills can help during times of crisis or ongoing emotional volatility.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods match their goals, needs, and preferences. That choice can shift as progress is made or as new issues appear.
Online sessions are available by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit varied schedules. Video allows face-to-face conversation and practice of skills, phone calls can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat can work for short check-ins or ongoing coaching-style support. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy days.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Russian
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