About Julie
Julie Barrett is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 24 years of clinical experience. She practices in California and focuses on helping people who are feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or burned out. Her approach is practical and straightforward, aimed at small changes that add up over time.
Clients come to her for anxiety, stress, depression, and challenges with relationships. She also supports people facing grief, trauma aftereffects, addiction concerns, and struggles with self-esteem.
Background and approach
ADHD is listed among the concerns she addresses when it affects daily life and functioning. Julie blends client-centered listening with proven methods to build skills for day-to-day problems. She uses cognitive behavioral techniques to reshape unhelpful thoughts and behavioral experiments to test new ways of coping.
Dialectical behavior skills are offered when strong emotions and intense reactions are getting in the way. She often uses motivational interviewing to help people find energy for change and solution-focused strategies to set clear, attainable goals. Sessions tend to be collaborative and goal-oriented, with attention to practical steps between meetings.
Julie aims to make progress feel manageable and realistic. Her style is warm and direct. She helps people break big problems into doable tasks.
Julie encourages straightforward conversations about priorities, barriers, and next steps, so clients leave sessions with actions they can try.
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person's perspective. It involves open conversation and empathy to help people feel heard and to identify what matters most to them in therapy.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors influence feelings. It uses practical exercises and small experiments to change unhelpful thinking and to build coping skills for anxiety, depression, and daily stressors.
Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, teaches concrete skills for managing intense emotions and improving interpersonal effectiveness. It is useful when strong reactions or mood swings interfere with work, relationships, or daily functioning.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. That choice can change over time as progress is made or as new challenges arise.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a visual connection helps, while phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier during a busy day. Live chat and text-based messaging are helpful for quick check-ins, brief coaching, or when someone prefers written communication. The range of formats is intended to make ongoing care more flexible and easier to fit into daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- 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
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