About Julie
Julie Barzal is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker who works with adults and adolescents on stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, and relationship concerns. She brings a direct and compassionate style that helps people talk through what feels most urgent. Her approach is practical and person-focused.
Julie uses clear, goal-oriented methods in sessions so progress feels measurable. She listens closely and helps people build small, workable changes that fit daily life.
Background and approach
Clients can expect straightforward strategies for coping, plus space to process feelings. With seven years of clinical experience, Julie has supported people through grief, addiction, compassion fatigue, trauma, and parenting stress. She has worked with LGBTQ-IA concerns, blended family issues, and chronic illness challenges.
Her background includes telehealth counseling, crisis work, and case management. Julie holds MA LICSW and is licensed in Ohio as an LISW. She emphasizes cultural humility, gender and identity inclusion, and a strengths-based focus.
Her sessions combine active listening with practical skill-building to match each person’s needs. Julie aims to make therapy a collaborative process. She will help set goals and choose strategies that feel manageable.
She encourages people to take small steps and notice concrete improvements. Outside of work she shares that she is ambidextrous, became a mom as a teenager, and returned to college later in life to earn her bachelor’s and master’s degrees. Those experiences inform her belief that change is possible at any stage.
Approaches that guide online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts without getting stuck and focus instead on values-based action. It is often useful for anxiety, stress, and when someone wants clearer direction during life changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thinking and behavior and teaches practical skills to change them. CBT is helpful for depression, anxiety, ADHD-related challenges, and building routine skills.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Julie will collaborate with each person to pick strategies that match their goals, preferences, and day-to-day reality. That means trying methods, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan over time.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy schedules and different life demands. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Text, live chat, and messaging are useful for brief check-ins, skill reminders, and between-session support. These options make it easier to fit sessions into work, school, or caregiving routines while using evidence-based approaches described above.
Questions people ask
What concerns does Julie focus on?
What is her therapy style like?
How much clinical experience does she have?
What credentials and location are on record?
Which languages and international options are available?
Which session formats does she offer?
How does pricing work?
How do I begin working with her?
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Ohio, Massachusetts
- Languages
- English
We will earn a commission if you sign up through our link, at no cost to you.