About Julie
Dr. Julie Griffin is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with 18 years of experience based in Indiana. She holds a doctorate in psychology and a master’s in clinical/counseling psychology, and she blends that background into straightforward, practical work with clients.
She creates a calm space for people to talk about what’s worrying them. Her style is warm and direct with an emphasis on building on strengths. Dr.
Griffin has a wide range of work settings in her background, including schools, hospitals, prisons, group homes, and outpatient programs.
Background and approach
That variety shaped how she responds to stress, trauma, addictions, and mood concerns. She has worked with adults and with children and adolescents earlier in her career, and she draws on those experiences when helping parents and caregivers navigate difficult moments.
Her approach mixes several evidence-informed methods such as cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy with attachment-focused work and emotionally-focused ideas. Sessions are collaborative and tailored to what each person needs. She uses practical tools people can try between sessions to change thinking patterns and daily routines.
Dr. Griffin is used to addressing relationship issues, grief, self-esteem, anger, sleep and eating concerns, and career or life transitions. ADHD is listed among the areas she supports.
She also works with people facing chronic illness, adoption and foster care concerns, and a range of attachment and communication problems. Outside of the office she enjoys arts and crafts, games, Legos, and spending time with animals, which have sometimes been part of her therapeutic work.
She welcomes the chance to listen and to help people move toward clearer daily routines and steadier moods.
Therapeutic approaches suited to online care
Dr. Griffin often uses cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy in her work. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing behaviors that keep problems going, which can help with anxiety, depression, and sleep or eating issues. Acceptance and commitment therapy helps people clarify what matters to them and take practical steps toward those values while learning to live with difficult thoughts and feelings.Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. She works collaboratively with clients to choose methods that match personal goals, symptoms, and daily life. That means trying techniques, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan together as progress is made.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for people with busy schedules or limited mobility. Video calls let therapists and clients meet face to face when a longer session or visual cues are useful. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for brief updates, skill practice between sessions, or when someone prefers writing to talking. These options make it easier to fit ongoing care into work, school, or family routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English
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