About Julie
Julie Tallard Johnson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Wisconsin who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, grief, and relationship or intimacy concerns. She brings a calm, practical style to sessions and listens without judgment. Her approach blends conversation with simple tools people can use right away.
Julie emphasizes the relationship between therapist and client. She believes a genuine connection makes change possible. In sessions she focuses on the client’s story and what shows up in the body as they talk.
Background and approach
That combination helps people notice patterns and try new ways of responding. She uses written and taught tools alongside inquiry and moment-to-moment awareness. Cognitive-behavioral ideas are often part of this work, especially when identifying thoughts and testing new behaviors.
She also integrates somatic awareness, breath practices, and narrative work to help people connect feeling and meaning. Julie has worked as a therapist for more than three decades, including both in-person and online work. She describes her role as navigator rather than director - clients set the goals and she offers methods to reach them.
She also writes about trauma recovery and practical wellbeing strategies in her books. Sessions are geared toward gaining insight, building coping skills, and creating small, doable steps forward. Julie aims to help people reclaim their sense of agency and find ways to live from the inside out.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Julie often draws from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and take action toward what matters to them. ACT supports identifying values and choosing behaviors that align with those values even when hard feelings are present. CBT focuses on recognizing thought patterns and trying practical behavior changes to reduce distress.She also uses Client-Centered ideas in sessions, offering a compassionate, nonjudgmental stance that prioritizes the client’s experience. This means the therapist listens closely, reflects what she hears, and helps the client lead the work while offering options and tools.
Finding the right approach is part of the process and is decided collaboratively. The therapist will work with the client to match methods to goals, symptoms, and personal preferences rather than insisting on one fixed method. That collaborative planning helps shape session focus and homework between meetings.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for interactive skill practice and deeper conversation. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for brief check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for quick updates, journaling-style reflection, or when someone prefers not to be on camera. These options provide flexibility to fit therapy into work, caregiving, and daily life.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 33 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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