About Julie
Julie Ann Hexum is a licensed clinical social worker in Utah who offers practical, evidence-informed psychotherapy for adults. She focuses on everyday struggles like anxiety, depression, grief, and major life changes. Julie writes plain, direct plans and helps people take small steps that fit their lives.
Julie uses proven therapeutic techniques to help people manage stress, addictions, compassion fatigue, and relationship problems. She also supports work on parenting concerns, sleep and eating issues, anger, self-esteem, and career questions.
Background and approach
Her practice covers a wide range of situations including attachment concerns, adoption and foster care matters, chronic illness, and caregiving strain. Sessions aim to build clearer thinking and steady coping skills. Julie works collaboratively to set goals and tries interventions that match the person’s strengths and situation.
She keeps the focus practical so people can use what they learn between sessions. With four years of clinical experience, Julie has helped people facing trauma, mood disorders, dissociation, and difficult separations. Her work includes attention to intimacy-related issues, bipolar concerns, ADHD, and body image struggles.
She also supports those coping with cancer, aging issues, and blended family dynamics. Julie provides therapy in English and conducts sessions by video call, phone, live chat, or text messaging. She is licensed as an LCSW - a licensed clinical social worker - in Utah and holds the registration UT LCSW 11419840-3501.
To begin, people complete a short intake questionnaire and schedule sessions according to availability.
How evidence-informed approaches work online
Julie draws from evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on clear goals and practical steps. One common approach she uses helps people identify unhelpful thinking patterns and try different ways of responding in daily life; this is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress. Another approach emphasizes developing coping skills and grounding strategies to manage overwhelming feelings and cravings, which can help with trauma reactions, addictions, and intense emotional states.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. Together they try methods that fit the person’s life and adjust the plan as needed so the work feels relevant and manageable.
Online therapy here is offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text messaging to make sessions more flexible. Video calls allow fuller face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat or text messaging can suit quick check-ins and brief support between appointments. These options help people fit therapy around work, caregiving, and daily demands while keeping focus on progress and practical change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Utah
- Languages
- English