About Julie
Julie Batson is a licensed clinical social worker with 20 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, depression, and life transitions. She works with adults who want practical ways to feel steadier and more confident. Julie practices from Missouri and brings a calm, respectful approach to each conversation.
She focuses on building a clear plan with each person. Sessions are tailored to what the client needs that week, whether that is short-term coping or longer work on deeper issues.
Background and approach
Julie uses straightforward talk, skill-building, and gentle challenge to help people notice patterns and try new responses. Her background includes long-term clinical work supporting people facing grief, caregiving stress, chronic illness, and identity concerns such as LGBT issues. She also assists people dealing with parenting strain, intimacy questions, career stress, burnout, and attention difficulties.
Julie’s practice pays attention to how early relationships and attachment shape present behavior. Julie typically draws on client-centered conversation, cognitive behavioral ideas, attachment-informed perspectives, and elements of mindfulness to help people manage emotions and change behavior. She explains techniques clearly and practices them together with clients in session.
People who benefit tend to want a practical, compassionate guide rather than labels. Julie aims to help clients build tools they can use between sessions and to support them as they try changes in real life.
Therapeutic approaches for online work and connection
Julie commonly combines client-centered care with cognitive behavioral methods to support people online. Client-centered work focuses on listening and responding to what matters most to the client, helping them set the pace and goals. Cognitive behavioral ideas look at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact and introduce practical exercises to test new ways of thinking and behaving.She also brings attachment-informed ideas into sessions to look at how early relationship patterns influence current struggles. That approach helps when people want to understand why they react strongly in certain relationships and learn new ways to connect. Choosing the right approach is collaborative - the therapist and client discuss goals, try methods, and adjust as they learn what fits best.
Online therapy here uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video lets people work face to face when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging are useful for short check-ins, homework support, or when a quick touchpoint fits a busy schedule.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- 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
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- 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
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English