About Julie
Julie Elliott is an experienced clinician who combines a medical background with social work practice. She holds an MD and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker credential, and brings 35 years of clinical experience to her practice in Texas. She has also worked internationally and draws on that broader perspective in her work.
Her style is straightforward and focused on practical change. Sessions tend to center on clear goals and tools the person can use between meetings.
Background and approach
Julie listens for what matters most and helps people name patterns that get in the way of feeling better. She often helps with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and addiction concerns. Other areas she addresses include relationship and intimacy issues, grief, parenting strain, sleep and eating problems, and career or life transitions.
She also supports people facing caregiver stress, attachment concerns, and challenges tied to adoption or blended families. Julie uses approaches that emphasize connection, personal meaning, and skills. She draws on attachment-based thinking and client-centered conversation alongside practical strategies from cognitive behavioral and dialectical approaches.
That mix is used to match the work to each person’s needs. People who reach out can expect a collaborative, paced approach. Julie helps set priorities and offers ways to practice new responses outside sessions.
The aim is to reduce distress and build coping skills people can rely on in daily life.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early connections shape current relationships. It helps people spot recurring patterns in how they seek closeness and safety, and then practice healthier ways of relating. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches concrete skills to challenge unhelpful thinking and build new habits for managing anxiety, depression, and stress.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Julie will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and then choose or combine approaches that fit. That collaborative process helps tailor sessions to what the person needs right now rather than using a single fixed method.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls let people meet face-to-face when travel is difficult. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging offer brief check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options increase flexibility while keeping the focus on practical progress and day-to-day coping skills.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed
- Texas, Connecticut, Maryland, New Hampshire
- Languages
- English