About Julie
Julie Hatfield is a licensed clinical social worker with 12 years of practice in Montana and North Dakota. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and challenges around parenting and self-esteem. Julie aims to meet each person where they are and tailor support to their needs.
She approaches sessions with respect, sensitivity, and compassion. Conversations are straightforward and focused on practical steps people can try between meetings. Julie gives space to talk about difficult experiences and helps clients build coping tools for day-to-day life.
Background and approach
Julie also supports those dealing with grief, anger, career transitions, bipolar mood concerns, and the strain that comes from caregiving or compassion fatigue. She has experience with adoption and foster care issues, blended family problems, and communication struggles. Her background includes work related to trauma, domestic violence, dissociation, and first responder stress.
People who prefer clear, direct guidance tend to find her style useful. She will work collaboratively to set goals and try small, measurable changes. Julie emphasizes steady progress rather than quick fixes.
Sessions can address relationship concerns, LGBT-related stress, and challenges tied to attention differences and impulsivity. She also has clinical familiarity with intellectual disability and disruptive mood concerns, and she adapts her approach to fit individual strengths and limits.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Many clients benefit from structured, evidence-based techniques that focus on thoughts, emotions, and behavior. Cognitive approaches help people identify unhelpful thinking patterns and try new responses that reduce anxiety or low mood. Skills-based methods teach concrete tools for managing stress, mood swings, and strong emotions so people can cope better day to day.Trauma-informed strategies create a careful way to talk about hard experiences without rushing. These strategies aim to stabilize reactions and build safety before addressing painful memories, and they are often useful for people affected by abuse, dissociation, or domestic violence.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to match methods to their goals, preferences, and current needs. Plans can change over time as progress is made or new priorities appear.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow a full conversation with visual cues, phone sessions may be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits short check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules and support continuity of care across locations.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- North Dakota, Montana
- Languages
- English