About Julie
Julie Tallard Johnson greets visitors with a calm, direct style. She focuses on common struggles like stress, anxiety, grief, depression, addiction, and parenting strain. Julie emphasizes practical support alongside space to tell your story and be heard.
She holds a Master’s in Social Work and is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. Her license is WI LCSW 3755-123 and she has worked as a therapist for decades. Julie prefers a relational way of working.
Background and approach
She places the therapeutic relationship at the center and helps people name the stories they tell about themselves. Sessions often include simple strategies and inquiry into patterns that get in the way of how a person wants to live. Her approach blends narrative and somatic ideas with cognitive-behavioral tools.
That means talking about life experiences while also noticing how feelings show up in the body. Breath and awareness practices may be used to support coping and groundedness. Julie describes clients as the driver of the work and herself as a guide.
She offers clear options and practical steps so people can try things between sessions. Education and short, usable tools are part of most meetings. She has worked online and in person for many years and continues to update her skills.
Julie has also written books about healing, trauma, and everyday wellbeing. Her style is warm, straightforward, and focused on helping people make real changes they can feel.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Julie often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice painful thoughts and choose actions that match their values; it can be useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions. She also draws on Client-Centered Therapy, which emphasizes a warm, listening stance that helps people feel understood and explore their own solutions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used for identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and practicing small behavioral changes to reduce symptoms like depression or insomnia.Deciding which approach fits is a collaborative process. The therapist and client review goals, preferences, and early responses to different techniques. Julie treats clients as the lead in the work and will offer options so people can try approaches that feel most useful.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and shared exercises; phone sessions can be a good shorter check-in or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging let people check in between meetings or communicate when typing feels easier. These options help therapy fit into busy schedules and varied life demands.
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does Julie help with?
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
How much clinical experience does she have?
What are Julie's credentials and where is she located?
Which languages and international work are supported?
What session formats are available?
How does billing and cost work?
How do I begin working with her?
Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- 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