About Julie
Julie Ryan is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with seven years of experience offering warm, practical counseling. She uses a friendly, down-to-earth style to help people who feel overwhelmed, stuck, or burdened. Julie listens without judgment and helps clients set realistic goals for change.
She draws on several approaches to guide sessions, including acceptance and commitment ideas, client-centered listening, cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical skills, and EMDR for processing trauma. Sessions focus on changing unhelpful beliefs, building coping skills, and increasing self-awareness.
Background and approach
Julie may also weave in art-informed methods when that fits a person’s needs. Common concerns she addresses include stress, anxiety, depression, self-esteem, grief, trauma and abuse, career challenges, and coping with life changes. Conversations are practical and aimed at day-to-day relief as well as longer-term growth.
Julie emphasizes small, manageable steps that add up over time. Her background includes clinical mental health work across nonprofit agencies, a children’s advocacy center, primary care, independent practice, and intensive outpatient settings. She earned a master’s degree in social work from the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities and a bachelor of fine arts from the University of North Texas.
Julie practices in Texas and offers sessions in English. She invites people to come as they are and to start from whatever feels most helpful. The focus is on collaboration and building a plan that matches each person’s goals.
Therapeutic approaches in online sessions
Julie often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice painful thoughts and choose values-based actions instead of getting stuck. ACT is about accepting difficult feelings while still moving toward what matters. Client-Centered Therapy is another core part of her work; it centers the person’s experience and relies on listening, empathy, and respect to help someone find their own solutions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and to practice concrete skills that change mood and behavior.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Julie works collaboratively to figure out which methods match a person’s needs, goals, and preferences. That view guides how sessions are planned and which tools are practiced between meetings.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging support ongoing contact and quick skill practice between longer sessions. These formats aim to provide flexibility and consistent access to therapy from wherever someone is based in Texas.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Grief
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English