About Julie
Julie Schehr is a licensed clinical social worker in New Jersey with 25 years of professional experience. She focuses on helping people facing life changes, new medical diagnoses, and stressful transitions. She takes a warm, engaging approach and aims to build a practical working relationship with each person she sees.
Clients often come with concerns like anxiety, grief, depression, sleep problems, or low self esteem. Julie emphasizes short-term work that teaches clear strategies and skills.
Background and approach
Her goal is for people to leave therapy with tools they can use on their own. Julie primarily uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which helps people identify patterns of thinking and behavior that keep problems going. She pairs that approach with goal-focused sessions that target what the client wants to change.
Sessions are collaborative and concrete, with practice between meetings when appropriate. Her background includes extensive work on the medical side, so she supports people facing serious health issues and those caring for someone with a diagnosis. She also helps people navigating career shifts, breakups, midlife transitions, fertility or hospice-related stress, and the isolation that can follow major life events.
Julie believes every story is different and listens to how events have affected each person. She works as a team member with clients to set clear treatment goals. The emphasis is on learning skills, gaining confidence, and making practical changes that fit everyday life.
CBT and Practical Support Delivered Online
Julie most often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and change patterns that feed anxiety or depression. CBT breaks problems into manageable steps and teaches concrete skills to try between sessions.Her approach is collaborative. She will work with each person to decide which techniques fit their goals and situation. Together they will test ideas, set short-term targets, and adjust the plan as needed so the work stays focused on what matters to the client.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit busy lives. Video is useful for deeper conversations and visual cues. Phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Chat and text work well for quick updates, practice prompts, or continuing work between longer sessions. These options make it easier to connect from different places and to keep therapy consistent while juggling appointments, work, and caregiving responsibilities.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Fertility issues
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English