About Julianna
Julianna Murphy helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, or life transitions. She supports those coping with relationship strain, family problems, grief, eating concerns, and workplace stress. Julianna also works with people facing ADHD, bipolar mood challenges, caregiving strain, and issues around self-esteem and body image.
Julianna brings six years of clinical experience to her sessions. She holds an Illinois LCPC and an Indiana LMHC, and uses straightforward, practical methods.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on clear goals and real-world skills rather than jargon or abstract theory. Her style is warm and nonjudgmental. She creates space for people to say what matters to them and talks through options together.
Clients learn strategies for managing panic, mood swings, anger, and chronic pain related distress. Methods include cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thinking, acceptance and commitment ideas to build values-based action, and mindfulness practices to lower reactivity. Dialectical behavior strategies are used when emotion regulation and distress tolerance are needed.
Julianna also pays attention to life purpose, career questions, and the challenges of pregnancy, postpartum, and seasonal mood shifts. She offers coaching-style support when people want practical steps toward goals. Work is collaborative and paced to each person’s needs.
How Julianna’s Approaches Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It helps people clarify what matters to them and take small actions that match those values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and teaches practical skills to change them, which can help with anxiety, panic, and depressive symptoms. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve focus in daily life.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively to choose tools that match a person’s goals and preferences. Sessions often blend elements of these methods so the plan fits real needs rather than a single label.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let the therapist and client work face to face for skills practice and deeper conversation. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to get support between sessions or when written reflection feels best. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and varied life demands.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Indiana
- Languages
- English