About Julie
Julie Duncan is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Louisiana. She focuses on helping people who are dealing with relationship tension, trauma and abuse, stress, anxiety, mood concerns, and questions about intimacy. She also supports people facing grief, addiction, ADHD, parenting strain, and identity-related concerns.
Julie aims to make the first step easier by offering a calm, judgment-free space to talk. She encourages open conversation about feelings and everyday challenges.
Background and approach
Sessions are straightforward and focused on practical next steps that fit each person's life. With 15 years of experience, Julie has worked with many kinds of concerns across relationship and individual struggles. She draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide conversations and set small goals.
Meetings are paced to match what a person needs right now. Julie often helps people untangle communication problems, commitment worries, and attachment issues. She also addresses body image, caregiving stress, chronic illness impacts, and life transitions.
Clients may bring questions about spiritual beliefs, career choices, or coping with trauma. Her work includes attention to blended family challenges, codependency, and recovering from abandonment or loss. She supports people navigating addiction, bipolar and depressive symptoms, sleep and eating difficulties, and compassion fatigue.
The focus is on practical coping, clearer thinking, and reclaiming a sense of control.
How evidence-based approaches translate online
Julie uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on clear goals and practical change. One approach emphasizes structured conversation and skill building to manage anxiety and stress; it helps people learn new ways to respond to strong emotions and break unhelpful patterns. Another approach concentrates on processing trauma and rebuilding safety in relationships by naming feelings, testing new responses, and practicing calmer communication.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Julie talks with each person about their goals, preferences, and life demands, then tries approaches that feel like a fit. Together they adjust techniques over time so the work stays useful and relevant.
Online formats make regular contact easier to arrange. Video calls allow deeper face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is low or a check-in fits a busy day, and live chat or text-based messaging suit quick updates or shorter exchanges between sessions. These options help people keep momentum and access support from wherever they are in Louisiana.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English