About Julie
Julie Faflik is a licensed professional counselor from Texas who focuses on practical, evidence-based care. She draws on several approaches to help people facing anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship strain, and life transitions. Julie listens first and builds a plan with each person.
She aims to make sessions straightforward and useful for everyday life. Julie holds a master's degree in Counseling Psychology from the University of Texas at El Paso. She has worked in community mental health and spent a year and a half in crisis services.
Background and approach
That experience shaped how she responds to strong emotions like anger, panic, and grief. It also informed her work with people coping with addiction, bipolar disorder, and compassion fatigue. In sessions she adapts methods to fit the person.
She may use cognitive behavioral techniques to challenge unhelpful thinking. She incorporates mindfulness practices to improve emotion regulation and present-moment awareness. Motivational interviewing can help when someone is unsure about change.
Julie often focuses on relationship issues such as communication, attachment concerns, commitment worries, and intimacy-related struggles. She also helps with parenting stress, career crossroads, and questions about life purpose. Additional areas include eating and sleeping difficulties, ADHD, and recovery from trauma and abuse.
Her style is collaborative and direct. Julie believes the client’s story matters and that therapy should reflect that story. She invites people to share at their own pace and works with them to set clear, achievable goals.
How Julie's approaches work online
Julie often uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. This approach is practical and can reduce anxiety, low mood, and unhelpful habits by focusing on concrete skills and small behavior changes.She also incorporates mindfulness practices to build present-moment awareness and improve emotion regulation. These techniques can help with stress, anger, sleep problems, and managing intense reactions after trauma.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will ask about needs, goals, and preferences and will adapt methods as therapy progresses. Clients and the therapist decide together which techniques fit best for the issues at hand.
Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules. Video is useful for full conversations and nonverbal cues, while phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Text messaging and live chat offer quick check-ins and flexible contact between longer sessions. These options make it easier to keep regular appointments around work, caregiving, or travel.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English