About Julie
Julie Featherman is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in Florida and a Licensed Professional Counselor in Virginia. She brings three years of clinical counseling experience alongside nearly 20 years in other fields like marketing and education. Julie works with people facing anxiety, depression, grief, relationship and family stress, career challenges, addiction concerns, bipolar mood issues, and self-esteem struggles.
Her background includes work in nonprofit settings, a residential crisis stabilization unit, community mental health, and independent practice.
Background and approach
That mix gives practical perspective on short-term crisis care and longer-term therapy. She has particular experience supporting people with body-focused repetitive behaviors such as trichotillomania and skin-picking. Julie’s approach is warm and non-judgmental.
She treats people with respect and focuses on clear goals. Sessions combine cognitive-behavioral ideas, psychodynamic thinking, and solution-focused methods to fit each person’s needs. She partners with clients to set manageable goals and track progress over time.
Therapy conversations are collaborative and tailored, with an emphasis on practical steps between sessions. Julie aims to help clients notice what changes improve daily life. If someone is ready to make a change, she offers steady support and practical problem-solving.
Julie works in English and is available to international clients through online formats and other session options.
Evidence-based approaches and online access
Julie uses a mix of evidence-based techniques to help people manage symptoms and reach goals. Cognitive-behavioral approaches focus on identifying unhelpful thinking and changing behaviors; they are useful for anxiety, depression, and many daily-life problems. Psychodynamic ideas look at how past patterns and relationships influence current feelings and choices, helping with deeper emotional understanding. Solution-focused techniques emphasize practical steps and measurable goals, which can be helpful when people want fast, focused change.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Julie will work with each person to find which techniques fit their needs, goals, and preferences and adjust the plan as progress is made. The process is collaborative and goal-oriented, with clear check-ins about what is working.
Online therapy offers flexibility and practical benefits. Video calls let people have full face-to-face conversation from different locations. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and work well for brief check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to fit short updates into a busy day and to reflect in writing between sessions. These options help people access care around schedules and life demands.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Grief
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Virginia, Florida
- Languages
- English