About Julie
Julie Fels is a licensed LPCC in Ohio who helps people manage stress, anxiety, anger, depression, and issues with self-esteem. She supports people coping with life changes, grief, parenting strain, trauma and abuse, and mood concerns including bipolar symptoms. Julie also pays attention to caregiver stress, first responder issues, impulsivity, and obsessive-compulsive patterns.
She keeps sessions straightforward and practical. Conversations focus on what matters now and on small, doable steps.
Background and approach
She listens for strengths and builds plans around daily life rather than fitting people to a rigid model. Julie draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to address mood and behavior patterns. She explains tools in plain language and helps people practice them between sessions.
Her goal is to make strategies usable during real moments of stress or decision-making. Her background includes 14 years working with adults in a range of settings. That experience informs a flexible approach that can shift if something isn’t working.
She emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and a nonjudgmental tone in every session. Clients can expect sessions tailored to their needs and paced to their comfort. Julie frames therapy as a partnership where people set goals and try methods to see what helps.
She aims to support and empower people as they work toward clearer priorities and improved daily functioning.
How evidence-based approaches work online
Julie uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on behavior and mood. Cognitive-style approaches teach people to notice unhelpful thoughts and test them with real-life experiments; this helps with anxiety, low mood, and obsessive thinking. Skills-based strategies teach breathing, grounding, and activity planning so someone has concrete options during strong emotions.She also uses problem-focused methods to break big stressors into small steps and reduce impulsive reactions. These approaches help with anger, caregiver strain, first responder stress, and mood swings by giving clear actions to try between sessions.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Julie will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they pick methods to try and adjust them based on what helps most in day-to-day life.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or for a quick check-in. Live chat and text messaging let people send updates, ask questions between meetings, or use shorter, on-the-go support while juggling work or caregiving.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English