About Julie
Julie Gallivan is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) based in Michigan who focuses on practical support for everyday struggles. She helps people manage anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties, and changes at home or work. Her style is warm and straightforward, aiming to make therapy understandable and useful for real life.
Julie uses a mix of approaches to meet each person's needs. She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to address unhelpful thoughts and habits.
Background and approach
She also uses acceptance and commitment ideas and client-centered work to help people clarify values and build actions that fit their goals. Clients can expect clear goals and down-to-earth tools. Julie often works on communication skills, coping strategies for stress, and ways to regulate strong emotions like anger or impulsivity.
She also supports people dealing with grief, trauma, addiction, and caregiver strain. Her background includes six years of counseling experience in Michigan and practice with a wide range of concerns such as parenting stress, blended family issues, adoption and foster care topics, and body image.
She is comfortable addressing mood conditions including bipolar disorder and depression, as well as attention-related challenges like ADHD. Sessions are aimed at practical change while honoring each person’s story. Julie focuses on strengths, clearer communication, and small steps that add up.
She works collaboratively to match methods to what a client needs now and into the future.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying what matters to you and taking actions that align with those values while accepting difficult thoughts and feelings. It can help with anxiety, depression, and life transitions by encouraging meaningful steps even when things feel hard. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) targets the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and offers concrete skills to change patterns that worsen mood or anxiety. CBT is useful for stress, depression, and unhelpful habits. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental relationship where the therapist listens closely and follows the client's pace, which can be especially helpful for building trust and exploring identity or relationship concerns.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Julie will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. Together they will try methods that fit current needs and adjust the plan over time so the work stays relevant and practical.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let people use visual cues and work through exercises in real time. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth or comfort on camera is a concern. Live chat and text-based messaging allow brief check-ins, ongoing reflection, or support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit counseling into busy schedules and to choose the format that best matches the task at hand.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English