About Julie
Julie Thomas is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 25 years in the counseling field. She brings a calm, practical style to sessions and focuses on helping people manage everyday struggles like anxiety, depression, grief, and relationship stress. Her work is straightforward and grounded in respect for each person’s experience.
She trained at the University of Central Oklahoma, earning a Master of Education in Community Counseling. Over the years she has worked in outpatient counseling, therapeutic foster care, school-based counseling, and adoption services.
Background and approach
Those roles gave her experience with parenting concerns, adoption-related issues, attachment questions, and family-of-origin problems. Her counseling approach emphasizes strengths and collaboration. She treats the client as the expert on their life and helps build on the skills they already have.
Sessions often focus on practical steps people can use between meetings to feel steadier and more in control. Julie uses tools from client-centered therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, mindfulness, solution-focused work, and hypnotherapy. That mix allows her to tailor sessions to issues like trauma and abuse, coping with life changes, sleeping difficulties, anger, and compassion fatigue.
She also supports people facing ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, and complex family stress. Julie practices in Oklahoma and conducts sessions in English. She aims to help people develop clearer communication, reduce anxiety, and move through grief or life transition at a manageable pace.
How Julie’s Approaches Work Online
Julie blends client-centered work with cognitive behavioral therapy to help people tackle worry, low mood, and relationship conflict. Client-centered work focuses on listening, empathy, and helping the person identify their own goals, which is useful when someone needs space to sort feelings. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at thoughts and behaviors and teaches practical skills for anxiety, sleep problems, anger, and mood regulation.She also uses mindfulness practices to help people notice and respond differently to stress and strong emotions. Mindfulness teaching can include brief exercises to reduce reactivity and improve focus, useful for sleep, trauma-related anxiety, and compassion fatigue. These methods are chosen together with the client so the plan fits their needs and preferences rather than being imposed from the start.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text messaging to make care more flexible. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and therapeutic exercises, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text can be a shorter check-in or a way to communicate between longer sessions. This range of formats helps fit counseling into work, school, parenting, and other routines while allowing the therapist and client to try different ways of working.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma, Arizona
- Languages
- English