About Julie
Julie Yliniemi is a Minnesota licensed professional counselor with ten years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship concerns. Julie also supports clients coping with trauma and abuse and works to build motivation, self-esteem, and confidence.
Julie creates a calm, nonjudgmental setting where people can talk through hard thoughts and feelings. She aims to make sessions practical and straightforward so clients leave with a clear next step.
Background and approach
Julie encourages small, manageable changes that add up over time. Her background includes a decade of work in counseling settings across Minnesota. That experience shapes a flexible style that adapts to each person’s needs.
She pays attention to how life stressors, work, and health can affect mood and relationships. Julie often helps clients facing chronic pain, illness, or disability to find ways to cope day to day. She also supports people dealing with control issues, divorce and separation, guilt and shame, and impulsivity.
Topics like life purpose, workplace problems, pregnancy and childbirth concerns, post-traumatic stress, and self-love are within her scope. Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented. Julie works with each person to set realistic goals and to track progress.
Her approach is collaborative and grounded in practical strategies that clients can use between sessions.
Evidence-based methods and online care
Julie uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. One common approach she uses emphasizes identifying thought patterns that maintain anxiety and low mood, then practicing new ways of thinking and acting to reduce symptoms. This approach works well for stress, anxiety, and depression. Another approach centers on processing past trauma at a manageable pace while teaching grounding and coping skills to reduce distress. That method is aimed at trauma, post-traumatic stress, and the emotional effects of abuse.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Julie will work with each person to figure out which techniques match their needs, goals, and preferences. She adjusts methods over time and checks in regularly to make sure the work feels helpful and realistic.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and comfort levels. Video lets people use visual cues and a fuller conversation. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit into a break at work. Live chat and text messaging make it possible to check in or do shorter, focused work between longer sessions. These options make it easier to attend regular sessions despite busy lives or mobility limits.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English