- Years in practice
- 6
- Credentials
- LMSW
- Licensed in
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Trauma and abuse
- Focus
- Grief
- Focus
- Parenting issues
About Julianne
Julianne Alston, LMSW, focuses on helping parents and caregivers manage parenting stress and strengthen relationships with their children. She uses straightforward language and practical strategies that parents can try between sessions. Her approach is calm and strengths-based, aimed at small changes that add up over time.
Julianne earned a clinical master’s in social work after studying sociology. She has six years of experience in clinical settings and a background in infant mental health that informs her work with early parent-child relationships.
Background and approach
She has worked across the lifespan, supporting newborns, toddlers, youth, teens, adults, and older adults in different clinical roles. In sessions she mixes tools from cognitive behavioral approaches with trauma-focused work when needed. She also uses motivational interviewing to help people find their own reasons for change.
Her focus often includes anxiety, grief, ADHD-related concerns, and coping with life transitions. She helps people build parenting skills and navigate blended family dynamics, adoption and foster care questions, and attachment concerns. She pays attention to caregiver stress, chronic illness impacts, and communication problems that make daily life harder.
Julianne describes her style as easy-going and advocacy-oriented. She works to identify practical steps, boost self-esteem, and reduce impulsivity and control-related struggles. Parents who want a collaborative partner for problem solving may find her approach useful.
What Julianne works with
Everything Julianne lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Julianne helps people with.
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- ADHD
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Life purpose
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Julianne lists
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Motivational Interviewing
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Approaches that fit parenting and trauma work
Julianne often integrates attachment-based ideas and trauma-focused work to address relationship and early-care relational hurts. Attachment-based approaches look at how early bonds affect current relationships and help parents learn new interaction patterns that can calm a distressed child. Trauma-focused therapy concentrates on reducing the hold of painful memories and the ways those memories affect daily life and parenting responses.She also uses cognitive behavioral ideas to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. CBT-style techniques can help with anxiety, anger control, and building predictable routines for children. Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process; the therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then adjust methods as needed.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits for parents and caregivers. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when scheduling around school and work is needed. Phone sessions can be a lower-bandwidth option for a focused check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief coaching, skill practice, and flexible communication between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit consistent therapeutic work into a busy family life.
Questions people ask about Julianne
What concerns does Julianne help with?
She supports people managing parenting challenges, trauma and abuse, grief, anxiety, stress, ADHD concerns, and life transitions. Additional focus areas include attachment issues, blended family dynamics, and caregiver stress.
What is her therapy style like?
Her style is easy-going and strength-focused. Sessions typically include practical steps, skill building, and collaborative problem solving.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has six years of experience working in clinical settings and holds a clinical master’s in social work. That background includes work in infant mental health.
Where is she based and what credentials does she hold?
She practices from Michigan and holds the LMSW credential, listed as MI LMSW.
Can I work with her if I live outside the United States?
Sessions are offered to international clients and are conducted in English.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and communication preferences.
How is payment handled and what does it cost?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button and completing a short matching questionnaire. After that you can schedule sessions based on therapist availability.
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