- Years in practice
- 4
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Licensed in
- Utah
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Grief
- Focus
- Depression
About Julie
Julie Ann Hexum is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people navigate common parenting pressures and personal challenges. She brings four years of clinical experience and a straightforward, compassionate approach to each session. Her work centers on practical coping skills for stress, anxiety, and depression.
She also supports people dealing with grief, compassion fatigue, addictions, and changes at work or home. Conversations focus on what is happening now and steps clients can try between sessions.
Background and approach
Julie uses evidence-based techniques to shape a plan that fits each person's life. That often means teaching tools for sleep, managing anger, or addressing difficult relationship patterns. She aims for short, clear takeaways so parents can try strategies in real time.
She also addresses concerns such as ADHD, bipolar mood issues, body image, eating and intimacy-related worries. Additional focus areas include abandonment, adoption and foster care, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and dissociation. Julie explains options in plain language and helps clients choose manageable next steps.
Sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. People in Utah will find a therapist who emphasizes collaboration, steady support, and practical skills for everyday parenting challenges.
What Julie works with
Everything Julie lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Julie helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coaching
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Online approaches that fit busy parenting lives
Julie often uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that teach clear skills and small behavioral changes. One common approach focuses on building practical coping skills for anxiety and stress by teaching breath work, activity planning, and stepwise exposure to challenging situations. This method helps reduce overwhelming reactions and supports steady day-to-day functioning.Another frequent approach emphasizes mood and routine management for depression and sleep problems. It involves setting simple daily routines, improving sleep habits, and breaking goals into manageable steps to rebuild energy and confidence. These techniques are useful for people juggling parenting responsibilities and work demands.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Julie will talk with the client about goals, try techniques, and adjust plans based on what works. She encourages feedback and focuses on solutions that fit a person's schedule and priorities.
Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging, which makes it easier to fit therapy into a busy week. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation, phone calls use less bandwidth for quick check-ins, live chat suits short focused exchanges, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options offer flexibility and practical ways to keep progress moving forward.
Questions people ask about Julie
What kinds of concerns can Julie help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, grief, depression, parenting concerns, sleep and eating issues, relationship and intimacy challenges, addictions, and other life changes.
What is her general approach to therapy?
She uses a compassionate, collaborative style and evidence-based techniques to build clear, practical strategies clients can use between sessions.
How much clinical experience does she have?
Julie has four years of experience as a licensed clinical social worker providing therapeutic support for a range of concerns.
Where is Julie licensed and practicing?
She holds an LCSW license in Utah and practices with clients located in that state.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and is provided through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
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