- Years in practice
- 16
- Credentials
- LPC
- Licensed in
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Parenting issues
- Focus
- Self esteem
About Julie
Julie Smith is a Licensed Professional Counselor with more than 16 years helping people navigate hard times. She has worked in inpatient hospitals and outpatient community agencies and now runs a independent practice focused on respectful, person-centered care. Her work covers many concerns, including anxiety, depression, trauma, stress, and parenting challenges.
She also addresses self-esteem, coping with life changes, and offers coaching-style support when people want practical steps forward. Julie uses an interactive, warm style in sessions.
Background and approach
She listens first, then helps clients set clear goals and build everyday skills. Sessions often include mindfulness and acceptance-based tools alongside cognitive approaches to manage thoughts and behavior. Her background includes work with trauma and experience across clinical settings, so she is familiar with both crisis-focused care and longer-term therapy.
That experience informs her focus on resilience and usable strategies that people can try between sessions. Julie aims to tailor each plan to a person’s needs and goals. She emphasizes collaboration, so clients help choose which tools to use and when to try them.
The overall aim is steady progress toward better coping and more satisfying day-to-day functioning.
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.
Approaches that guide online conversations
Julie incorporates cognitive approaches that help people notice and change unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors. These techniques often break big problems into small, practical steps and are useful for anxiety, mood issues, and problem-solving.She also draws on mindfulness and acceptance-based practices to help people tolerate difficult feelings and stay connected to their values. These skills can reduce reactivity, improve focus, and support better coping with stress and chronic health challenges.
Choosing the right methods is a shared process. Julie works with each person to decide which approaches match their needs, goals, and comfort level. That collaboration helps make a clear plan and adjust strategies as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make work on problems more flexible. Video allows face-to-face interaction for deeper conversation, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat and text are useful for brief check-ins or coaching-style support. These options let people fit therapy into busy lives and try different formats to see what helps most.
Questions people ask about Julie
What concerns does Julie commonly help with?
She works with issues such as stress, anxiety, parenting challenges, self-esteem, coping with life changes, and coaching. Additional focus areas include chronic pain and illness, communication and family problems, and mood concerns.
What is her therapy style like?
Julie uses a warm, collaborative, and interactive approach. She listens first, then helps clients set goals and practice skills between sessions.
How much experience does she have?
She has 16 years of experience working in inpatient hospitalization, outpatient community agencies, and independent practice settings.
What credentials and location are listed for Julie?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Pennsylvania.
In what language are sessions offered?
Sessions are offered in English.
Which session formats are available?
Julie provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and preferences.
How does payment and cost work?
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?
Use the Start Therapy button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
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