- Warm collaborative style
- Practical skill building
- Trauma-informed care
About Julie
Julie Smith is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 16 years of clinical experience. She has worked in inpatient hospitals, outpatient community agencies, and now runs a private practice focused on client-centered, compassionate care. Julie often supports people dealing with stress, anxiety, parenting concerns, and major life changes.
Her background includes long-term work with trauma, mood concerns, and emotional overwhelm. She also helps people managing chronic pain, illness, disability, and financial stress that affects daily life. Her practice emphasizes practical skills for coping, improving communication, and strengthening self-regard.
Julie’s approach is warm, interactive, and collaborative. She draws from cognitive-behavioral ideas and acceptance-based strategies, along with humanistic perspectives, to tailor treatment to each person. Sessions focus on clear steps people can try between meetings.
She aims to treat clients with respect and sensitivity while reducing stigma around seeking help. The work often mixes skill-building, problem-solving, and practices to manage strong emotions and panic symptoms. Julie also addresses seasonal mood shifts and ongoing stressors that wear people down over time.
Parents who want practical coaching around parenting challenges and daily routines may find her style helpful. She balances short-term coaching with support for deeper change, depending on what each person needs and hopes to accomplish.
How her approaches can work online
Julie often uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical skill building and emotional regulation. Cognitive-behavioral methods look at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and teach tools to change unhelpful patterns; these techniques are useful for anxiety, panic, and mood concerns.She also uses acceptance-based strategies that help people make room for difficult emotions while committing to meaningful actions. These approaches can reduce avoidance and support coping with chronic pain, life transitions, and ongoing stressors.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. She will collaborate with each person to choose techniques that fit their goals and daily life, adjusting the plan as progress and needs evolve.
If you are considering online therapy, confirm the session formats available before booking since formats are not specified here. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule, shorten check-ins when needed, and allow people to use approaches like skill coaching and mindfulness exercises between meetings. Licensed professionals can adapt these methods to remote sessions and help clients practice tools that carry over into everyday routines.
Areas of expertise
Primary focus
Additional focus areas
Experience
16+ years
Listed in
Pennsylvania
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What issues does she help with?
She supports people dealing with stress, anxiety, parenting concerns, self-esteem struggles, and life transitions. Additional focus areas include chronic pain and illness, communication and family problems, mood and panic concerns, post-traumatic stress, seasonal mood shifts, self-harm, and self-love.
What is her therapeutic style?
Her style is warm, collaborative, and interactive. She works with each person to build practical coping skills and plans they can use between sessions.
How much experience does she have?
She has 16 years of experience working in inpatient hospitals, outpatient community agencies, and private practice settings.
What are her credentials and location?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, practicing in Pennsylvania.
Which languages does she use for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can international clients work with her?
She is not currently accepting international clients.
How are costs and billing handled?
Costs vary with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working together?
To start, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to the therapist's availability.