About Julia
Julia Spaude, LICSW, helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, or life changes. She listens for what matters most and works with each person to build practical steps forward. Many clients come for help with relationships, motivation, self-esteem, grief, or challenges connected to ADHD and daily focus.
Julia uses short, clear tools a person can apply between sessions. She draws on approaches like cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness to change unhelpful patterns.
Background and approach
Motivational interviewing helps people find reasons they want to make changes and keep going. She believes the client is the expert on their life, and she supports that expertise with straightforward guidance. Sessions focus on small, doable goals rather than overwhelming plans.
The therapist offers a calm, accepting presence while also encouraging action when someone is ready. Over seven years as a licensed clinical social worker in Washington, Julia has worked with people facing trauma, relationship strain, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and challenges with sleep and anger. She also addresses concerns such as abandonment, attachment wounds, body image, and isolation.
In sessions she helps clients build skills for emotion regulation, communication, and setting boundaries. She combines acceptance-based ideas with practical problem solving so people can try changes and adjust as they go. The aim is steady improvement in daily life, one small step at a time.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and then choose actions that support valued goals. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and motivation struggles. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms and improve daily routines. It often helps with anxiety, sleep issues, and mood challenges.Finding the right mix of methods is part of the process. The therapist works collaboratively to match techniques to a client's needs, goals, and comfort level. Together they try approaches, review what helps, and adjust plans so the work fits the person's life.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video is good for deeper conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or text messaging can work for brief check-ins or ongoing coaching-style support. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, maintain progress between appointments, and choose the format that feels most practical.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Washington
- Languages
- English
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