About Julie
Julie Butler is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) based in Iowa. She focuses on common struggles like anxiety, depression, ADHD, stress, and relationship concerns. Her style is straightforward and compassionate, with an emphasis on practical steps people can use right away.
With ten years of clinical experience, she combines a few different methods to match what each person needs. Sessions usually look like a conversation about current problems, then trying out small changes and new coping skills.
Background and approach
She emphasizes clear goals and measurable progress so people know when things are shifting. Julie often uses client-centered listening to make sure someone feels heard and understood. She pairs that with cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking and adjust behaviors that get in the way.
Solution-focused tools help set short-term goals and produce quick practical wins. Her work covers a broad range of life concerns, including grief, trauma and abuse, addictions, parenting stress, career struggles, and issues around identity such as LGBT-related concerns. She also supports people facing attachment or abandonment wounds, blended family challenges, and complex co-occurring issues.
Sessions are offered in English and can take place through video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Julie aims to help people develop skills they can use between sessions, so changes last beyond the appointment time.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Julie blends client-centered listening with cognitive behavioral techniques to address day-to-day problems. Client-Centered Therapy means the conversation starts with your priorities and feelings, and the therapist reflects and clarifies to help you feel understood. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing practical behavior changes to reduce symptoms like worry, low mood, or attention difficulties.She also uses solution-focused methods to set short-term goals and generate quick, manageable steps. That approach is useful when someone wants specific changes fast, such as improving routines, handling stressors, or making small shifts in communication. Together these approaches give both a roomy space to talk and concrete tools to practice between sessions.
Finding the right blend is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. That means trying an approach, checking how it feels, and adjusting based on what produces progress.
Online formats offered include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets you use visual cues and longer conversation. Phone sessions can fit a break at work or require less bandwidth. Live chat or text messaging can be helpful for brief check-ins, reminders, or ongoing support between meetings. These options make scheduling more flexible and can help therapy fit into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Coping with life changes
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Iowa
- Languages
- English
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