About Julie
Julie Gallivan is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Michigan who focuses on practical support for people facing relationship and life stress. She draws on several therapy styles to help clients manage anxiety, depression, ADHD-related struggles, and challenges at home and work. Julie keeps sessions straightforward and goal-focused.
She helps people talk through relationship tensions, parenting strain, grief, and burnout. Her work also addresses issues like impulsivity, self-esteem, addiction concerns, and coping with major life changes.
Background and approach
Her style emphasizes listening and collaboration. She uses acceptance-based methods alongside cognitive strategies and mindfulness to help clients notice patterns and try different responses. Narrative work helps clients reframe difficult stories about themselves and their relationships.
Julie brings six years of clinical experience to her practice and holds a Michigan LPC credential. She offers faith-integrated care when requested, and will include spiritual practices such as prayer if a client asks for that approach. Sessions aim to identify small, workable changes clients can practice between meetings.
Julie supports people facing long-term stressors like caregiving or chronic illness as well as more acute problems such as recent loss or trauma. She welcomes conversations about how therapy can fit into daily life and routines.
How Julie’s approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages people to notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values. This approach can help with anxiety, depression, and the restlessness that sometimes accompanies ADHD. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like worry, low mood, and impulsivity. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention practices that reduce reactivity and increase emotional awareness, which can be useful for stress, anger, and concentration challenges.Finding the right mix of methods is part of the work. Julie approaches this collaboratively, discussing goals and preferences with each person and adapting techniques based on what feels most useful. Clients are invited to try different tools and give feedback so sessions stay practical and relevant.
Online sessions offer real flexibility. Video calls support face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions are an option when bandwidth is an issue or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let clients share thoughts between sessions and fit support around busy days. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while juggling work, caregiving, or other responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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