- Anger management
- Trauma recovery
- CBT and narrative
About Julie
Julie Allen is an LPC - Licensed Professional Counselor in Georgia with 20 years of clinical experience. She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, trauma and recovery, mood concerns, addiction, and anger. She also supports people navigating parenting, grief, career shifts, and LGBTQ issues.
Julie emphasizes that clients know their own stories and strengths. She listens to what people bring and helps them use those strengths to address the problems that keep showing up. Her style is straightforward and practical, focused on real-life coping and clearer choices.
In sessions she draws on several approaches to fit each person’s situation. That can mean examining thoughts and behavior patterns, looking at how life stories shape current problems, or focusing on short-term steps that change daily routines. She mixes techniques to match what a person needs in the moment.
Her background includes work with survivors of sexual assault and people managing serious mental illness and recovery. She has long experience helping people process loss, break cycles of family conflict, and manage strong emotions like anger and resentment. She is comfortable talking with people of faith and with those who do not follow any religion.
Julie has worked with LGBTQ individuals through her career and also addresses issues such as abandonment, adoption and foster care, fertility struggles, and coping after natural or human-caused disasters. She aims to help people take practical steps toward steadier days.
How Julie applies approaches online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building understanding. It helps people feel heard and notice their own strengths so they can make clearer choices about anger, relationships, or life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts and behaviors keep problems going. It uses simple, concrete strategies to change unhelpful thinking and to practice different reactions in daily life. Narrative Therapy helps people rewrite the stories they tell about themselves. It can reduce shame and create space for different responses to triggers like resentment or recurring conflict.Choosing the best approach is a collaborative process. Julie will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or has not helped before. Together they figure out which methods to try and make small adjustments along the way based on what works in practice.
Confirm the specific session formats before booking, since the profile does not list them. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, cut down travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when that is useful. It also allows continuing work during life transitions and after a move. Licensed professionals typically adapt activities and homework so they work in a remote setting and to the practical limits of a client’s day.
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Experience
20+ years
Listed in
Georgia
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of problems does she help with?
She helps with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, relationship problems, mood concerns such as bipolar and depression, addictions, grief, parenting strain, and anger.
What is her therapy style like?
She uses a practical, person-centered approach that draws on Client-Centered Therapy, CBT, Narrative, Psychodynamic, and Solution-Focused ideas depending on what helps most.
How much experience does she have?
She has 20 years of professional work experience in clinical settings and community care.
What are her credentials and where does she practice?
She is an LPC - Licensed Professional Counselor, credentialed in Georgia, USA and practices from that state.
Does she work with people in other countries?
Sessions are offered to international clients as well as people in the United States. Sessions are conducted in English.
What session formats are available?
Please confirm the current session formats before booking, as the profile does not list specific formats.
How much do sessions cost?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.