Julie Barzal
Calm, practical support for parents and families
- Credentials
- LICSW, LISW
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed in
- Ohio, Massachusetts
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Julie
Julie Barzal is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) and a Licensed Independent Social Worker (LISW) who focuses on family and parenting concerns alongside a wide range of emotional and life challenges. She draws on seven years of professional work supporting adults and adolescents facing stress, anxiety, depression, anger, grief, addiction, and relationship or intimacy-related issues.
Julie aims to make first steps feel manageable and straightforward for parents who are worried or overwhelmed.
Background and approach
Her approach is practical and conversational. She uses techniques from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people notice unhelpful patterns and try small changes. She also uses client-centered methods to create a respectful space where a persons own goals guide the work.
Sessions are meant to be collaborative rather than prescriptive. Julie has experience with blended family concerns, parenting challenges, compassion fatigue, caregiving stress, and work with people navigating life changes such as divorce, chronic illness, or career shifts. She also addresses issues like body image, commitment and control concerns, and substance use.
Her background includes telehealth counseling, crisis work, and case management with adolescents and adults. She emphasizes listening, advocacy, and cultural humility in therapy. Julie uses a strengths-based stance and meets people where they are without judgment.
Her practical style includes active listening, problem solving, and helping clients build skills they can use between sessions. Julie holds MA LICSW LICSW126232 and OH LISW I.2203842-SUPV credentials and practices in Ohio. She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different family schedules.
Therapeutic approaches and online support for family concerns
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck on them. It encourages picking actions that match what matters most, which can help with parenting stress, anxiety, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to shift unhelpful patterns and manage mood or anxiety symptoms. Client-Centered Therapy creates a nonjudgmental space where the person's goals lead the work and the therapist follows the client's pace and priorities.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Julie will discuss options, listen to your goals, and suggest techniques that fit your family situation and preferences. That collaboration helps shape a plan you can try week to week rather than a fixed prescription.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into busy family lives. Video calls allow for face-to-face discussion when that is helpful. Phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging provide flexible ways to check in, practice new skills, or get support between longer sessions. These options aim to make therapy more accessible for parents juggling schedules and responsibilities.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Ohio, Massachusetts
- Languages
- English
Next step
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- Stop at any point