Julie Borden
Compassionate guidance for clearer choices
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed in
- California
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Julie
Julie Borden is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with more than 23 years of counseling experience. She holds a master's degree in Social Welfare and has spent her career helping people handle stress, grief, depression, and parenting challenges. Julie knows that reaching out for therapy is a big step and aims to make that first contact straightforward and respectful.
She describes therapy as a way to gain new perspective - like looking through a clearer window at your life.
Background and approach
Julie listens for patterns in relationships, helps clients question assumptions, and supports small, doable changes that add up over time. She focuses on practical steps as well as insight, believing that tiny shifts can lead to larger improvements. Julie encourages living with greater intention and choosing actions that match personal values.
She guides people toward clearer options and helps them recognize possibilities they may not have noticed before. Her approach combines thoughtful conversation with real-world experiments to build confidence. In session she works at a pace that fits each person, celebrating small successes and using them as a springboard for further change.
Her work covers a broad range of concerns including anxiety, addiction, relationship and intimacy issues, trauma and abuse, ADHD, bipolar disorder, career questions, and compassion fatigue. Based in California, Julie offers sessions in English and provides online formats such as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
She invites prospective clients to share their story and to work together toward clearer decision making and greater calm.
How therapeutic methods meet online flexibility
Julie uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that combine insight and action. One approach focuses on identifying relationship and life patterns so clients can see what's been keeping them stuck; this helps with anxiety, grief, relationship strain, and repetitive behaviors. Another common element is behavioral experimentation - setting small, concrete steps to try different responses and build confidence through real-world practice, which supports change in areas like parenting, coping with life changes, and managing mood challenges.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Julie works together with each person to decide which methods match their goals, needs, and comfort level, and she adjusts the plan as progress unfolds. The work blends reflective conversation with practical exercises so clients can test new ways of living between sessions.
Online therapy gives practical benefits for this style of work. Video calls and phone sessions allow face-to-face conversation when that depth is helpful. Live chat and text messaging provide options for brief check-ins, coaching-style prompts, and support between meetings. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to practice new skills in the moments they matter.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Julie
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