Julie Butler
Compassionate practical support for parents and adults
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed in
- Iowa
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Julie
Julie Butler is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) practicing in Iowa. She has 10 years of professional experience and focuses on concerns parents often face, like stress, anxiety, parenting struggles, relationship issues, grief, addiction, and trauma. Julie uses straightforward, practical conversations to help people understand what’s happening and decide what to try next.
She prefers a collaborative style that centers the person in front of her. Sessions are grounded in clear techniques from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Solution-Focused Therapy, with attention to how past experiences shape current patterns.
Background and approach
Julie also draws on the Gottman Method for relationship work and motivational strategies when people are making difficult changes. In sessions she helps clients notice unhelpful thoughts, test small changes, and build skills they can use at home. The work often includes setting concrete goals, practicing new communication habits, and planning steps to manage cravings, mood changes, or upsetting memories.
Julie explains tools plainly and checks in about what feels useful. Her training and experience include a range of settings in behavioral health, and she tailors methods to each person’s situation. She works in English and accepts international clients for online formats.
Julie asks new clients to complete a short matching questionnaire to begin and then schedule based on mutual availability. Julie holds the Iowa LMHC license IA LMHC 081447 and draws on practical therapy approaches to help people move toward clearer choices and steadier daily life.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Julie commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, and the Gottman Method. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps clients spot unhelpful thoughts and try small experiments to change feelings and behaviors; it is useful for anxiety, depression, and mood regulation. Solution-Focused Therapy concentrates on strengths and immediate steps, helping people set short-term goals and build momentum for change. The Gottman Method offers practical communication and problem-solving skills for relationship challenges, with concrete exercises partners can practice between sessions.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Julie treats choosing methods as a collaborative process that depends on a person’s needs, goals, and preferences. She reviews what has and hasn’t worked before and adjusts techniques so they fit the client’s day-to-day life.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These formats make it easier to fit sessions around parenting, work, and busy schedules. They also allow clients to practice skills at home and check in more flexibly between live meetings, which can help turn small changes into lasting habits.
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.
Gottman Method
A research-based framework for couples, focused on how partners argue, repair, and stay connected. Practical and structured, with exercises to try between sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Coping with life changes
Also works with
- 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
Next step
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