Julie Chinni
Calm, practical counseling for everyday challenges
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed in
- Texas
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Julie
Julie Chinni is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas with nine years of clinical experience. She works with teens and adults on concerns such as substance use, depression, anxiety, ADHD, and trauma. Julie aims to create a calm, respectful space where people can talk honestly about what is hard right now.
She encourages clients to keep their independence while making changes that feel right for them. Her approach is warm and interactive.
Background and approach
Sessions emphasize building on a person’s strengths and practical steps for daily life. Julie values clear choices and helps clients understand options without judgment. She focuses on reducing stressful symptoms so people can function better at home, school, or work.
Julie uses a mix of methods tailored to each person. She draws from cognitive behavioral techniques to address unhelpful thoughts, acceptance and commitment ideas to clarify values, and client-centered work that follows the person’s pace. Those tools are applied to issues like relationships, grief, addiction, anger, and coping with life changes.
She also supports people dealing with attachment and abandonment concerns, blended family challenges, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and body image. In sessions Julie often blends short-term problem solving with deeper exploration when needed. The goal is practical progress and clearer direction for everyday life.
If someone is ready to begin, Julie asks them to describe what brought them in and what matters most to them. From there she helps set small, manageable steps and checks in on what’s working as therapy continues.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Julie often uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which helps identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors to reduce anxiety and depression. CBT gives clear tools people can try between sessions to manage symptoms and handle daily stressors.She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which focuses on clarifying values and taking small committed actions even when difficult thoughts or feelings are present. ACT can help with long-term issues like chronic worry, avoidance, or low motivation.
Finding the right mix of methods is part of the work. Julie collaborates with each person to choose approaches that fit their needs, goals, and comfort level. That means trying practical strategies first and adjusting when something isn’t helping.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation from home, phone sessions remove travel time, and live chat or text-based messaging can support quick check-ins or ongoing reflection between longer sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while juggling family, school, or work commitments.
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
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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