Julie Hatfield
Experienced LCSW supporting practical family needs
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed in
- North Dakota, Montana
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Julie
Julie Hatfield is a licensed clinical social worker with 12 years of experience. She is licensed in Montana and North Dakota and offers supportive care for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and parenting concerns. She speaks English and accepts international clients.
Julie aims to meet each person where they are and help them take the next steps in difficult times. Julie focuses on clear, practical help rather than jargon.
Background and approach
She listens for what matters most and helps clients set small, doable goals. Sessions often include talking through feelings, sorting priorities, and practicing ways to cope between meetings. Her background includes work across settings that address trauma, mood challenges such as bipolar disorder, and issues like grief, anger, and relationship strain.
She also supports people dealing with ADHD, compassion fatigue, and caregiver stress. Julie brings experience with adoption and foster care topics, blended family dynamics, and family-of-origin concerns. Julie emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassion in her approach.
She aims to create a space where clients feel heard and where change can be practical and realistic. She works collaboratively to tailor plans to each person's needs and preferences. For many people the first step feels hard.
Julie encourages small moves - a short conversation, a single action - that build momentum. Her goal is to help clients find clearer direction and better ways to handle daily demands and longer-term transitions.
Evidence-informed approaches for online family and parenting concerns
Julie uses established, evidence-based techniques that help people manage emotions and improve daily functioning. One common approach focuses on skills for coping with anxiety and stress - teaching breathing, grounding, and step-by-step problem solving so clients can reduce overwhelm and handle tasks more calmly. Another approach centers on mood regulation and routines to help with depression and bipolar mood swings - building predictable habits, activity planning, and ways to notice early warning signs.Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what feels doable. Together they’ll try methods that fit the client’s life and adjust plans when something isn’t helpful so progress stays realistic and client-driven.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how people connect. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction, phone sessions work when video isn’t possible, and live chat or text-based messaging suit quick check-ins or ongoing encouragement. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent during busy schedules, caregiving demands, or when travel and distance are barriers.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- North Dakota, Montana
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Julie
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- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point