Julie Knight
Calm, experienced help for family and life changes
- Credentials
- LPCC, LPC
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed in
- Oklahoma, California
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Julie
Julie Knight is a licensed therapist in California who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, parenting challenges, and relationship or family concerns. She brings a calm, practical style and focuses on helping clients make changes that feel doable. Julie uses clear language and steady support so parents can focus on what matters most for their families.
She holds LPCC and LPC credentials and has thirty years of experience in the mental health field.
Background and approach
That experience includes work on inpatient psychiatric units and in crisis response programs, and many years providing individual and family therapy. Julie draws on that background to respond calmly when life feels overwhelming. Her approach is person-centered, strengths-based, and goal oriented.
Sessions emphasize what a person already does well and build simple, step-by-step plans to improve coping and relationships. She also uses therapy methods such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Attachment-Based Therapy, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy when they fit the situation. Julie has a long-standing commitment to LGBTQ clients and their families.
She helps people through coming out, improves family communication, and supports building healthy self-esteem in difficult social settings. She also offers understanding and practical coaching for people who identify as highly sensitive or who are neurodivergent. In sessions she helps clients learn more about their personality and patterns.
That often includes using Jungian-based ideas and Myers-Briggs style tools to increase self-understanding. The goal is clearer communication, better choices, and skills that last beyond an immediate crisis.
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose values-based actions. It can be useful for stress, anxiety, and coping with life changes by shifting focus toward what matters most. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at thinking patterns and behaviors and teaches practical skills to reduce symptoms like anxiety and low mood. It is often used for depression, anxiety, and mood regulation. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current connections and communication, which can help with relationship and family difficulties.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Julie will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, needs, and style. She mixes person-centered support with specific techniques so therapy matches how clients want to work and what they want to change.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Sessions can happen by video call or phone, and Julie also uses live chat or text-based messaging when that format suits the client. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy family schedules and to keep momentum between sessions.
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.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma, California
- Languages
- English
Next step
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- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point