Julie Olson
Calm, practical support for everyday parenting struggles
- Credentials
- LMSW
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed in
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Julie
Julie Olson is a licensed master social worker (LMSW) practicing in Michigan. She draws on eight years of experience to help people who feel overwhelmed, stuck, or unsure of themselves. Parents and caregivers reading this will find straightforward, practical support for everyday struggles.
Julie speaks plainly and aims to make each session feel calm and approachable. She focuses on common problems like stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, grief, and trauma.
Background and approach
She also addresses issues such as addiction, sleep and eating difficulties, anger, and relationship or intimacy-related problems. Additional areas she attends to include aging and caregiver stress, chronic illness, attachment and family of origin tensions, and challenges like jealousy or infidelity. Julie uses a mix of methods to meet each person where they are.
Sessions often center on listening first, then developing small, doable steps to reduce distress. She blends cognitive behavioral strategies with mindfulness and solution-focused work, and uses motivational interviewing when someone needs help finding their own reasons to change. Her approach is nonjudgmental and collaborative.
Julie aims to make space for honest conversation and to help clients identify realistic goals. Many people find her calm manner easy to talk with, which helps them try new ways of handling stress and relationships. To begin, someone would use the platform tools to match and schedule a session.
Pricing varies by location and follows a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
Therapeutic tools and online support for everyday life
Julie combines client-centered work with cognitive behavioral therapy to keep sessions practical and focused. Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening and creating a supportive space so people can share freely and set their own goals. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps identify unhelpful thoughts and teaches straightforward skills to change patterns that drive anxiety or low mood.She also uses mindfulness techniques to teach simple ways to reduce stress in the moment and solution-focused methods to build small, achievable steps toward a clearer next move. Together these approaches allow sessions to shift between understanding what matters and practicing concrete coping strategies. Julie will collaborate with each person to choose which methods fit best based on goals, needs, and personal preferences.
Online therapy makes it possible to work on these approaches from home using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. That flexibility helps parents and busy adults fit conversations and short skill practices into their routine. The range of formats also makes it easier to keep momentum between sessions and to use techniques when they are most needed.
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.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
Next step
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