Julie Thomas
Compassionate counselor focused on practical family support
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed in
- Oklahoma, Arizona
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Julie
Julie Thomas is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 25 years of experience. She focuses on helping people through stress, anxiety, depression, grief, parenting strain, and related concerns. Her work often centers on practical skills and straightforward support so parents can manage day-to-day challenges.
Julie trained at the University of Central Oklahoma and has worked in outpatient counseling, therapeutic foster care, school-based counseling, and adoption services. Those roles gave her experience with adoption and foster care issues, attachment concerns, blended family challenges, and parenting skills.
Background and approach
She uses that background to help people sort through practical family and parenting questions. In sessions Julie uses a strengths-based, team-oriented approach. She treats the person as the expert on their life and builds on existing abilities.
Common tools she draws on include Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, mindfulness techniques, and solution-focused strategies that aim for clear, manageable steps. Julie also offers hypnotherapy when it fits a person's goals and comfort level. She works with concerns such as trauma and abuse, sleep problems, anger, low self-esteem, ADHD, and coping with life changes.
Her style is direct, supportive, and aimed at helping people make usable changes. Julie practices in Oklahoma and carries the LPC credential. Sessions are offered in English and include options like video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
She emphasizes collaboration and practical progress that fits each person’s life.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Julie commonly blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Mindfulness Therapy in sessions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at how thoughts and behaviors affect feelings and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce stress and improve focus, which can help with anxiety, sleep, and emotional regulation.She also uses a Client-Centered approach that keeps the person’s priorities front and center. That means the therapist listens closely, respects the client’s perspective, and helps set goals together. Finding the right mix of techniques is a collaborative process, and she will adjust methods to match a person’s goals and preferences.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let conversations feel like in-person meetings while fitting into busy schedules. Phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging provide shorter or more immediate options for check-ins and skill practice. These formats make it easier to work on parenting skills, coping strategies, and mindfulness exercises without extra travel, so therapy can fit into everyday life.
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
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma, Arizona
- Languages
- English
Next step
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