Julie Vierling
Compassionate, practical care for life’s hard moments
- Credentials
- LMSW, LISW
- Experience
- 28 years
- Licensed in
- Ohio, Michigan
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Julie
Julie Vierling is a licensed social worker practicing in Ohio with 28 years of clinical experience. She holds LMSW (Licensed Master Social Worker) and LISW (Licensed Independent Social Worker) credentials and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and addictions. Julie often works with clients facing panic attacks, obsessive-compulsive patterns, bipolar and mood regulation concerns, and trauma-related symptoms.
Her style is straightforward and practical. Sessions emphasize clear skills and steps clients can use between meetings.
Background and approach
She blends structured therapy tools with mindfulness and values-based work so clients learn both immediate coping strategies and ways to steer life toward what matters to them. Julie uses cognitive-behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people accept hard feelings while taking action toward meaningful goals.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills and motivational interviewing are part of her toolkit when emotion regulation and change readiness are central concerns. People can expect a calm, nonjudgmental listener who focuses on actionable change. Julie supports those coping with substance and process addictions, relationship and intimacy-related problems, sleep and eating challenges, and parenting stress.
She also addresses specialty concerns such as postpartum depression, domestic violence impacts, and end-of-life care conversations. Sessions are offered in English and international clients are accepted. Julie offers a mix of session styles to fit different needs and schedules.
How therapy methods translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and then choose actions that reflect their values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and making life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing behaviors to reduce symptoms, and it is often used for anxiety, panic, mood concerns, and obsessive patterns.The right approach often emerges through conversation. Julie treats therapy as a collaborative process and will help clients test methods to see what fits their goals and comfort. That may mean trying CBT exercises one week and practicing acceptance or mindfulness skills the next, then adjusting based on what helps.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let people replicate face-to-face conversations, phone sessions work for those on the go, and live chat or text-based messaging can support quick check-ins or ongoing skill practice. These options make it easier to keep momentum between sessions and to fit therapy into a busy family life.
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.
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.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 28 years
- Licensed
- Ohio, Michigan
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Julie
- Takes a few minutes
- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point