Julie Tallard Johnson

Julie Tallard Johnson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who helps people facing grief, trauma, anxiety, and major life changes. She draws on decades of experience to listen, reflect, and offer straightforward tools that can be used right away. Her approach is warm and practical, aimed at helping clients feel more steady and clear about next steps.

Her work emphasizes the relationship between client and therapist as the foundation for change. She mixes conversational, narrative, and body-focused methods so that feelings and physical experience are both noticed and understood. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy ideas help with identifying patterns and trying new behaviors.

Julie frames clients as the leaders of their work and describes her role as a guide who offers options. Sessions often include gentle inquiry, breathing and awareness practices, and strategies to manage distress or improve daily routines. She also brings coaching-style suggestions when people want action-oriented steps.

She has worked in the field for over three decades and holds a Master’s degree in Social Work. Julie has written books about healing from trauma and practical well-being tools, and she continues to learn through trainings and client work. Her experience includes supporting people through caregiving stress, chronic illness, addiction, and end-of-life concerns.

People who choose her tend to want clear, compassionate conversation and simple skills they can use between sessions. If you want a therapist who listens closely and helps map doable next steps, Julie offers that steady, relational style.

Therapeutic approaches and how they work online

Julie combines Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Client-Centered work to help people clarify values, notice unhelpful thoughts, and take steps that matter. ACT focuses on learning to accept strong feelings while committing to small actions that fit your values, which can be helpful for grief, anxiety, and life changes. Client-Centered therapy emphasizes a genuine, nonjudgmental relationship where the person leads the conversation and the therapist reflects and supports their own discovery.

She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques to identify thinking and behavior patterns and try practical experiments to shift them. CBT ideas are useful for anxiety, depression, sleep troubles, and many daily coping problems. Julie blends these approaches in a collaborative way so the client and therapist decide together which methods make sense.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Julie will help you figure out what fits your needs, goals, and preferences through early conversations and trialing different steps. This collaborative selection helps keep sessions focused and relevant to your life.

The therapist's biography mentions both in-person and online practice in the past but does not list specific current formats here, so please confirm the exact session options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time, allow for shorter check-ins when needed, and be easier to join during a break or from another location. Licensed professionals can adapt ACT, client-centered listening, and CBT exercises to work well in an online setting.