About Julie
Dr. Julie Griffin is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) practicing in Indiana with 18 years of clinical experience. She completed undergraduate and master’s study in clinical and counseling psychology at the University of Louisville and earned a Doctorate in Psychology from Spalding University.
Julie has worked in many settings over the years, including independent practice, schools, hospitals, prisons, group homes, and community mental health programs. She uses a strength-based style and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, grief, parenting challenges, trauma and abuse, and relationship and intimacy issues.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to be open and nonjudgmental so clients can speak honestly about what’s on their mind. Practical strategies and conversational work are blended to meet each person’s needs. Her background includes work with adults, children, and adolescents in multiple settings and involvement with substance use, anger management, and parenting support.
She has experience with autism, attachment issues, blended family concerns, body image, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and a range of personality and behavioral concerns. Julie draws on approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Attachment-Based work, Client-Centered therapy, and Emotionally-Focused Therapy to build a plan with each client.
She has also used therapeutic animals and creative activities like art and play when they fit the client’s goals. People who want a collaborative, practical approach that combines conversation with hands-on strategies may find her style helpful. She encourages people to take the first step and offers supportive guidance for the challenges they bring to sessions.
How her approaches shape online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice their thoughts and values and take small actions that matter to them. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and coping with life changes by teaching practical skills to move forward despite difficult feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at patterns of thinking and behavior and uses structured techniques to reduce symptoms like anxiety, depression, and sleep problems. It often includes goal-setting and behavioral experiments to try between sessions. Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to how early relationships affect current connections and emotional patterns, and it can help with relationship, intimacy, and attachment concerns.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Plans are adjusted over time so the methods match progress and changing needs.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into daily life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and text messaging support shorter check-ins, brief reflections, or ongoing written communication between sessions. These options make it practical to get consistent support from a licensed professional while balancing work, family, or other commitments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English