About Julia
Julia (Jurate) Mcgarry is a licensed mental health counselor in New York with seven years of experience. She focuses on practical help for everyday problems like anxiety, depression, stress, and relationship concerns. Julia also supports people coping with addictions, grief, and changes that feel overwhelming.
Julia adapts her approach to each person. She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques, acceptance strategies, motivational interviewing, attachment-based ideas, and client-centered work. Sessions are conversational and aimed at clear steps that people can try between meetings.
Background and approach
Her style is warm and straightforward. She encourages people to name what matters to them and to set small goals that build confidence. Conversations focus on skills, values, and decisions that lead to manageable change.
Julia has particular experience with issues around self-esteem, anger, intimacy, sleep problems, parenting stress, and career transitions. She also addresses complex areas such as trauma, dissociation, codependency, and substance-related concerns when those show up in a person's life. People who reach out can expect a collaborative process.
Julia listens first, then works with each person to pick methods that fit their situation and energy. She aims to make therapy practical, readable, and respectful of each person's pace.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Julia often draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. CBT is practical and problem-focused, which can help with anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and anger.She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify their values and take action toward them even when difficult thoughts or feelings appear. ACT is useful for stress, anxiety, and coping with life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy is another influence, helping people understand relationship patterns and how early connections affect current interactions.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will listen to your goals and try different methods to see what fits. You and the therapist will check in and adjust the plan as needed so work feels relevant and doable.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make scheduling easier. Video lets you work in a conversational format similar to in-person therapy. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or you want not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief check-ins, shorter notes between sessions, or when a written format feels easier to express yourself.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Grief
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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