About Julie
Julie Batson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 20 years of experience. She practices in Missouri and offers therapy that focuses on practical change and steady support for people feeling overwhelmed by life’s demands. She helps with stress and anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, and low self-esteem.
She also supports people facing grief, career strain, relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting stress, and challenges related to ADHD and bipolar mood patterns.
Background and approach
Her style is respectful and straightforward. Conversations are tailored to each person’s needs, not a one-size-fits-all program. Julie aims to make sessions feel manageable even when problems seem large.
Julie uses a mix of approaches to fit what a person needs. She draws on Attachment-Based ideas to look at patterns rooted in relationships. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps break unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Mindfulness techniques are used to build calm and focus. Sessions can include goal setting, skill practice, and gentle reflection on past patterns. Julie emphasizes small, practical steps people can try between sessions.
She encourages questions and adjusts plans as progress happens.
How Julie’s Approaches Work Online
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape current reactions and closeness. Online sessions can help identify repeating patterns and build new ways of relating that feel safer and more satisfying. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on noticing and changing thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. It’s practical work that often includes exercises to try between sessions to reduce anxiety or lift mood.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work with each person to choose and adjust methods based on goals, needs, and preferences. That collaboration helps ensure sessions feel relevant and useful rather than one-size-fits-all.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people with busy days or limited travel options. Video calls let most conversations feel similar to in-person work. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or camera use is an issue. Live chat or text-based messaging provide shorter check-ins and a way to keep momentum between longer sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- 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
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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