About Julie
Dr. Julie Griffin is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) practicing from Indiana with 18 years of experience. She began her career after studies at the University of Louisville and a doctorate from Spalding University, and she brings a long history of clinical work to each session.
Her background includes work in schools, hospitals, community mental health settings, group homes, prisons, and independent practice. That variety shaped how she approaches problems like anxiety, depression, trauma, and addiction.
Background and approach
She also has hands-on experience with developmental differences and applied behavior approaches from in-home work with autistic children and teens. Dr. Griffin aims to make sessions straightforward and nonjudgmental.
She focuses on clients' strengths and uses practical techniques drawn from different therapies. Sessions tend to be collaborative and goal-focused, with small steps parents and individuals can try between meetings. She often helps people with stress, parenting struggles, relationship concerns, grief, sleep and eating problems, attention difficulties, and life transitions.
She also works with issues like attachment concerns, body image, caregiver stress, and intimacy-related problems. Outside clinical work she enjoys arts and crafts, games, and Legos, and she has used therapy animals as part of her practice. Her style is warm and curious, and she emphasizes listening first, then building a simple plan together.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people clarify their values and take meaningful action even when uncomfortable thoughts or feelings are present. It can be helpful for anxiety, phobias, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behavior and uses practical exercises to change patterns that maintain symptoms; it is commonly used for anxiety, depression, and sleep or eating issues. Attachment-Based Therapy explores relational patterns and how early relationships affect current connections, which can help with intimacy and attachment concerns.Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to identify goals, try techniques, and adjust methods based on what helps most. Clients can expect to discuss preferences and daily life to shape a plan that fits their needs.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video is good for deeper conversation and nonverbal cues, phone can be easier on low bandwidth days or when a quick check-in is needed, and chat or messaging can suit brief updates or people who prefer written communication. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or parenting schedules and help maintain continuity when life is busy.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- 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
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