About Julie
Julie Tallard Johnson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with a long history helping people facing anxiety, stress, trauma, grief, and depression. She offers calm, direct support for problems like addiction, sleep trouble, relationship and intimacy concerns, and challenges tied to caregiving or chronic illness. Her style centers on building a real connection.
She believes a good relationship between therapist and client matters most. Sessions focus on the client's story, body experiences, and practical steps to change what feels stuck.
Background and approach
Julie blends narrative work with body-based awareness and practical cognitive tools. She listens for the stories people tell themselves, explores how those stories shape feeling and action, and invites simple practices that bring more choice. She also integrates breath and somatic awareness to help with trauma response and bodily stress.
With 33 years as a therapist and a Master of Social Work, Julie draws on long experience in both in-person and online work. She describes the client as the leader of each session while she offers options, strategies, and guidance to reach their goals.
She has written books about recovery from trauma and practical well-being tools, and she continues to learn through trainings and clinical work. People who want straightforward, relational guidance and a mix of talk and body-based practices may find her approach helpful.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice hard thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It focuses on clarifying values and taking small, meaningful steps toward the life someone wants. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at patterns of thinking and behavior and teaches simple practices to shift those patterns, which can ease anxiety and improve mood. Client-Centered Therapy puts the relationship first and follows the client's lead, offering reflective listening and gentle guidance to help people find their own answers.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they decide whether to emphasize values-based action, skill-building exercises, or relational and body-focused practices so the plan fits the person's needs.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, and messaging is useful for quick check-ins or brief coaching between sessions. These options make scheduling easier and let people use the format that fits their day and comfort level.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 33 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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