About Julie
Julie Tirella is a licensed clinical social worker in Florida with 18 years of practice experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, phobias, and addictions while supporting relationship and self-esteem concerns. She creates a calm, accepting space where clients can talk about feelings and worries without judgment.
Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person’s readiness. Julie encourages small, practical steps toward clearer thinking and healthier routines.
Background and approach
Her approach blends client-centered care with cognitive behavioral techniques. She uses motivational interviewing to explore change and psychodynamic ideas to look at patterns that repeat over time. Solution-focused work helps set achievable goals and track progress.
Julie has worked with people facing grief, trauma, and intimacy-related struggles, and she supports those coping with major life transitions. She also addresses issues such as ADHD symptoms, mood disorders, and problems tied to family roles or blended households. Her style is direct but warm.
She helps people identify unhelpful thoughts, practice new behaviors, and strengthen communication skills. The work is practical and grounded in day-to-day life. Therapy is offered through a mix of video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging.
Sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time and are scheduled based on therapist availability.
How Julie blends approaches for online care
Julie uses client-centered therapy to make sessions about the person in front of her. That means conversations focus on the client’s concerns, pace, and goals so people feel heard and understood. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, is used to identify unhelpful thoughts and try small behavior changes that reduce anxiety and improve mood.Finding the right mix of techniques is part of the work. Julie will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and comfort. She checks in often and adjusts strategies when something isn’t helping.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone, live chat, or text messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video allows face-to-face conversation for deeper emotional work, while phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or text messaging can serve as shorter check-ins or a convenient way to fit therapy into a busy day. These options help people keep continuity of care and fit therapy into real-life schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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