Julie Affronti , LMFT

Julie Affronti is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with two decades of experience in California. She focuses on helping people handle stress and anxiety, build self-esteem, and manage parenting challenges. Julie works with people facing life transitions and those dealing with compassion fatigue. She speaks English and uses a straightforward, respectful approach that aims to make starting therapy easier for worried clients.

Julie frames conversations to match each person’s needs rather than following a one-size-fits-all formula. She listens for practical patterns that cause worry or low motivation and helps people try small behavior changes that can make life feel more manageable. Sessions are collaborative and goal-focused, with steps agreed on together.

Her experience includes supporting people with mood challenges, seasonal affective disorder, and feelings of isolation or loneliness. Julie also addresses communication struggles and caregiver stress, and she has familiarity with autism and Asperger Syndrome concerns. She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and test new ways of reacting.

Julie keeps explanations plain and sessions practical. She aims to help clients leave with concrete ideas to try between meetings. Starting therapy can feel hard, and Julie works to make that first step less overwhelming.

CBT approaches and online care that fit your life

Julie uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) as a primary approach, which focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing new, more helpful ways of responding. CBT is often useful for anxiety, stress, low mood, and problems that come from repetitive negative thinking.

The therapist will work with each person to choose the best mix of techniques for their situation. That decision is collaborative - goals, pace, and preferred methods are discussed and adjusted as you go. Finding the right approach is part of the process and may change over time.

Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit busy schedules. Video calls let people maintain face-to-face contact, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for brief check-ins, and messaging can work for ongoing support between meetings. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit around work, family, and daily life.