Julie Allen , LPC

Julie Allen is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Georgia with 20 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, mood disorders, trauma, and life changes. Julie aims to create a calm space where people can tell their story and find practical ways forward.

Julie listens first and follows the lead of each person she meets. She believes people know their own story and brings experience to help uncover strengths and options. Her background includes work with trauma, sexual assault recovery, addictions, and mood conditions such as bipolar disorder.

She often uses client-centered ways of working to make sessions feel grounded and respectful. Cognitive behavioral ideas are used when people want practical tools to change how they think and act. Narrative and psychodynamic perspectives help those who want to understand long-standing patterns and relationships.

Julie also has experience supporting people who are LGBT and those coping with grief, parenting stress, career challenges, and compassion fatigue. She helps people talk through family-of-origin issues, divorce and separation, and fertility or adoption concerns when those topics come up.

People find her approach straightforward and hopeful. She welcomes different faith backgrounds and is comfortable when spirituality is part of the conversation. Julie encourages small steps and uses clear strategies so progress feels manageable.

Therapeutic approaches and online care

Julie often draws on client-centered therapy which focuses on listening, validating feelings, and following the person’s own goals. This approach helps when someone needs a steady, respectful place to talk through hard experiences.

She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to offer clear tools for changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, and for building coping skills during life changes.

Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Julie will collaborate with each person to pick methods that match their goals, values, and the issues they bring. That choice can shift over time as progress or new concerns appear.

Online therapy makes regular sessions easier to keep. Video calls enable face-to-face conversation, phone sessions use less bandwidth, live chat is good for short check-ins, and text-based messaging works for ongoing reflection between meetings. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and different rhythms of life.