Dr. Julie Griffin , LMHC

Dr. Julie Griffin is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in Indiana with 18 years of clinical experience. She trained in psychology up through a doctorate and has worked across settings such as hospitals, schools, group homes, prisons, and community mental health programs. Her background includes work with adults as well as children and adolescents, and she has experience in substance abuse treatment, anger management, parenting classes, and family reunification.

She uses a strength-based, client-centered style that focuses on practical steps. Sessions are a place to talk about feelings and try small changes that fit daily life. She draws on proven methods such as cognitive techniques and emotion-focused work to help people manage anxiety, depression, trauma, and stress.

Dr. Griffin also supports people dealing with parenting challenges, adoption and foster care issues, ADHD, grief, intimacy concerns, and relationship or communication problems. She has worked with people coping with chronic illness, body image and eating concerns, addictions, and a range of personality and attachment issues.

Her approach is collaborative and flexible. She adapts methods to each person - using acceptance and commitment ideas, attachment-focused work, and client-centered listening when appropriate. Practical tools and clear goals are part of most plans.

Outside of sessions she enjoys arts and crafts, games, Legos, and animals. She has used therapeutic animals in past work and values the ways animals can help people calm and connect. The overall aim is to help people regain balance and improve daily functioning.

Online approaches that match your needs

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages people to notice thoughts without getting stuck in them and to commit to actions that reflect their values. It can help with anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes by focusing on what matters most. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, behaviors, and emotions interact and uses simple exercises to change unhelpful patterns. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, and sleep or eating concerns. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current bonds and helps people build safer, more secure connections in close relationships and around intimacy.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they will choose or blend methods so sessions feel useful and relevant to daily life.

Online sessions are available by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into a busy schedule. Video is helpful for face-to-face conversation and teaching exercises, phone works when bandwidth is limited, live chat or messaging can be used for quick check-ins or shorter exchanges, and text options let someone reflect and respond on their own time. These choices make it easier to keep regular contact and to use therapy in the ways that best support each person.