Julie Lynn Stanton , LCSW

Julie Lynn Stanton is a licensed clinical social worker with thirty years of experience supporting people through stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and relationship struggles. She works with adults managing addictions, bipolar challenges, life transitions, and compassion fatigue. She also helps people facing intimacy-related issues, anger, self-esteem concerns, career stress, and family-related problems. Julie practices in North Carolina and offers therapy focused on practical steps and understanding.

Julie uses straightforward talk and skill-building in sessions. She helps people notice patterns that keep them stuck and practice new ways of coping. Sessions often include concrete tools for managing strong emotions and for improving communication at work or home.

Her view is that each person has inner wisdom that can guide healing. She looks for barriers that block that wisdom, such as unhelpful thinking, difficulty calming down, or lack of information and resources. Therapy becomes a partnership where the client names priorities and they work together to address them.

Julie draws on several approaches to fit each person's needs. She blends acceptance and commitment ideas with cognitive and mindfulness-based skills, and she uses client-centered listening to shape the work. For people who have trouble with intense emotions or self-destructive patterns, she brings in strategies from dialectical behavior therapy.

In sessions clients can expect clear goals, skill practice, and focused conversations about meaning and daily coping. Julie also brings experience with aging and caregiver stress, avoidant and dependent personality patterns, codependency, family of origin concerns, and the emotional fallout from divorce and separation.

Therapeutic approaches online that focus on skills and meaning

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice what matters to them and take small actions toward those values even when emotions are strong. It is helpful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions where meaning and motivation feel lost. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on clear links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical skills to change patterns that cause distress. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, and habit changes. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, offers concrete emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills for people who experience intense emotions or relationship difficulties.

The therapist will treat finding the right approach as a team effort. She listens to a person's goals, tests strategies, and adjusts methods based on what helps. Clients and therapist decide together which combination of ACT, CBT, DBT, or client-centered techniques fits day-to-day needs and longer-term aims.

Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skill demonstrations. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or for a quick check-in. Live chat or text messaging can fit into a busy day and make shorter check-ins easier. These options help people fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while maintaining consistent progress.