Julie Thomas , LPC

Julie Thomas is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 25 years in the counseling field. She focuses on helping people manage anxiety, depression, grief, parenting challenges, and issues tied to adoption and family of origin. Her work is straightforward and practical, aimed at supporting women through life transitions and stress.

Julie earned a Master of Education in Community Counseling from the University of Central Oklahoma. Her background includes outpatient counseling, therapeutic foster care, school-based counseling, and adoption work. Those roles gave her experience with a wide range of concerns and populations.

In sessions she uses client-centered methods that start with listening and building on each person’s strengths. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to identify unhelpful thinking and to practice different behaviors. She also draws on mindfulness techniques to help with stress and sleeping difficulties.

Julie includes solution-focused strategies to set concrete goals and track progress. Hypnotherapy is listed among her approaches and is offered when appropriate and agreed upon by the client.

Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth. She describes therapy as a team effort where the client’s experience guides the work. People seeking help with self-esteem, relationship strain, trauma and abuse, parenting strain, ADHD, or compassion fatigue will find a practical, steady approach in her practice.

How Julie’s Approaches Work Online

Client-centered therapy starts by focusing on the person's perspective and strengths. It means sessions begin with listening, clarifying goals, and building on what already helps the client cope. This approach is useful for issues like low self-esteem, life changes, and relationship concerns.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It uses practical exercises and small experiments to change thinking patterns and develop healthier habits, which can help with anxiety, depression, and sleep problems.

Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce stress and improve emotional regulation. It is often paired with other methods to support coping with trauma, anger, and compassion fatigue.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss options, try methods that match goals, and adjust plans based on how things are going. Clients help shape the process and decide what feels most useful.

Online sessions are offered by licensed professionals using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls are good for a face-to-face feel, phone can be easier when bandwidth is low, live chat works for short check-ins, and messaging lets people write between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep progress moving forward.