About Julia
Julia Spaude is a licensed clinical social worker in Washington with seven years of experience. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, relationship strain, grief, or major life changes. Her approach treats people as the experts on their own lives and aims to build on their strengths.
Julia uses clear, practical methods that people can try between sessions. She listens without judgment and helps clients set small, realistic goals.
How Julia works
Sessions often include learning new ways to manage anxious thoughts, practicing short mindfulness exercises, and trying out different behaviors to see what helps. Her work includes concerns such as trauma and abuse, intimacy-related issues, parenting stress, career challenges, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. She also supports people dealing with body image, abandonment, attachment wounds, chronic illness and pain, and eating-related difficulties.
Conversations may cover communication problems, control and impulsivity issues, and feelings of emptiness or isolation. Treatment draws from several evidence-based approaches like Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, cognitive behavioral techniques, and client-centered methods. Motivational interviewing and solution-focused ideas sometimes guide planning and goal-setting.
Julia adapts tools to each person’s needs and pace. People who choose her often want a practical partner who offers steady support and clear steps forward. She helps clients break down big problems into manageable steps and practices tools together during sessions.
The aim is to increase coping, reduce distress, and help people move toward the life they want.
Julia lists 7 ways of working on the entry:
What Julia works with
The areas below are the ones Julia selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LICSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 7 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Washington |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small, committed actions toward them while learning to live with difficult thoughts. It can help with anxiety, depression, and life changes by shifting focus from fighting thoughts to moving toward meaningful goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and offers concrete exercises to test and change unhelpful patterns; it is often used for anxiety, depression, and sleep or anger concerns. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental relationship where the therapist listens closely and reflects what matters to the client, helping people feel understood and discover their own solutions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Julia will collaborate with each person to choose or combine methods that match their goals, preferences, and what feels doable. Sessions may shift over time as needs change, and she aims to explain why certain tools are being tried and how they might help.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video is good for deeper conversations and guided exercises, phone calls work when bandwidth is limited, live chat and texting suit quick check-ins or short coaching moments. These options help people fit sessions around work, caregiving, or medical needs while keeping therapy practical and ongoing.
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