About Julianna
Julianna Murphy helps people managing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, and changes in life. She supports work on self-esteem, motivation, grief, trauma, and eating or body-image concerns. Julianna is a licensed clinical professional counselor and a licensed mental health counselor with six years of experience in Illinois.
She creates a calm, nonjudgmental atmosphere so people can speak honestly about what is hard for them. Her approach is straightforward and collaborative. She listens first to learn what matters most, then suggests practical steps people can try between sessions.
How Julianna works
Techniques come from therapies that focus on thoughts, behavior, values, and present-moment awareness. Sessions often include skill practice, problem-solving, and checking what is useful. Julianna draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thinking patterns and choose actions that match their values.
She also uses Client-Centered and Dialectical Behavior Therapy ideas to offer empathy, validation, and emotion regulation tools. Mindfulness practices are woven in when they fit someone’s goals. People commonly bring worries about work, relationships, parenting strain, chronic health issues, or identity and LGBT concerns.
She also supports those facing burnout, compassion fatigue, bipolar or depressive symptoms, panic or social anxiety, and life transitions. Sessions can address career questions, pregnancy-related stress, or questions about life purpose. Julianna offers help in English and works online with video, phone, live chat, or text messaging.
Her practice uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. To begin, a person completes a short matching questionnaire and schedules based on therapist availability.
Julianna lists 7 ways of working on the entry:
What Julianna works with
The areas below are the ones Julianna selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LCPC, LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Illinois |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then take actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and making big life decisions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and changing behavior through small experiments and skill practice to reduce symptoms like panic or worry.Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist listens to goals and tries methods that match those goals. If something does not fit, adjustments are made together until the approach feels useful and manageable.
Online therapy here is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging for flexibility. Video lets conversations feel more like a face-to-face visit, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat and text messaging work well for brief check-ins or for people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or health needs and support steady progress over time.
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