About Julie
Julie Blackburn is a licensed therapist in Indiana with 17 years of clinical experience. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, or major life changes. Her style is warm and down-to-earth, focusing on practical steps and steady support.
She often helps people facing caregiving stress, chronic illness or pain, fertility and pregnancy-related concerns, and cancer-related challenges. She also supports those coping with divorce, loss, postpartum depression, and feelings of isolation.
How Julie works
Sessions focus on manageable goals and clearer next steps. Julie brings a grief-informed outlook to her work, which means she pays attention to how loss and change affect daily life. She encourages self-compassion and rebuilding a sense of purpose after hard experiences.
Conversations are grounded and aimed at restoring resilience. Her practice addresses emotional themes such as guilt, shame, forgiveness, and self-esteem. She helps people sort through strong emotions and develop healthier coping patterns.
Practical tools and reflective conversation are combined to fit each person’s situation. Julie works with issues connected to hospice and end-of-life care, caregiver burden, and long-term illness. She also supports people exploring life purpose and self-love.
The goal is steady progress and more confidence in facing whatever comes next.
What Julie works with
The areas below are the ones Julie selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Registers | LMHC, LCPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 17 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Indiana |
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Online support options
How evidence-based approaches translate online
Julie uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and emotional healing. One common approach is grief-informed care, which helps people name losses, process strong feelings, and find ways to re-engage in daily life after major transitions. Another key method emphasizes coping skills for stress and anxiety, teaching breathing, pacing, problem-solving, and routines that reduce overwhelm. Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Treatment choices are adjusted over time so the plan fits the person’s needs and changes as progress happens. Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let people work face-to-face from wherever they are, while phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging make it possible to check in between sessions or have shorter, focused conversations that fit a busy day. These options help people keep therapy consistent while fitting it around caregiving, medical appointments, work, and other life demands.Start online instead of waiting
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