About Julie
Julie Fuentes is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) who speaks English and Spanish. She focuses on helping people manage anxiety, depression, relationship strain, and the stress of life changes. Julie aims to create a caring, nonjudgmental space where clients can talk through what matters most to them.
Julie has 12 years of experience in mental health. Her background includes work across inpatient and outpatient settings, community mental health, foster care services, and residential and correctional youth programs.
How Julie works
That range has given her familiarity with trauma, bipolar disorder, addictions, and complicated family-of-origin issues. She uses a mix of approaches to fit each person’s needs. Julie draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships affect current bonds.
She also uses client-centered methods to keep sessions grounded in the person’s priorities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) are part of her toolkit for practical skills work, such as managing intense emotions or changing unhelpful thinking. She also brings elements of Jungian therapy when exploring deeper patterns and meaning in a person’s life.
Julie pays attention to cultural background and sexual identity, and she includes topics like BDSM and alternative sex culture without judgment. She supports people dealing with grief, intimacy concerns, parenting strain, career stress, and midlife questions. People can expect a collaborative process where goals are set together and progress is checked along the way.
Julie works from California and offers services in both English and Spanish.
Julie lists 11 ways of working on the entry:
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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 12 |
| Languages | English, Spanish |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches that work online
Julie often draws on attachment-based therapy to help people understand how early relationships shape current patterns. This approach looks at connection needs and how to build healthier bonds in daily life. She also uses client-centered therapy, which keeps the conversation focused on the person's own goals and values and encourages self-directed change.CBT is also part of her practice for people who want practical tools to manage anxiety, mood, or unhelpful thinking. CBT techniques can be used in short exercises during sessions and practiced between meetings to build new habits.
Figuring out the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each client about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. That collaborative process makes it easier to try strategies and adjust them over time.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video sessions are useful for face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can fit a quick check-in or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging support shorter updates, between-session coaching, or times when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life while keeping a consistent process with a licensed professional.
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