About Julie
Julie Gallivan is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Michigan who uses practical, down-to-earth methods to help people facing difficult life moments. She focuses on relationship and family issues, parenting stress, anxiety, depression, and coping with major changes. Julie keeps sessions simple and focused so parents can talk through real problems and leave with workable steps.
Julie draws from acceptance and commitment techniques alongside cognitive behavioral and mindfulness practices to shape sessions.
How Julie works
She helps people notice unhelpful patterns, test small changes, and build routines that reduce daily stress. Work often centers on improving communication, handling grief or trauma, and managing mood or impulse concerns. Her six years of clinical experience include addressing addictions, compassion fatigue, chronic illness challenges, and body image or self-esteem struggles.
She also supports those coping with abandonment, adoption and foster care questions, blended family tensions, and separation or divorce-related stress. Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person's needs. Julie encourages clear goals, practical homework, and repeated check-ins so progress is steady.
She also blends narrative approaches to help people reframe old stories and find different ways to move forward. Julie offers therapy in English and works with clients across Michigan and beyond. She provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit busy schedules.
Getting started begins with a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a first session.
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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.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Michigan |
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Online support options
Approach-Based Online Therapy that Fits Your Life
Julie often uses acceptance and commitment therapy to help people notice what matters, accept difficult feelings, and take small steps toward chosen goals. ACT is useful for anxiety, stress, and when decisions feel stuck.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy to identify thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and to practice new, more helpful responses. CBT works well for mood concerns, worry, and impulse control. Mindfulness techniques are woven into sessions to teach simple attention and breathing skills that reduce reactivity and improve focus.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Julie will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and then try methods that fit. She checks in and adapts the plan so the work stays useful and relevant.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for face-to-face connection and nonverbal cues, while phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief check-ins, short checkups between sessions, or when typing feels more comfortable. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy family or work routines.
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