About Julie
Dr. Julie Griffin is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with 18 years of clinical experience based in Indiana. She combines practical skills with a calm, straightforward manner to help people navigate stress, anxiety, parenting challenges, trauma, and addiction.
Julie uses clear language and invites clients to describe their goals so sessions stay focused and useful. Julie began her path with undergraduate and master’s studies in clinical and counseling psychology at the University of Louisville.
How Julie works
She completed a doctorate in psychology at Spalding University, which broadened her work to include children, adolescents, and family-related concerns. Early work included in-home support using Applied Behavior Analysis with autistic and developmentally delayed young people. Her background spans schools, hospitals, prisons, group homes, community mental health, and independent practice.
She has led substance abuse and anger management programs and taught parenting and family reunification classes. That experience shaped a flexible style that adapts to each person’s needs. In sessions she follows a strength-based, client-centered stance and draws on a mix of approaches such as cognitive behavioral methods, attachment-focused ideas, acceptance and commitment practices, and emotionally-focused tools.
These are chosen to fit specific problems like grief, relationship and intimacy issues, eating and sleeping concerns, or coping with life changes. Outside of work she enjoys arts and crafts, games, and Legos, and has often included therapeutic animals during treatment. Julie aims to create a nonjudgmental space where people can talk about struggles and successes and build practical steps forward.
Julie lists 14 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
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
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 18 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Indiana |
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Online support options
How her evidence-based approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying values and taking small, meaningful actions even when emotions are difficult. It can help with anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes by teaching practical skills for living in line with what matters most.Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in close relationships and how early experiences shape current reactions. It is useful for relationship and intimacy-related issues, abandonment or attachment concerns, and for improving communication and emotional connection.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It is commonly used for stress, anxiety, depression, sleep and eating concerns, and for building concrete coping strategies.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. She will listen to your goals and try methods that fit your needs and preferences, then adjust based on what helps. The focus is collaborative and practical, not one-size-fits-all.
Online sessions offer flexibility through multiple formats: video calls when visual contact helps, phone sessions when bandwidth is limited, live chat for quicker check-ins, or text-based messaging for ongoing support. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, to have shorter or longer touchpoints, and to choose the format that best supports steady progress.
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