About Julie
Julie Mayer Norvilas welcomes people who are feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or uncertain about next steps. She writes plainly and listens closely so clients can name what matters to them. Julie uses a calm, curious style and helps people move at a pace that feels manageable.
Julie is a licensed marriage and family therapist - LMFT - with 16 years of practice. She focuses on stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship and intimacy concerns, and struggles with self-esteem and career changes.
How Julie works
She also supports people dealing with parenting challenges, compassion fatigue, and LGBT-related issues. Her work draws on attachment-based ideas to help people notice patterns that influence relationships. She blends client-centered listening with emotion-focused strategies to help people connect to what they feel and why it matters.
Julie also uses elements of the Gottman Method and mindfulness to build practical skills for better communication and emotional regulation. Sessions typically include time to understand a problem, try a new way of responding, and plan small steps to test between appointments. She incorporates coaching-style tools when people want concrete behavior changes alongside emotional work.
Julie offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules. Julie practices from Pennsylvania and accepts English-speaking clients, including international clients. New people begin by using the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and scheduling a time that fits their needs.
Julie lists 8 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
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 16 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Pennsylvania |
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Online support options
Approach and online options for emotional and relationship work
Julie combines attachment-based ideas with Emotionally-Focused Therapy to help people understand patterns that shape their feelings and interactions. Attachment-based work looks at how early relationship patterns affect current closeness and trust, which can be useful for people dealing with abandonment, attachment issues, or family of origin concerns. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people name and sit with strong emotions, then use that awareness to change how they respond in important relationships.She also draws on client-centered therapy, which centers the person's own goals and experience. That means finding the right mix of approaches happens together: the therapist and client decide what to try based on needs, goals, and what feels useful in early sessions. This collaborative process lets the plan shift as progress emerges.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make work possible around busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for emotion-focused exercises. Phone sessions can fit a lunch break or reduce bandwidth needs. Live chat and text messaging are practical for short check-ins, coaching-style guidance, or when scheduling a longer session is difficult. These options increase flexibility and help people stay consistent with therapy.
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