About Julie
Julie Rider is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 25 years of experience. She focuses on anxiety, depression, and life transitions, and she brings a calm, practical presence to sessions. Julie speaks plainly and helps people find steady ground when things feel unstable.
She also teaches parenting skills from real-world experience as a parent of two adult children. That background informs how she talks about routines, boundaries, and predictable ways to reduce daily stress.
How Julie works
Parents can expect straightforward guidance rather than abstract theory. Julie uses a mix of approaches to match each person’s needs. She leans on client-centered listening to understand what matters most.
She also uses practical cognitive tools and brief solution-focused steps to help people change habits and solve immediate problems. Her work covers grief, trauma and abuse, relationship strain, sleep trouble, self-esteem, career challenges, and compassion fatigue. She has additional focus on adoption and foster care, aging and geriatric issues, autism and Asperger syndrome, hospice and end-of-life counseling, multicultural concerns, and postpartum depression.
Sessions aim to be collaborative and down-to-earth. Julie helps people build coping skills, make small changes that add up, and notice what already works in their lives. She invites clients to try new strategies and adjust the plan as needed.
Julie lists 4 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
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- LGBT
- Multicultural concerns
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 25 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
How Julie’s approaches translate to online sessions
Client-centered work focuses on listening and reflecting so clients feel heard and understood. In online sessions this means the therapist helps you name priorities and guides conversations around what matters most to you.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) offers concrete tools to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Online CBT sessions include practical exercises, thought records, and step-by-step plans that can be used between appointments to reduce anxiety or depression symptoms.
Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices that reduce reactivity to stress. These techniques are introduced in short guided exercises and can be practiced during daily routines to improve sleep, focus, and emotional balance.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Julie will work with clients to identify goals, try methods that fit personal preferences, and adjust plans as progress is made. The therapist and client decide together which strategies feel most helpful.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let you use visual cues for a fuller conversation, phone sessions require less bandwidth and can fit a break at work, and live chat or text-based messaging allow brief check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to continue care while balancing family, work, and daily life.
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