About Julie
Julie Setnan is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Illinois who helps people manage stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, grief, and life transitions. She offers a calm, listening presence and aims to create a straightforward space where clients can talk through what matters most to them.
Julie draws on eight years of clinical experience and a long personal interest in helping others. She values optimism and kindness in sessions and encourages clients to take small, practical steps forward.
How Julie works
Messages are checked during weekdays and typically receive a reply within 24 to 48 hours. Her approach blends conversational listening with hands-on strategies. Julie uses client-centered methods to follow each person's pace.
She also applies cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking and build better daily routines. For relationship concerns she brings emotionally-focused tools and elements of the Gottman Method to improve communication and repair connection. For trauma-related issues she can incorporate EMDR when appropriate to address distressing memories and reactions.
Julie offers weekly appointments by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging during several weekday afternoons. She supports people coping with parenting, compassion fatigue, codependency, OCD-related problems, panic, postpartum depression, veteran and armed forces issues, and more. Sessions are scheduled to fit a client’s needs and timing.
To begin, a person chooses the Start Therapy path, completes a short matching questionnaire, and schedules a time that fits the therapist’s availability.
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
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Anger management
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 8 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Illinois |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
How Julie uses proven approaches online
Julie often combines client-centered care with cognitive behavioral techniques to help people identify unhelpful thought patterns and build new coping habits. Client-centered work means she follows each person's lead, listens closely, and focuses on what the client wants to change. CBT provides concrete steps and exercises for everyday behavior and mood changes.She also uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy for relationship and attachment concerns. EFT helps people name feelings, understand interaction patterns, and practice new ways of connecting. For trauma-related symptoms Julie can incorporate Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, which targets distressing memories and the body’s reactions to those memories.
Finding the right approach is collaborative. Julie will discuss goals, preferences, and the issues you bring and then suggest which methods to try first. She adapts plans over time based on what helps most and encourages honest feedback throughout the work.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which let people choose what fits their schedule. Video is useful for deeper conversations and visual cues, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, chat works for focused check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into weekday afternoons and busy lives.
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