About Julie
Julie Fuentes is a bilingual Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who speaks English and Spanish. She offers straightforward, compassionate care for people dealing with stress, anxiety, relationship strain, trauma, depression, and related concerns. Julie prioritizes a calm, nonjudgmental space where clients can feel heard and start to make real changes.
She draws on 12 years of experience in mental health settings across California. That work included inpatient and outpatient care, community mental health, foster care services, correctional settings, and residential programs.
Background and approach
Julie has supported people coping with bipolar disorder, grief, addictions, intimacy issues, parenting stress, and career transitions. Her approach blends body-focused work and talk therapy. She uses Somatic techniques to help people notice how stress shows up in the body.
Attachment-based ideas guide conversations about safety and connection. Client-centered listening helps people set their pace and goals. Julie also integrates practical tools from cognitive behavioral and dialectical behavior therapy when helpful.
These methods add concrete skills for managing emotions, improving communication, and changing unhelpful patterns. The therapist adapts techniques to each person’s needs rather than using a one-size-fits-all plan. Sessions are delivered in English and Spanish and offered through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Julie is licensed in California as an LMFT (Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist). To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to therapist availability.
How somatic and attachment approaches work online
Julie uses Somatic methods to help people notice physical responses to stress and trauma, such as tightness, breath changes, or restlessness, and gently bring awareness to those sensations to reduce reactivity. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns of connection and safety in relationships and helps people build clearer communication and trust with others.She combines these approaches with client-centered listening to tailor sessions to each person. Finding the right mix is collaborative - the therapist and client review goals, try different techniques, and adjust as needed so the work fits the person’s pace and preferences.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video and phone allow real-time conversation and body-centered noticing. Live chat and text messaging add options for brief check-ins, written reflections, or ongoing support between appointments. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to continue work even when in-person meetings are not possible.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Spanish