About Julie
Julie Tallard Johnson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with over three decades of experience. She focuses on stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, depression, addiction, ADHD, relationship and intimacy concerns, and many life transitions. Julie welcomes straightforward conversation and practical supports for people who feel stuck or overwhelmed.
She centers the relationship in her work and trusts that a genuine connection matters most. Julie combines relational listening with narrative exploration to help people make sense of their stories.
Background and approach
She also integrates body-focused awareness so emotions and sensations are part of the conversation. Sessions tend to be collaborative and down-to-earth. Julie uses clear tools and simple practices that can be tried between meetings.
She describes the client as the one directing the work while she offers options, strategies, and guidance to reach chosen goals. Julie draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Client-Centered ideas, and somatic methods to tailor sessions to each person. Her approach blends talk, practice, and bodily awareness to address feelings, habits, and coping patterns.
She has written books on trauma recovery and practical well-being, and continues to learn through trainings and clinical work. Julie works with people online and has offered therapy for many years both in-person and via remote formats.
How therapy approaches and online sessions fit together
Julie uses somatic work to help people notice how emotions show up in the body, such as tension, breath changes, or posture, and uses simple awareness and movement practices to ease those sensations. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is used to help people name values, accept difficult feelings, and take actions that matter to them. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes empathic listening and follows the person’s agenda so the conversation stays grounded in what matters most to the client.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Julie listens to your goals and preferences and suggests a mix of methods that make sense for your situation. Together you try options and adjust what is working so sessions remain relevant and practical.
Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging offers flexibility for busy schedules and different comfort levels. These formats let people access regular support from home or while traveling, use written check-ins, or choose live conversation when deeper work is needed. The mix of approaches and online formats makes it easier to fit therapy into everyday life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 33 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English