- Anxiety and depression
- Parenting skills
- Practical life goals
About Julie
Julie Rider is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 25 years of experience. She focuses on anxiety, depression, and life changes and aims to help people find steady ground during difficult periods. Julie draws on long experience and practical, straightforward guidance in sessions.
She offers a calm, down-to-earth approach that centers on the person in front of her. Sessions often involve listening carefully, identifying patterns that make life harder, and trying small, manageable changes. She also teaches parenting skills based on years of lived experience raising two children, not just theory.
Julie uses several well-known therapy styles to match what each person needs. She may work in ways that help change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, build awareness and stress management, or focus on short-term problem solving to get immediate relief. The plan is shaped around daily life and real goals.
Julie has additional experience with grief, trauma and abuse, adoption and foster care, aging and end-of-life concerns, and postpartum depression. She also supports people navigating LGBT and multicultural challenges, sleeping and self-esteem problems, and career or compassion fatigue issues.
Her style is practical and encouraging. She helps people learn skills they can use between sessions and aims to make therapy feel relevant to everyday life. To begin, readers can use the site Start Therapy button to fill a short matching questionnaire and schedule a first appointment.
She offers a calm, down-to-earth approach that centers on the person in front of her. Sessions often involve listening carefully, identifying patterns that make life harder, and trying small, manageable changes. She also teaches parenting skills based on years of lived experience raising two children, not just theory.
Julie uses several well-known therapy styles to match what each person needs. She may work in ways that help change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, build awareness and stress management, or focus on short-term problem solving to get immediate relief. The plan is shaped around daily life and real goals.
Julie has additional experience with grief, trauma and abuse, adoption and foster care, aging and end-of-life concerns, and postpartum depression. She also supports people navigating LGBT and multicultural challenges, sleeping and self-esteem problems, and career or compassion fatigue issues.
Her style is practical and encouraging. She helps people learn skills they can use between sessions and aims to make therapy feel relevant to everyday life. To begin, readers can use the site Start Therapy button to fill a short matching questionnaire and schedule a first appointment.
This summary is based on the profile information listed on BetterHelp.