- Years in practice
- 25
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Licensed in
- California
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Family conflicts
- Focus
- Parenting issues
About Julie
Julie Rider is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 25 years of experience in California. She focuses on practical help for stress, anxiety, depression, and life changes. Julie also offers guidance around parenting and related family concerns based on her long personal and professional experience.
She keeps sessions straightforward and goal-focused. Conversations explore what is happening now and what small changes might make daily life easier. Julie uses tools that help people manage mood, sleep, and overwhelm without jargon.
Background and approach
Parenting conversations are grounded in real-world strategies. She shares techniques for setting boundaries, improving routines, and coping with the exhaustion that often comes with caregiving. Julie draws on experience with adoption and foster care and postpartum challenges when those topics fit the client's needs.
Her work also addresses grief, trauma and abuse, multicultural issues, and caregiving situations such as hospice and aging-related concerns. She aims to help people build practical skills for coping, decision making, and restoring energy after long stretches of stress. Julie combines client-centered listening with approaches that teach concrete skills, like cognitive-behavioral techniques and mindfulness.
The result is a collaborative space where people can try new habits and notice what helps. She encourages small steps and realistic goals to move forward.
What Julie works with
Everything Julie lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Julie helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Sleeping disorders
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Multicultural concerns
- Postpartum depression
Approaches Julie lists
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Julie uses client-centered work and cognitive behavioral techniques as part of her online practice. Client-centered therapy means she listens carefully and follows the client’s lead, helping people name priorities and set realistic goals. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety, lift mood, and improve sleep.Finding the right approach is treated as a team effort. Julie will discuss what feels most useful, try different techniques, and adjust plans based on the client's goals and feedback. That collaboration helps shape brief skill-building work or longer problem-focused work depending on what the person needs.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter, phone sessions can fit a break at work or require less bandwidth, and messaging formats work for brief check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to keep continuity of care and to use therapy in ways that fit a busy life.
Questions people ask about Julie
What kinds of concerns does she help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, parenting questions, relationship strain, grief, trauma and related issues such as sleep problems and self-esteem.
What is her therapy style like?
Sessions are practical and collaborative, mixing listening with hands-on techniques to change thoughts, habits, and daily routines.
How much clinical experience does she have?
Julie has 25 years of clinical experience working with a broad range of adult concerns.
Where is she licensed and based?
She is a California LMFT - a licensed marriage and family therapist practicing in California.
Which languages are supported in sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can international clients schedule with her?
She is not accepting international clients at this time and works with clients in her licensed region.
What formats are available for sessions?
Julie offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
How much do sessions cost and how do subscriptions work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
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