About Julie
Julie Blackburn is a licensed mental health counselor with 17 years of experience helping people through hard life changes. She practices in Indiana and offers a calm, steady presence for those feeling overwhelmed by stress, grief, or major transitions. She focuses on issues many people face when life shifts suddenly.
That includes anxiety, low self-esteem, grief, compassion fatigue, and adjusting after divorce or health problems. Her work also addresses caregiver stress, chronic illness, fertility and pregnancy-related concerns, and postpartum depression.
Background and approach
Julie takes a grief-informed approach and centers each conversation on what matters to the person in front of her. Sessions aim to make strong feelings easier to talk about and to build practical ways to cope day to day. She encourages self-compassion and helps people reconnect with meaning and purpose.
Her style is warm and practical. Julie listens closely, reflects what she hears, and helps clients try manageable steps between sessions. She supports people wanting clearer boundaries, more resilience, and relief from persistent worry.
Julie combines years of clinical experience with attention to individual needs. People who appreciate steady guidance and realistic tools for coping often find her approach helpful. She works with English-speaking clients in Indiana and can be reached through the site's scheduling process.
Therapeutic approaches and how online sessions help
Julie uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on grief-informed care and strategies for stress and anxiety. A grief-informed approach helps people talk about loss, process strong emotions, and find ways to carry forward what matters. Practical stress and anxiety techniques include learning how thoughts and behaviors interact, then trying small changes to reduce constant worry and build coping skills.Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist discusses goals and preferences with each person and adjusts methods as progress unfolds. This collaborative stance helps choose techniques that feel manageable and relevant to daily life.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let people keep face-to-face connection without travel, which is helpful when juggling appointments or caregiving duties. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to use video. Live chat and text-based messaging provide brief check-ins and flexibility for short updates or when a full session is hard to schedule. Together these formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to maintain continuity during transitions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Indiana, Illinois
- Languages
- English