Julie Allen, LPC

Julie Allen is an LPC (Licensed Professional Counselor) based in Georgia with 20 years of experience. She approaches therapy with respect for each person's story and strengths. She invites people who are anxious, stressed, grieving, or navigating major life changes to take a step toward healing.

Allen focuses on practical help for common problems like anxiety, depression, relationship strain, addiction, and trauma. She also supports people facing parenting challenges, career stress, eating concerns, ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, and compassion fatigue. Her background includes work with LGBTQ individuals and people affected by sexual assault.

In sessions she centers the person’s experience and helps them tell their story in ways that feel true. She uses a mix of approaches to tailor work to what each person needs. This can include looking at patterns, challenging unhelpful thoughts, and building on what’s already working in someone’s life.

Julie draws on two decades of practice in clinical settings and community work. Her faith is important to her, and she welcomes clients with or without a spiritual background. She encourages people to bring their whole selves to sessions, including beliefs and values that matter to them.

Starting therapy can feel hard, and Julie aims to make it straightforward. She supports people through grief, family tension, adoption and foster care questions, fertility and aging issues, dissociation, and many other concerns related to life transitions and past hurts.

How Julie’s Approaches Translate to Online Work

Client-centered therapy puts the person’s priorities first and focuses on listening, reflecting, and helping people find their own answers. This approach is useful for relationship concerns, grief, and life transitions where being heard matters most.

Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical tools for changing unhelpful patterns. CBT can help with anxiety, depression, and coping skills for everyday stress.

Narrative therapy invites people to tell and reorganize their life stories so painful events no longer define them. It can be helpful for trauma, identity questions, and experiences like adoption or family-of-origin issues.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Julie will collaborate with each person to choose which methods to use, combining styles when that makes sense. Therapy is shaped around the client’s goals, pace, and preferences rather than a one-size-fits-all plan.

Confirm current session formats before booking so you know what options are available. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day, reduce travel time, and allow for check-ins during a work break or between responsibilities. They also let people work with a licensed professional in Georgia while living elsewhere, subject to scheduling and any cross-jurisdiction considerations.