- Anxiety and depression
- Parenting support
- Adoption and foster care
About Julie
Julie Rider is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with 25 years of clinical experience in California. She focuses on anxiety, depression, stress, and life changes, and draws on a long career to guide people through difficult transitions. Julie also teaches parenting skills from lived experience as a parent of grown children. She communicates plainly and directly so people can feel understood quickly.
Julie aims to make sessions practical and recovery-focused. She helps people learn concrete strategies to manage sleep, cope with grief, and reduce burnout. Conversations cover relationship strain, self-esteem, career questions, and compassion fatigue. She also addresses issues affecting LGBT people and multicultural concerns.
Adoption and foster care matters are part of her additional focus areas, and she brings those concerns into therapy when relevant. She also has experience with aging and geriatric issues, autism and Asperger syndrome, hospice and end-of-life counseling, and postpartum depression. Her approach combines what clients need now with clear steps to move forward.
In sessions Julie blends client-centered listening with practical tools from cognitive behavioral and solution-focused methods. Mindfulness techniques are used to help with stress and sleep. She aims to help clients find small, useful changes that fit day-to-day life.
Starting therapy with Julie involves describing what matters most and setting short-term goals. She encourages steady progress and teaching skills people can use after therapy ends.
How her approaches translate to online work
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding a person's experience. The therapist reflects what she hears and follows the client's lead to build trust and clarify goals. This approach helps when people need space to talk about stress, parenting concerns, or grief.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thinking and behavior. It teaches practical skills to reduce anxiety, improve sleep, and manage depression by changing unhelpful thoughts and trying new behaviors. Solution-focused therapy concentrates on small, concrete changes and short-term goals to create quick momentum.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Julie works with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. She combines listening, skill-building, and short-term planning so clients can try approaches and adjust them over time.
Session formats are not listed in the biography, so confirm current session options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, let people check in from different locations, and shorten commute time. It also supports keeping regular appointments during work breaks or when sleep, energy, or mobility are limited.
Areas of expertise
Primary focus
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Additional focus areas
Therapeutic approaches
Experience
25+ years
Credentials
California
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What concerns does she help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, sleep problems, self-esteem, relationship strain, career stress, compassion fatigue, trauma and abuse, and parenting challenges. Additional focus areas include adoption and foster care, postpartum depression, multicultural issues, aging concerns, autism and hospice-related topics.
What is her therapeutic style?
Her work emphasizes listening first and then introducing practical tools. She uses client-centered methods alongside cognitive behavioral and solution-focused techniques, plus mindfulness practices for stress and sleep.
How much experience does she have?
She has 25 years of experience as a clinician and has spent many of those years focusing on anxiety, depression, parenting skills, and life transition issues.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She is a CA LMFT, which stands for Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, and practices in California.
What languages are supported?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside the U.S. work with her?
She does not accept international clients at this time.
How are fees and billing handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.