Julie Barzal

Julie Barzal is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker who helps adults and adolescents manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship and identity concerns. She uses a straightforward, person-focused style that aims to make each session feel understandable and practical. Julie brings seven years of clinical experience and a steady, empathetic presence to sessions.

She often blends Trauma-Focused Therapy with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Client-Centered approaches, choosing tools to fit each person’s needs. Sessions can include problem solving, motivational interviewing, and cognitive behavioral techniques to address symptoms and daily challenges. Julie emphasizes clear goals and concrete steps you can try between meetings.

Her background includes work with substance use disorders, grief, blended family concerns, compassion fatigue, and issues around gender and sexual identity. She also supports people coping with chronic health conditions, caregiving stress, and major life transitions. These areas often overlap, and Julie focuses on practical strategies that address more than one concern at a time.

Julie describes her approach as strengths based and client centered. She listens actively, asks direct questions, and encourages clients to identify values and small actions that fit their life. Julie aims to make therapy a collaborative process where clients set the pace.

She holds an MA and practices in Ohio as an LICSW and an LISW. Julie values cultural humility and inclusion, and she encourages people who are nervous about starting therapy to take the first step and try a session.

How Julie uses therapeutic approaches online

Julie often integrates Trauma-Focused Therapy into work with people who have distress after difficult events. This approach focuses on recognizing how trauma affects daily life and on building coping skills to reduce distress and regain a sense of safety and control.

She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which helps people clarify their values and take small actions that matter to them even when feelings are hard. Client-Centered Therapy is another influence, where the emphasis is on listening, being nonjudgmental, and shaping goals around what the person finds important.

Choosing the right approach is a shared process. Julie will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.

If you are considering online therapy, confirm the available session formats before booking since session options are set by the therapist. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time. Many people find that focused skills practice and values-based homework translate well to remote sessions, and therapists adapt pacing and exercises to fit your day-to-day routine.