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Julie Fuentes, LMFT

Bilingual marriage and family therapist focused on healing

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About Julie

Julie Fuentes is a bilingual clinician who speaks English and Spanish. She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with 12 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, and trauma.

Background and approach

She works with individuals and couples on a range of concerns such as grief, addictions, intimacy issues, sleeping problems, and career stress. Julie also supports people facing identity and community questions, including clients from LGBT backgrounds and diverse cultural groups.

In session she focuses on building trust and listening without judgment. Julie uses straightforward conversation to identify patterns and find practical steps that fit each person's life.

She mixes insight about attachment and personal history with tools to manage strong emotions and negative thoughts. Her approach draws from Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and Jungian ideas.

That means she pays attention to relationship patterns, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts, teaches emotional regulation skills, and explores deeper personal meaning when useful. Julie has worked in inpatient, outpatient, community mental health, foster care, correctional, and residential youth settings.

She brings that variety of experience to sessions in California and aims to tailor care to each person's background and goals.

Working with attachment, thoughts, and emotions online

Julie draws from Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early and current relationships shape thoughts and feelings, which can help with relationship strain, abandonment fears, and intimacy concerns. She also uses Client-Centered Therapy to create a respectful, nonjudgmental space where the client's goals guide the work and the therapist reflects what she hears to promote understanding.

Julie often pairs those approaches with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot unhelpful thought patterns and build practical coping skills for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and anger. She explains techniques in simple terms and practices them with clients so skills can be used between sessions. She and the client decide together which methods fit best based on needs and goals, and she adjusts the plan as progress is made.

Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video is useful for longer conversations and skill practice, phone can fit into a work break or when bandwidth is low, and chat or messaging can support shorter check-ins or ongoing coaching between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives while working toward clearer relationships and better emotional coping.

Frequently asked questions

What kinds of concerns does Julie address?
She helps with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship issues, trauma and abuse, grief, addictions, intimacy concerns, sleeping problems, parenting strain, anger, low self-esteem, career challenges, bipolar symptoms, and coping with life changes.
How would you describe her therapy style?
Her style blends listening and practical work. She uses attachment ideas, client-centered listening, cognitive behavioral tools, and DBT skills to help people manage emotions and change unhelpful patterns.
What is her clinical background?
Julie has 12 years of experience and has worked in inpatient, outpatient, community mental health, foster care, correctional, and residential youth settings.
Where is she based and what are her credentials?
She practices in California and holds a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist credential, listed as LMFT.
Which languages are supported during sessions?
Sessions are offered in English and Spanish.
What formats are available for sessions?
Julie offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
What should someone do to begin therapy?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.

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Experience
12 years
Licensed
California
Languages
English, Spanish