About Julie
Julie Rider is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 25 years of clinical experience in California. She focuses on helping people navigate anxiety, depression, stress, life transitions, and relationship challenges.
Background and approach
Julie also supports parents who want practical skills for day-to-day family life and people coping with grief or trauma. Julie uses straightforward, practical methods to help people feel steadier.
She draws on client-centered listening to learn what matters most. She pairs that with cognitive behavioral ideas to spot unhelpful patterns and try new approaches.
Mindfulness and solution-focused work help people build small habits and solve immediate problems. Her background includes long experience supporting a wide range of concerns such as postpartum depression, adoption and foster care issues, aging and geriatric topics, and multicultural matters.
She also brings knowledge about caregiving, hospice and end-of-life counseling, autism and Asperger syndrome, and compassion fatigue. Sessions are aimed at teaching clear skills and workable strategies.
Clients practice new responses, try short experiments, and check what helps in daily life. Julie keeps sessions practical and paced to each person’s needs.
Many people seek her out when routine coping feels strained or when a life change creates uncertainty. She works in English and offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to match different routines and comfort levels.
Approaches you can use in online sessions
Julie combines client-centered listening with cognitive behavioral ideas to create clear, actionable sessions. Client-centered work focuses on understanding what matters to each person and shaping sessions around their goals. Cognitive behavioral techniques look at thoughts and behaviors to try small experiments that reduce anxiety or lift mood.Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. The therapist will check goals, preferences, and how a person responds, then adapt methods over time. Clients and the therapist agree on priorities and track progress together so approaches evolve as needed.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into everyday life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, updating progress between sessions, or getting support during a tough day. These options aim to increase flexibility so people can use therapeutic tools where and when they need them.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- LGBT
- Multicultural concerns
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English