Julie SchindhelmLCSW

Julie Schindhelm is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) with 22 years in mental health. She helps people sort through relationship decisions, family challenges, and life changes. Her approach aims to reduce stress and bring clarity so clients can take practical steps forward.

Julie draws on experience with couples and family dynamics and a trauma-informed perspective. She uses clear, goal-focused techniques to address anxiety, depression, and stress. Sessions often include problem solving and building coping skills that fit everyday life.

She regularly works with people facing parenting concerns, postpartum mood changes, fertility-related stress, and pregnancy and childbirth questions. Julie also supports those dealing with grief, trauma and abuse, and issues around intimacy and self-esteem.

Her toolbox includes cognitive behavioral methods to shift unhelpful thinking, Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills for managing strong emotions, and Gottman-informed ideas for improving relationship interactions. She blends mindfulness and acceptance strategies to help people stay engaged with meaningful goals.

Julie aims for therapy that feels straightforward and usable. She partners with each person to create a plan they can follow between sessions. The focus is on real change through short-term strategies and longer-term growth.

Clients can expect a calm, conversational style and a focus on practical steps. Julie meets people where they are and helps them build routines and skills that match their daily lives.

Approaches that fit online therapy sessions

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and reconnect with what matters to them. It uses simple exercises and values-based goals to guide decisions and behavior. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on changing thinking patterns and behaviors that worsen anxiety or depression; it uses practical steps like behavior experiments and thought records to test new ways of coping. Dialectical Behavior Therapy provides concrete skills for distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness; these skills are useful when feelings feel overwhelming.

Finding the right approach is part of therapy itself. The therapist collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals and preferences. Over a few sessions she and the client review what helps and adjust the plan together so it fits daily life and the issues being worked on.

Confirm current session options before booking since formats are not listed here. Many people find online sessions help fit therapy into busy schedules, reduce travel time, and make it easier to check in between appointments. Online work can also allow focused skills practice during a short break, use of worksheets in real time, and quicker follow-up when new issues come up. Licensed professionals can adapt ACT, CBT, and DBT skills to the online setting so clients keep making steady progress.