Julie Gallivan, LPC

Julie Gallivan is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Michigan who uses practical, skills-based methods to help people manage stress, anxiety, mood concerns, and relationship struggles. She brings six years of clinical experience and a calm, straightforward style to sessions. Julie welcomes conversations about faith when clients ask, and she can include prayer as part of care when requested.

Julie leans on cognitive behavioral techniques to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She also uses acceptance and commitment ideas and person-centered listening to help clients clarify values, build coping skills, and make steady progress. Mindfulness and narrative approaches are woven in to support emotional regulation and new ways of making sense of difficult events.

Clients often come for help with parenting stress, family conflict, communication problems, grief, trauma, or workplace strain. Julie also works with mood disorders such as depression and bipolar disorder, attention challenges, and substance-related concerns. She pays attention to family of origin issues, abandonment themes, and blended family challenges when those come up.

Sessions are practical and collaborative. Julie helps people set small, achievable goals and practices strategies between meetings. She focuses on building tools for real life, like managing strong emotions, improving communication, and reducing avoidance.

Julie offers care through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging for people in Michigan and beyond. Her approach is warm and direct, aiming to help people feel steadier and more able to handle life’s demands.

How CBT and ACT translate to online therapy

Julie uses cognitive behavioral approaches to help people spot patterns of thinking that increase anxiety or low mood and then try small behavior changes to test new results. CBT can be helpful for concerns like anxiety, depression, impulsivity, and stress by breaking large problems into actionable steps.

She also draws on acceptance and commitment therapy to help people clarify what matters to them and build actions that match those values. ACT techniques tend to focus on reducing avoidance, learning new ways to relate to difficult thoughts, and committing to valued behaviors over time.

Finding the best approach is part of the work. Julie will talk with clients about goals, preferences, and what feels helpful, then tailor methods together in an ongoing, collaborative way. That conversation helps decide whether CBT exercises, ACT values work, mindfulness practice, or narrative reflection fits best.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which makes scheduling more flexible. Video works well for longer sessions and skills practice, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging suits shorter check-ins or between-session support. These options let people fit therapy into busy lives and try different ways of connecting as needs change.