Julie Mitton, LCSW

Julie Mitton is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Utah who uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) alongside other talk therapies to help people find practical ways to feel better. She draws on 18 years of clinical experience to guide short- and long-term work. Her background includes outpatient and school mental health settings. That range shaped a straightforward style: set clear goals, practice new skills, and check progress each session. She helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and life transitions with hands-on strategies. Julie combines CBT with attachment-informed ideas and client-centered listening. Sessions focus on understanding how thoughts and patterns affect emotions and relationships, then trying different responses in real life. She also uses elements of dialectical behavior therapy and emotionally-focused approaches when they fit the client's goals. Parents will find practical parenting skills and support for challenges such as blended family concerns, caregiver stress, or communication problems. She also addresses intimacy issues, abandonment or attachment worries, codependency, and career or life-purpose questions. Julie describes therapy as teamwork. She aims to teach coping tools, build confidence, and help people apply skills between sessions. She notes that video or phone connections work best with a reliable internet link and that she provides sessions only when clients are physically located in Utah. Outside work she is a parent and sometimes shares that perspective in sessions. Her approach is warm, nonjudgmental, and goal-oriented, with attention to real-world changes a person can try between appointments.

How CBT and Attachment Work Online

Julie frequently uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors to reduce stress and anxiety. CBT breaks problems into smaller parts and offers clear exercises to practice between sessions, which works well over video or messaging.

She also draws on Attachment-Based Therapy to look at relational patterns and how early bonds influence current reactions. This approach is useful for intimacy concerns, abandonment worries, and communication problems because it focuses on safe and corrective emotional interactions.

Finding the right approach is a shared process. Julie will discuss goals and preferences, try techniques together, and adjust the plan based on what helps most. Clients and therapist decide collaboratively which methods to keep using.

Online formats - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging - make therapy more flexible. Video is good for a full session where body language matters. Phone calls can work when bandwidth is limited or for a quick check-in. Live chat or text messages can help with brief updates, reminders, or short coaching between longer sessions. These options let people fit therapy into work, parenting, or caregiving schedules while using the approaches described above.