Julie Thomas, LPC

Julie Thomas is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 25 years of work in counseling. She focuses on practical, straightforward help for stress, anxiety, depression, grief, parenting concerns, and trauma-related issues.

Julie draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and client-centered methods to shape sessions around what each person needs. She uses plain language and short-term goals to help people manage symptoms and try new ways of coping. Mindfulness and solution-focused tools are woven into her work when they fit the situation.

Her background includes outpatient counseling, school-based counseling, therapeutic foster care, and adoption services. Those experiences inform how she helps people facing adoption-related questions, attachment challenges, blended family issues, and family-of-origin concerns. She also supports people dealing with anger, sleep problems, impulsivity, and isolation.

Julie emphasizes a strengths-based, team approach. She treats clients as the experts on their own lives and partners with them to build on existing skills. That means practical strategies, step-by-step changes, and checking progress together.

Sessions often focus on skills you can use right away - breathing and mindfulness for stress, thought tracking for anxiety, and clear communication techniques for relationship strain. Julie also offers hypnotherapy when appropriate and pulls from solution-focused work for shorter-term goals. Her practice is based in Oklahoma and she provides services in English.

Approaches that translate well to online therapy

Julie commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and client-centered methods in online sessions. CBT focuses on noticing thoughts and testing them against real-life evidence to reduce anxiety and improve mood, which works well over video or phone when tracking patterns and practicing new skills. Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening and building rapport so the person feels heard and supported; that approach helps establish goals and pacing in any remote format. Hypnotherapy is also offered as an option and can support relaxation, motivation, and sleep-related work when the person is comfortable trying it.

Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work together. The therapist partners with each person to choose methods that match their goals, preferences, and situation. That means trying tools, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan over time rather than committing to one fixed path up front.

Online sessions give practical flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video works well for face-to-face conversation and skill practice, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat or text-based messaging suits brief check-ins or people who prefer writing, and all formats make it easier to fit counseling into a busy schedule. These options help people access consistent care without needing to travel.