Julie Lewis, LPC

How her approaches translate to online therapy

Existential therapy focuses on helping people clarify what matters to them and face difficult choices with more intention. In practice this looks like conversations about values, meaning, and how to live with uncertainty, which can be helpful for grief, life transitions, and questions about identity. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, teaches ways to notice painful thoughts and feelings without letting them control actions. Clients learn simple exercises to commit to small steps that align with their values, useful for anxiety, depression, and stress-related problems. Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to how early relationship patterns affect current connections. The work often centers on understanding patterns of closeness and distance and trying new ways of relating, which can help with intimacy issues and long-standing relational struggles. Finding the right approach is part of the work. Julie will collaborate with each person to select methods that match needs, goals, and preferences. That happens through conversation in early sessions and by adjusting techniques as progress unfolds. Online formats - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging - make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video is useful for deeper conversations and modeling exercises, phone calls can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat is a quicker check-in, and messaging supports short updates and between-session practice. These options offer flexibility and let people use the format that helps them engage best.