- 25 years experience
- Skill building focus
- California LMFT
About Julie
Julie Rider is a California-based licensed marriage and family therapist with 25 years of experience. She focuses on stress, anxiety, depression, self esteem, and life transitions. Julie aims to help people build practical skills and steady themselves during change.
She works in a straightforward, supportive way. Sessions often include clear steps to reduce worry and improve day-to-day functioning. She also shares parenting strategies drawn from long personal and professional experience rather than only theory.
Julie uses approaches that help people identify unhelpful thoughts, practice present-moment awareness, and set small, achievable goals. She emphasizes simple tools clients can try between sessions. The goal is steady progress that fits real life demands.
Her background spans a broad range of concerns, including trauma, grief, sleep problems, career stress, and compassion fatigue. She also has experience with adoption and foster care, aging matters, autism spectrum issues, hospice and end-of-life counseling, multicultural concerns, and postpartum depression.
People who work with Julie typically want clear techniques and a calm, encouraging presence. She invites clients to name realistic goals and to practice new skills together. Starting therapy is framed as a step toward regaining balance and building confidence.
Julie encourages prospective clients to consider what feels most important right now and to begin with one manageable goal. That focus helps make sessions practical and easier to apply between appointments.
She works in a straightforward, supportive way. Sessions often include clear steps to reduce worry and improve day-to-day functioning. She also shares parenting strategies drawn from long personal and professional experience rather than only theory.
Julie uses approaches that help people identify unhelpful thoughts, practice present-moment awareness, and set small, achievable goals. She emphasizes simple tools clients can try between sessions. The goal is steady progress that fits real life demands.
Her background spans a broad range of concerns, including trauma, grief, sleep problems, career stress, and compassion fatigue. She also has experience with adoption and foster care, aging matters, autism spectrum issues, hospice and end-of-life counseling, multicultural concerns, and postpartum depression.
People who work with Julie typically want clear techniques and a calm, encouraging presence. She invites clients to name realistic goals and to practice new skills together. Starting therapy is framed as a step toward regaining balance and building confidence.
Julie encourages prospective clients to consider what feels most important right now and to begin with one manageable goal. That focus helps make sessions practical and easier to apply between appointments.