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Julie Tallard Johnson, LCSW
Wisconsin
Licensed Clinical Social Worker - stress and trauma
See online therapy options- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
- Somatic awareness
About Julie
Julie Tallard Johnson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in Wisconsin with 33 years of experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, and challenges like addiction, ADHD, relationship and intimacy concerns, and parenting strain. Sessions focus on practical steps and clear strategies you can try between meetings.
Julie uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy alongside acceptance and awareness-based methods. She emphasizes the therapeutic relationship and listens without judgment. She helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and habits, then tests different ways of responding to them.
Her approach combines relational, narrative, and somatic work. Relational work means she pays attention to the quality of interaction between client and therapist. Narrative work helps people examine the stories they tell themselves and change patterns that no longer serve them.
Somatic work brings attention to bodily experience - breath, sensations, and movement - as part of emotional understanding. Julie also draws on mindfulness and ACT-style acceptance practices when useful, and she offers concrete tools from CBT for immediate use.
She frames the client as the leader of the work and herself as a guide offering options. Sessions aim to build simple strategies, insights, and routines that can be used in daily life. She has written books on well-being and trauma recovery and continues ongoing training in somatic awareness and breath practices.
How cognitive and acceptance approaches work in online sessions
Julie commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and test unhelpful thoughts and habits. CBT offers practical exercises and small behavioral experiments that can be assigned between sessions to change patterns over time.She also integrates Acceptance and Commitment Therapy principles, which focus on noticing difficult feelings without fighting them and choosing actions aligned with personal values. Client-Centered therapy elements guide the conversational tone so the client directs the agenda while the therapist reflects and clarifies.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Julie will discuss your goals and preferences and suggest methods to try. That process is collaborative - you and she will decide together what to focus on and how to adapt techniques to your situation.
Her biography indicates experience providing therapy online as well as in person. Confirm the current session formats before booking so you know what options are offered now. Online sessions can make it easier to fit meetings into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and remove travel time; therapists can adapt CBT exercises, acceptance practices, and somatic awareness work to a remote format so the practical tools remain usable between sessions.
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Experience
33+ years
Listed in
Wisconsin
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What concerns does she address most often?
She works with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, addiction, ADHD, relationship and intimacy-related issues, parenting strain, and related life changes.
How would she describe her therapeutic style?
Her style is practical and relational. She combines conversation about your story with hands-on strategies from CBT and body awareness practices.
How many years of experience does she have?
She has 33 years of experience as a practicing therapist and has worked both face-to-face and online.
What are her credentials and location?
She is an LCSW licensed in Wisconsin and practices from that state.
Which languages are supported and can international clients connect?
Sessions are offered in English, and she does accept international clients.
What session formats are offered?
The original biography notes work both face-to-face and online historically. Confirm current session options before booking to know which formats are available now.
How does cost and billing work?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What should I do to get started?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
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