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Julie Rider, LMFT
California
LMFT - Anxiety and Parenting
See online therapy options- Anxiety management
- Parenting skills
- CBT and mindfulness
About Julie
Julie Rider is a California LMFT with 25 years of clinical experience who focuses on anxiety, depression, life changes, and parenting concerns. She describes practical work on stress, coping, sleep, relationship issues, and grief. Julie uses straightforward techniques to help people manage everyday challenges.
Over her career she concentrated on areas she found most effective and rewarding. She offers guidance around parenting skills based on decades of experience raising two children. That background informs how she talks through common family and parenting strains.
Julie also supports people dealing with trauma, compassion fatigue, postpartum depression, and struggles related to adoption and foster care. She works with issues tied to aging, hospice and end-of-life counseling, and multicultural concerns.
Her approach uses practical methods such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to notice unhelpful thoughts and change small habits. She pairs that with client-centered listening and mindfulness techniques to build focused coping skills. Solution-focused work helps set clear steps when clients want short-term change.
Sessions are presented as skill-building conversations with concrete strategies. The emphasis is on simple practices you can apply between meetings, like sleep routines or thought records for anxiety. Julie aims to help people develop tools they can use in daily life.
How her approaches work for online sessions
Julie commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and test new responses. CBT focuses on specific patterns, like worry or negative sleep habits, and turns them into practical exercises and short experiments.She also uses Client-Centered Therapy in which the therapist listens and reflects to help clients clarify goals and priorities. That method supports conversations about parenting, relationship stress, and life transitions. Mindfulness Therapy is added to teach simple attention and breathing skills that reduce reactivity and improve sleep.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Julie collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, preferences, and daily routines. She checks progress and adjusts strategies when something isn’t helping.
Confirm current session options before booking so you know how sessions will be arranged. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and remove travel time. Many people find remote sessions useful for practicing skills in the context of everyday life and keeping therapy regular without a long commute.
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Experience
25+ years
Listed in
California
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What concerns does she help with most often?
She focuses on anxiety, depression, life changes, parenting, grief, trauma, sleep problems, and relationship stress.
How does she use therapy methods in sessions?
She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and habits, combined with client-centered listening and mindfulness exercises to build coping skills.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 25 years of experience working as a licensed therapist in a range of concerns from anxiety to end-of-life counseling.
What credential and location does she hold?
She is a California LMFT and practices in California.
Which languages are supported in sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can international clients work with her?
She does not accept international clients at this time.
How are sessions priced?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
What are the first steps to begin working together?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
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