Julie Rider , LMFT

Julie Rider is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with 25 years of clinical experience helping people navigate anxiety, depression and major life changes. She draws on a broad background in working with families and individuals to offer grounded, practical guidance tailored to each person’s situation. As an LMFT she integrates relational understanding with skill-based strategies to address stress, parenting challenges, grief, trauma, sleep problems and self-esteem concerns.

Julie has a long history of teaching parenting skills and now brings both professional expertise and lived experience as a parent of two adult children. That perspective informs her work with families and caregivers, and supports interventions for adoption and foster care, postpartum depression, aging and end-of-life concerns, and multicultural issues. Her practice also supports people facing career strain, compassion fatigue, and neurodiversity-related challenges.

Julie aims to help people discover inner strengths and learn useful life skills that support lasting change. She approaches therapy as a collaborative process, offering compassionate guidance and practical tools to help clients move through difficult moments and toward more satisfying relationships and daily functioning.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care

Julie often uses client-centered therapy, which emphasizes understanding each person’s perspective and building a respectful, supportive relationship. This approach helps people explore values, relationships and life decisions while feeling heard and validated.

She also employs cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to identify and shift unhelpful thinking patterns and behaviors. CBT can be especially useful for anxiety, depression, sleep difficulties and coping with stressful life transitions because it offers concrete skills and structured practice.

Mindfulness therapy is another tool in her work, teaching simple attention and grounding practices that can reduce reactivity, improve sleep and support emotional regulation.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Julie works collaboratively with each person to determine which methods fit their needs, goals and preferences, and she adapts strategies as progress unfolds.

Online therapy options - including video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging - make it easier to access consistent care around daily commitments. These formats offer flexibility in scheduling and allow people to use therapy from locations that suit them, while still working with licensed professionals and therapists who guide treatment and provide structured support.