Julie Butler, LMHC

Julie Butler is an Iowa-based licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) with a decade of clinical experience. She helps people facing anxiety, depression, relationship strain, addiction concerns, grief, and the stress of life changes. Julie also supports those coping with ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, parenting pressures, and identity-related issues for LGBT clients.

Her style is direct and practical. Sessions focus on learning clearer thinking patterns and small, useful behavior changes. Julie combines talk-based listening with goal-focused steps you can try between meetings.

Julie uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and to build different responses. She pairs that with client-centered methods that prioritize the person’s own priorities and pace. When relationship conflict appears, she draws on the Gottman Method to improve communication and repair patterns.

Expect a collaborative approach that sets short-term goals and tracks progress. Julie often uses solution-focused ideas to find what already works and expand it. Motivational interviewing techniques help when making changes feels overwhelming or stuck.

She has worked in behavioral health for ten years and brings practical tools rather than abstract theory. Sessions emphasize clear strategies, doable homework, and check-ins on what changed. Julie aims to help people feel more hopeful and more able to manage daily challenges.

How Julie’s Methods Work Online

Julie commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and practice different responses. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and for changing behaviors tied to addiction or anger. She also uses Client-Centered Therapy, which focuses on listening, understanding each person’s goals, and pacing work around what feels manageable to them.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Julie will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then suggest or blend methods to match those needs. That collaborative process lets goals evolve as progress is tracked and new challenges appear.

Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect: video calls for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions when bandwidth or mobility is a concern, live chat for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging for ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other daily routines and to pick the format that best supports each step of change.