Julie Knight, LPCC, LPC

Julie Knight is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor and Licensed Professional Counselor practicing in California. She brings three decades of mental health experience to sessions and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship strain, and identity concerns. Her approach is warm, down-to-earth, and goal oriented. Julie draws on cognitive behavioral therapy along with acceptance and commitment techniques to help people change unhelpful thinking and take values-driven action. She also uses attachment-informed work and client-centered methods to improve relationship patterns and build self-understanding. Dialectical behavior skills are offered when emotion regulation and distress tolerance are needed. In the room she aims to be practical and direct. Sessions may include identifying thinking patterns, practicing new behaviors, and setting small homework tasks between meetings. She encourages people to name what matters to them and then build steps to get closer to those goals. Julie has experience across inpatient units, crisis response programs, and outpatient therapy settings. That background informs her calm handling of sudden life changes, trauma reactions, and intense emotional moments. She has a long-standing interest in supporting LGBT people and in working with neurodivergent and highly sensitive individuals. She also helps people explore identity, intimacy, parenting concerns, career questions, and caregiver stress. Julie often uses personality typing tools as a springboard for conversations about communication style and life choices. Her work emphasizes strengths, respect for individual differences, and practical skills people can use right away.

Online approaches that match your needs

Julie commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people spot and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT focuses on practical strategies and small behavior changes that often reduce anxiety and improve mood. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is another approach she uses; it helps people clarify their values and take meaningful action even when uncomfortable thoughts or feelings are present. Attachment-Based work is used to explore patterns in relationships and to build healthier ways of relating to others.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Julie will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and how they respond to different methods. Together they decide which combination of CBT, ACT, or attachment-informed work feels most helpful and adjust plans as progress is made.

Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can fit into a shorter break or work around bandwidth limits, and chat or text can be useful for quick check-ins and ongoing coaching between meetings. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and keep regular momentum toward their goals.