Julie Vierling, LMSW, LISW

Julie Vierling is a licensed social worker practicing in Ohio with 28 years of clinical experience. She holds the LMSW designation and the LISW designation and has worked with many people facing long-term emotional challenges.

She focuses on common problems like anxiety and depression. She also helps people dealing with trauma, grief, panic, obsessive thoughts, and addictions. Julie uses practical, evidence-informed methods to help people manage symptoms and regain day-to-day functioning.

Julie adapts her approach to each person's needs. She combines cognitive behavioral techniques with acceptance and commitment strategies, mindfulness, and skills from dialectical behavior therapy. Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented, with clear steps to try between meetings.

She supports people struggling with relationship and intimacy issues, parenting stresses, sleep and eating difficulties, anger, low self-esteem, and career transitions. Additional focus areas include codependency, domestic violence recovery, process addictions, and mood disorders such as bipolar and disruptive mood dysregulation disorder.

Julie also works with concerns like postpartum depression, compassion fatigue, somatic symptoms, OCD patterns, and trichotillomania. Her style is steady and practical. She helps people set manageable goals and build skills that fit their daily lives.

Therapeutic approaches and online delivery

Julie commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people identify unhelpful thinking and try practical behavior changes. CBT is often useful for anxiety, depression, panic, and obsessive-compulsive patterns. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is another part of her work and focuses on clarifying personal values and taking committed action even when difficult thoughts or feelings appear. Dialectical Behavior Therapy contributes emotion regulation and interpersonal skills for people who struggle with intense emotions or unstable mood.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Julie talks with each person about goals, preferences, and how symptoms show up in daily life, then recommends whether CBT, ACT, DBT skills, or a mix will likely be most helpful. Plans are adjusted over time based on progress and feedback.

Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care flexible. Video is useful for fuller conversation and visual cues, phone can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited, and messaging supports quick check-ins or continued work between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, and travel while keeping focus on concrete skills and steady progress.