If you are tired of living a life that is far from your ideal and feeling dissatisfied with life, tired of life stressors such as, relationship issues, and/or tired being in a negative emotional states (anxious/depressed/frustrated/angry/annoyed/exchanged/sad) due to life's ongoing challenges causing you distress in every way ... you have visited the right page. Happy 2025 to you and welcome to my profile! I am Julienne (Jay), your therapist. I appreciate seeing you make your wellness and well-being a priority whether for yourself alone or for your relationship. I enjoy helping people create the life they dream of. My area of expertise is working with couples primarily dealing with all issues ranging from communication, conflict, past unresolved issues, negative emotional triggers, and/or betrayal issues such as infidelity. I do however also work with individuals dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, adjustment issues, and for sure relationship issues. I am most interested in your best hope (ideal life) and helping you to make it your reality through my solution focused process.
What can clients expect to take away from sessions with you?
To make an informed decision about working with me, during our first session together I will learn about your presenting issues, give your details about my approach in how I believe would be best to support you, and answer any questions you might have for me. *FOR COUPLES, it's important that you complete the comprehensive couple's assessment, we will discuss this more during our first session together. During the first session, we are establishing your ideal goal. I like to start with the end in mind, this helps me to customize your therapeutic experience in a way that will best meet your needs. We will then go from there. The expectation is that you understand that this is a partnership, I bring my expertise as a professional and you bring yours as the person/couple knowing what you desire, and you are ready to put in the work necessary to achieve it. ***It's important to note here that there is a late cancellation and no-show charge of $60, if you've booked and need to cancel or reschedule your appointment for any reason, do so 24 hours before your scheduled session to avoid fees.***
Explain to clients what areas you feel are your biggest strengths.
My greatest strength is working with couples. This is a work of passion for me, beyond my academic knowledge I have over a decade's worth of experience supporting couples and I have personal marriage experience as well. I also work well with individuals dealing with life stressors, self-esteem issues, adjustment issues, interpersonal relationship issues, communication issues, maladaptive coping problems, depression, and/or anxiety.
Describe the client(s) you are best positioned to serve.
My clients are adult preferably 21 years or older and couples who are in serious and committed relationships. With issues mentioned prior. I specialize couples work, helping to alleviate relationship stress and restore peace and connection. My approach is structured yet flexible to meet your unique needs. My unique approach has been praised for reducing emotional tension, repairing betrayal issues (infidelity) with less emotional pain, deepening intimacy, and enhancing connection, communication, and conflict resolution for couples. If you're a couple having more a preference for coaching services do reach out to find out more about those services. If you are an individual looking to do some personal self-growth work, note therapy is a vulnerable process. You're best results are experienced to the degree as which you're most vulnerable. If you are dealing with any of life stressors or simply looking to get your life on track in a way that would be best suited for you, I am excited to support you in your journey using solution-focused approaches and other interventions that would best address your needs.
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Solution Focused Brief Treatment
This method helps to reach treatment goals in fewer sessions 3-10 typically but can be more depending on the severity of presenting issues. I use this method to address all matters in my practice. This is a goal-oriented method, a short-term process that focuses on solutions rather than problems. My clients find this method extremely helpful, hopeful, and encouraging in helping to communicate their desired future and exploring pathways to achieving it.
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
This evidence-based approach I use to help clients identify and challenge core beliefs, negative thoughts, and maladaptive behaviors contributing to their problems. Sessions will consist of me teaching and helping you in building coping skills to encourage healthier and positive behavior changes that are implemented in practice especially outside of sessions. I use CBT together with SFBT and find it helps clients meet their goals. Again, change can be observed as early as the very first session though depending on the severity of the presenting issues, the clients' response to information, and ones level of motivation to implement tools and resources may interfere on how soon change can be experienced. CBT is mostly employed when we're addressing stress, anxiety, and depressive symptoms.
Couples Counseling
This type of psychotherapy is used with every couple I work with to help improve their relationship dynamic. My process is very unique and structured yet still caters to addressing your specific relationship needs. I do use various approaches, including solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT), attachment theory, the Gottman method, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), and a host of other methods/tools as deemed appropriate. The length of sessions depends on the severity of the couple's presenting state and is determined by the couple themselves. However I encourage committing to at least 10 sessions to stabilize the relationship back to a healthy baseline. Meaningful changes do and can be experienced as early as the first session. For this process to be effective both must first desire to address the relationship challenges together, be motivated, be open to the process, be willing to engage, and be ready to do what is recommended during and outside of the sessions.