Julie Knight

Julie Knight is a seasoned Licensed Professional Counselor based in California who brings a deep and varied background in mental health care. She is licensed as a Professional Counselor in Oklahoma (LPC, license 2847) and as a Professional Clinical Counselor in California (LPCC, license 15680). Her career has included work on inpatient psychiatric units and within crisis response programs, in addition to providing individual and family therapy. Julie’s style is person centered, strengths based, and goal oriented, offering practical support alongside meaningful insight.

She works with clients navigating life crises and losses, adjusting to change, or simply seeking to feel better and more fulfilled day to day. Julie is passionate about supporting the LGBTQ community, including those moving through the coming out process, strengthening family relationships, and cultivating healthy confidence and self-esteem in environments that can sometimes be condemning or unsupportive. She also helps family members of LGBTQ individuals learn how to offer loving support and move past barriers to being truly affirming.

Another focus of Julie’s work is with Highly Sensitive People and introverts. She recognizes how often sensitivity is misunderstood in a stressful and chaotic world, and how this can lead to criticism, mislabeling, or feeling “less than.” Julie helps clients honor sensitivity and introversion as meaningful strengths, noting that sensitives and introverts are often creative, artistic, kind, and empathetic. She supports clients in understanding these traits, building confidence, and communicating needs and feelings more clearly. If someone wonders whether they might be a Highly Sensitive Person, she notes they can search for the Highly Sensitive Person self test and explore Elaine Aron’s work online.

Julie also enjoys and has experience working with neurodivergent clients and is part of the neurodivergent movement, which centers the person and recognizes differently functioning brains without pathologizing them. She frequently helps people gain deeper insight into their unique personality and applies that understanding to improve communication, relationships, and life choices. Drawing on personality typology based on Carl Jung and the Myers Briggs test, she can provide links to free online tests to support self-understanding. This insight-oriented work is designed to serve clients well beyond today’s concerns, fostering growth that lasts.