Julie Ryan

Julie Ryan creates a safe, trusting space where she and the client collaboratively explore life’s challenges and work toward personal goals. Her counseling is welcoming and nonjudgmental, and she meets people where they are whether they feel overwhelmed, stuck, or burdened. She supports clients through difficult material while also emphasizing self-discovery and ongoing mental health maintenance.

She helps clients identify and shift unhelpful beliefs, learn practical skills, cultivate greater self-awareness, and process experiences that interfere with their desired well-being. Julie’s specialty areas include stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, self-esteem, depression, coping with life changes, grief, and career difficulties.

Julie is a licensed clinical social worker in Texas, holding the credential TX LCSW 62595, which indicates her state licensure to provide clinical social work services. She completed a master’s degree in social work with a clinical mental health focus at the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities and is trained in Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Trauma-Informed Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing.

Her professional experience spans nonprofit organizations, a children’s advocacy center, primary care settings, private practice, and intensive outpatient mental health treatment programs. Julie also holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of North Texas and may integrate art-informed approaches into therapy when appropriate.

She is available weekdays, Monday through Friday, from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM. Julie works from a collaborative philosophy that recognizes each person as the expert in their own life, offering an empathetic ear, a calm and steady presence, an alternative perspective, and an open mind as clients pursue their ideal life and optimal wellness.

She looks forward to speaking with prospective clients soon.