Dr. Julie Griffin

She earned a doctorate in psychology and completed graduate studies that covered clinical and counseling psychology. Julie has worked across settings including schools, hospitals, group homes, prisons, and community mental health, and she has experience in substance abuse programs and parenting classes.

Julie focuses on making the therapeutic space calm and nonjudgmental. She uses a strength-based stance and adapts techniques to each person's needs.

Sessions emphasize practical steps people can use between meetings to manage stress and mood. Her background includes work with trauma, addiction, and a wide range of mood and behavioral concerns.

She has experience supporting people facing grief, relationship struggles, parenting stress, ADHD, and eating or sleep difficulties. She has also worked with issues connected to attachment, adoption and foster care, and body image.

Julie draws on several well-known approaches to guide sessions, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, along with relationship-focused methods such as the Gottman Method and attachment-based ideas. She blends these tools into an individualized plan that fits each person’s goals.

Outside of clinical work she enjoys arts and crafts and animals, and she has used therapy animals in practice. She aims to create an open environment where people feel heard and can work toward steady, practical change.