Julie Tallard Johnson, LCSW

Julie Tallard Johnson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with a Masters in Social Work and 33 years of experience helping people navigate stress, trauma, relationship struggles, grief, addiction, mood disorders, and many life transitions. She emphasizes a relational foundation in therapy, believing that a dependable, skillful, and compassionate therapeutic relationship is the core driver of meaningful change. From that base she integrates narrative work - helping people examine the stories and assumptions that shape their lives - and somatic approaches that attend to the body as an essential part of emotional experience and healing.

Her method is collaborative and client-led. Julie frames clients as the captain of their own journey while she acts as a navigator, offering a range of evidence-informed strategies and tools that support insight, immediate coping, and long-term growth. Clinically she draws on a broad toolkit that includes Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT), Gottman Method, Mindfulness Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Narrative Therapy, Psychodynamic Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, Somatic Therapy, Trauma-Focused Therapy, and Internal Family Systems. She also incorporates somatic experiencing, breath, and awareness practices to deepen personal insight and regulation.

Julie has authored several books focused on healing from trauma, cognitive-behavioral tools for wellbeing, and living a fulfilling life. Her practice frequently addresses concerns such as anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, ADHD, compassion fatigue, parenting and family dynamics, intimacy and relationship issues, grief, sleep problems, career-related stress, and coping with chronic illness or caregiving responsibilities. She works with a wide range of life challenges including abandonment, attachment wounds, codependency, domestic violence recovery, substance use concerns, and the emotional effects of major life transitions.

Julie brings decades of training and ongoing professional development to each therapeutic relationship and values curiosity, authenticity, and practical strategies that clients can use between sessions. As a Licensed Clinical Social Worker - LCSW - she combines clinical skill with a strengths-based, client-centered stance aimed at helping people move toward greater resilience and meaningful change.