Julie E Ebersole, LPC

Julie E Ebersole is a Virginia Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who helps people facing relationship strain, trauma, depression, and major life changes. She works with people from LGBT communities and supports caregivers navigating stress and role changes. Her approach centers on the person in front of her and on practical steps toward clearer goals.

Julie combines a person-centered attitude with practical methods. She listens without judgment and helps clients build on strengths they already have. Sessions focus on what the client wants to change, and on small, concrete steps to get there. Julie emphasizes learning together and treating the problem as separate from the person.

She draws on 17 years of counseling experience and holds a master’s degree in professional counseling plus a master’s in crisis and trauma counseling. Julie uses familiar clinical tools in accessible ways, including acceptance and commitment methods, cognitive techniques, dialectical skills, and mindfulness practices. These tools are used to reduce distress, improve coping, and strengthen communication skills.

Julie practices exclusively online from Virginia. People looking for help with caregiver stress, codependency, attachment concerns, gender dysphoria, or end-of-life and hospice related struggles will find these topics within her scope. She also works with people exploring BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture and with those managing OCD symptoms and dissociation.

For those seeking Supporting carers resources, Julie’s background includes work with caregiver issues and stress and hospice and end-of-life counseling. She aims to make therapy fit into busy lives and to help clients find clearer purpose and better day-to-day coping.

How Julie’s approaches work in online therapy

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It focuses on values and small actions that move a person toward a life they want. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers tools for regulating intense emotions, tolerating distress, and improving communication.

Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Julie will collaborate with each person to figure out which methods fit their needs and goals. She listens to preferences and adjusts techniques so sessions are useful and relevant to everyday life.

Julie practices exclusively online, so sessions are conducted virtually. Please confirm current session options before booking if you need a specific format. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time. It also makes it possible to use mindfulness exercises, in-session skills practice, and worksheets during meetings so skills can be applied between sessions.