Julianne Alston, LMSW

Julianne Alston is a Licensed Master Social Worker who helps caregivers and parents facing stress, grief, trauma, and everyday parenting challenges. She speaks plainly and approaches sessions with a calm, easy-going manner. People looking for support with self-esteem, anxiety, or life changes may find her practical style approachable.

Julianne has a clinical master’s degree in social work and six years of practice experience. Her background includes infant mental health, which focuses on strengthening relationships between parents and young children. She has worked with a wide age range including newborns, toddlers, youth, teens, adults, and older adults, and she often draws on that breadth when helping clients navigate family concerns.

Her work commonly addresses trauma and abuse, grief and loss, ADHD, stress, and parenting skills. She also supports people dealing with abandonment, adoption and foster care issues, attachment concerns, blended family challenges, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and recovery after domestic violence.

Julianne uses practical methods such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Trauma-Focused Therapy, Attachment-Based Therapy, and Internal Family Systems. In sessions she focuses on strengths, clear goals, and skills people can try between meetings to manage emotions and relationships.

She works from Michigan and conducts sessions in English. International clients are accepted. To begin, clients use the site’s Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.

How Julianne’s approaches translate to online work

Julianne often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy in her work. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety, manage stress, and build self-esteem. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at relationship patterns and helps parents and caregivers strengthen bonds with children and dependents.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. Julianne collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their needs and goals. She tailors techniques and pacing based on what the client prefers and what they want to achieve together.

Confirm the current session options before booking since formats are not listed in the profile. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when schedules are tight. It also lets people work from a quieter setting, avoid camera use if desired, or choose a simpler audio-only conversation when that suits them better. Licensed professionals and therapists adapt tools and exercises so the work stays practical and focused, even when not meeting in person.