Julie Fuentes , LMFT

Julie Fuentes is a bilingual Spanish-speaking Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with 12 years of clinical experience working across a range of settings. She has provided care in inpatient and outpatient programs, community mental health, foster care services, and correctional and residential youth environments, developing skills with diverse age groups and life circumstances.

She works with individuals and couples facing depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, childhood trauma, and relationship challenges, and brings extensive experience supporting people from varied cultural backgrounds including members of the LGBTQ community. As an LMFT, she focuses on how relationships and family patterns influence personal well-being and guides clients toward lasting change.

Julie emphasizes a warm, nonjudgmental therapeutic space where clients can explore difficult emotions and experiences. She believes professional support can be more effective than relying solely on family and friends at certain times, and she partners with clients to begin a healing process, build resilience, and move toward personal goals and potential.

Therapeutic Approaches and Accessible Online Care

Julie integrates Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) into her work to address relational patterns, emotional needs, and daily coping skills. Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early bonds shape present relationships and helps reduce anxiety around closeness and abandonment. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes empathy and collaboration, creating space for clients to lead sessions and discover their own solutions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and developing practical strategies to manage symptoms like anxiety and low mood.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic journey, and Julie works collaboratively with clients to determine which methods best fit their needs, goals, and preferences. She adjusts techniques over time, integrating different approaches to match each person or couple.

Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, making it easier to fit support into busy schedules or to access care from home. Licensed professionals and therapists can use these formats to maintain regular contact, practice skills between sessions, and adapt pacing to what works best for each client.