Julie Barzal, LICSW, LISW

Julie Barzal is a licensed social worker who brings seven years of clinical experience supporting adolescents and adults through a wide range of life challenges. She holds a Massachusetts LICSW - a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker - and an Ohio LISW with a supervisory designation, credentials that reflect advanced training and the ability to provide independent clinical care and clinical supervision. Julie’s practice emphasizes evidence-informed methods such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, Emotionally-Focused approaches, and the Gottman Method, and she tailors techniques to each person’s needs rather than relying on a single model.

Julie works with concerns including stress, anxiety, depression, anger, low self-esteem, compassion fatigue, addictions, relationship and family issues, trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy challenges, parenting and career transitions, ADHD, and a variety of medical and caregiving stressors. She also supports people facing blended family dynamics, body image struggles, codependency, and other overlapping concerns. In practice she offers assessment, counseling, telehealth therapy, crisis and case management, and diagnostic clarity when needed.

Known for a strengths-based, client-centered approach, Julie emphasizes empathy, active listening, cultural humility, and gender and identity inclusion. She aims to meet each person where they are, balancing challenge with support so therapeutic work feels both meaningful and practical. On a personal note, Julie is ambidextrous, became a mother as a teenager, and returned to higher education at age 40 to earn her bachelor’s and master’s degrees, experiences she says inform her commitment to lifelong growth and advocacy.