- Stress and anxiety
- Grief and loss
- Attachment issues
About Julie
Julie "Renee" McLendon is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) practicing in Montana with 20 years of experience. She sees adults dealing with stress, anxiety, grief, trauma and abuse, career struggles, and life changes. Julie also works with people who are navigating adoption and foster care issues, attachment concerns, and caregiving stress.
Her approach is interactive and straightforward. Sessions involve talking through current problems, identifying patterns that come from early family relationships, and trying practical ways to change unhelpful routines. She uses ideas drawn from cognitive-behavioral, humanistic, psychodynamic, and rational-emotive approaches to guide conversations and homework when helpful.
Julie frames progress as steady work rather than quick fixes. She helps clients notice how family roles and expectations still shape choices today, and she focuses on usable skills for managing anxiety, grief, and major life transitions. Conversations often include exploring beliefs, practicing new ways of responding, and checking what works in daily life.
She can support people coping with chronic illness, body image concerns, neurodiversity issues such as autism and Asperger syndrome, and complex relationship patterns like codependency or blended family stress. Julie also offers help around abandonment, attachment difficulties, and the emotional effects of caregiving.
Sessions are conducted in English and Julie accepts international clients. If someone wants to begin, they are asked to use the platform matching steps to pick a session and schedule a first meeting.
How evidence-based approaches translate to online work
Julie draws on cognitive-behavioral ideas to identify unhelpful thoughts and test different responses. CBT-style exercises can help with anxiety, stress, and grief by breaking problems into smaller, manageable steps.She also uses humanistic and psychodynamic-informed listening to look at patterns that began in early family life. That work focuses on noticing repeated roles and expectations and seeing how they affect choices today, which can be useful for attachment and abandonment concerns.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Julie will work with each person to decide which techniques fit their goals and comfort level. That means trying things, reviewing what helps, and adjusting the plan together rather than using a single fixed method.
The practical benefit of online sessions is fitting therapy into everyday life. Online work can reduce travel time and make it easier to keep regular appointments around work or caregiving. Because the therapist's session formats were not specified in the biography, confirm which online options are offered before booking. Licensed professionals commonly tailor session length and pacing to match a client's schedule and needs.
Areas of expertise
Primary focus
Additional focus areas
Experience
20+ years
Listed in
Montana, Oregon
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What concerns does she help with related to family patterns?
She works with adults who notice family-of-origin roles and expectations still affecting their decisions and relationships. This includes attachment issues, abandonment concerns, and blended family stress.
How would you describe her therapy style?
Sessions are interactive and conversational. She uses a mix of cognitive-behavioral, humanistic, psychodynamic, and rational-emotive ideas to guide the work.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 20 years of experience working in clinical practice with adults on a wide range of concerns.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She is an LMFT - licensed marriage and family therapist - based in Montana.
Does she offer sessions in other languages?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside the U.S. work with her?
International clients are accepted.
How are sessions scheduled and what about formats?
Session formats were not specified in the biography; please confirm current session options before booking through the platform's scheduling flow.
How does payment work and what does it cost?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
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