Julie Barzal , LICSW, LISW

Julie Barzal is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker in Massachusetts and a Licensed Independent Social Worker with a supervisory designation in Ohio, holding the credentials LICSW and LISW. With seven years of clinical experience, she works with adolescents and adults across a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, depression, anger, low self-esteem, grief, trauma and abuse, addictions, relationship and family challenges, LGBT issues, parenting and caregiving stresses, and intimacy-related and career-related difficulties. Julie integrates evidence-based methods such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy, and the Gottman Method alongside strengths-based and solution-focused techniques to tailor treatment to each person’s needs.

She has experience diagnosing DSMV mental health disorders, providing direct counseling and telehealth therapy, and offering crisis and case management services. Her practice emphasizes empathy, active listening, cultural humility, and a client-centered, strengths-based stance that meets people where they are. Julie approaches therapy as a collaborative process that aims to be challenging, insightful, and empowering, and she brings advocacy and a tireless work ethic to each therapeutic relationship.

Her personal life informs her perspective - she is left-handed yet ambidextrous, became a mother as a teenager, and pursued higher education later in life, earning both a bachelor’s and a master’s degree after age 40. These experiences reinforce her belief that meaningful change can occur at any stage of life.