Julie VierlingLMSW, LISW

Julie Vierling is a licensed social worker practicing in Ohio with 28 years of clinical experience. She holds the LMSW credential and the LISW credential and has spent decades helping people through intense emotional challenges. Many who come to her are dealing with depression, anxiety, trauma, grief, or addiction and need steady, practical help.

Julie focuses on concrete skills people can use day to day. She talks clients through panic attacks, obsessive-compulsive patterns, and mood swings. She also supports people facing postpartum depression, seasonal shifts in mood, and process addictions such as gambling or exercise compulsion.

Her style is direct and compassionate. She listens first, then works with each person to build manageable steps forward. Sessions include tools from cognitive behavioral approaches, mindfulness, and acceptance-based work, matched to what a person needs in the moment.

Julie pays attention to how difficult emotions show up in relationships and parenting. She helps people handle codependency, domestic violence impacts, and the strain of caregiving or hospice and end-of-life concerns. Practical coping strategies and clear behavioral plans are common parts of her work.

Throughout treatment she aims to help people increase resilience and daily functioning. Clients typically leave sessions with specific skills to practice between meetings. The focus is on steady progress and real-world changes that improve daily life.

Approaches that translate well to online care

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and then choose actions that match their values. It is often useful for ongoing anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying patterns of thinking and behavior that keep problems going and replacing them with practical strategies and experiments. CBT is commonly used for panic disorder, OCD patterns, and mood symptoms. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers skills in distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness and can be helpful when emotions feel overwhelming.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and daily needs, then try methods that fit those priorities. Plans are adjusted over time based on what helps most, and homework or skill practice is used to reinforce progress between sessions.

The biography does not specify which session formats are offered, so confirm current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit appointments into a busy week, shorten check-ins when time is limited, avoid travel, and allow people to use mindfulness or behavioral tools in the contexts where they live. Licensed professionals tailor sessions to individual schedules and goals so therapy fits into everyday life.