Julie Fuentes , LMFT

Julie Fuentes is a bilingual Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) based in California with 12 years of experience in the mental health field. She has provided services across a range of settings including inpatient and outpatient programs, community mental health, foster care youth services, and correctional and residential youth populations. Julie has worked with both individuals and couples addressing depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, childhood trauma, and relationship concerns.

She brings extensive experience serving culturally diverse clients, including people from various ethnic backgrounds and members of the LGBTQ community. Julie emphasizes a compassionate, caring, and nonjudgmental therapeutic atmosphere where professional support complements the encouragement friends and family may offer. Her practice focuses on helping clients begin a healing process and building toward personal strengths and potential.

Julie integrates clinical experience with a respectful, collaborative stance, supporting clients as they navigate difficult feelings, mend relationships, and work toward meaningful change. She speaks English and Spanish and draws on her broad background to tailor care to each person's history and goals.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care

Julie Fuentes draws from several evidence-based approaches to guide online sessions. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early bonds and attachment patterns influence current relationships and emotional responses, helping clients address abandonment, trust issues, and intimacy concerns. Client-Centered Therapy centers the client's own experience - the therapist offers empathy and acceptance while supporting clients to explore their values, make decisions, and build self-esteem. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps clients identify and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can reduce symptoms of anxiety, depression, and stress and support practical coping strategies.

Selecting the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Julie works collaboratively with clients to identify goals, preferences, and needs, and she adapts methods over time to find the best fit for each person. This collaborative stance helps ensure therapy aligns with what matters most to the client.

Online therapy options - including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging - make it easier to fit care into a busy life. These formats offer flexibility in scheduling, accessibility across distances, and multiple ways to communicate, allowing licensed professionals and therapists to tailor sessions to each client's comfort and circumstances.