Julie Floyd, M.A., LMHC
Julie is a Senior Clinician with Village Counseling Center. She has been in the mental health field for over 20 years and specializes in managing a broad range of mental health needs as a licensed mental health counselor. Julie has extensive experience with treating complex trauma in children and adults, dissociation, attachment disorders and attachment trauma, grief, pre-and-post adoption concerns, addiction, obsessive compulsive disorder, anxiety and depression. Julie works with children (ages 3+), adolescents, adults and families. The services she provides include mental health assessments, individual therapy, family counseling, expert testimony on childhood trauma, therapeutic visitation with reunification and integrative parenting (specifically in treating attachment trauma in children). Julie has been a trained EMDR therapist since 2012, her skillset also includes training in advanced EMDR techniques and providing EMDR in clients with dissociation. Julie is also trained in Trauma Play (Flexible Sequential Play Therapy), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Trauma Focused CBT and ERP (Exposure and Response Prevention) to treat OCD and anxiety.
Julie’s therapeutic approach emphasizes the development of a strong therapeutic alliance, careful attention to each client’s unique history and presenting concerns, and treatment interventions that are responsible to the individual. She draws from a variety of therapeutic approaches and tailors’ treatment to each client’s specific needs, experiences and goals. Her focus is on helping clients develop greater insight, build effective coping and grounding strategies, process difficult experiences and move toward meaningful and lasting health and personal growth.