Julie Knight, LPCC, LPC

Julie Knight is a California counselor with LPCC and LPC credentials, bringing 30 years of experience in the mental health field. Her background includes work on inpatient psychiatric units, participation in crisis response programs, and many years providing both individual and family therapy. The LPCC and LPC are state counseling licenses that reflect her professional training and clinical practice.

Her therapeutic style is person-centered, strengths-based, and goal-oriented. She works with people facing crises, grieving losses, navigating life transitions, or seeking greater well-being and self-confidence. Julie emphasizes practical skills and insight so that therapeutic gains can be applied across life situations rather than only addressing immediate problems.

Julie has a particular commitment to serving LGBTQ individuals and their families. She supports people through coming-out processes, helps improve family relationships, and assists clients in building healthy confidence and self-esteem within social contexts that can sometimes be unsupportive. She also works with family members who want to learn ways of offering genuine, loving support.

Another focus of her practice is Highly Sensitive People and introverts. Julie recognizes that sensitivity and introversion are often misunderstood in cultures that prize extroversion and toughness. Rather than pathologizing these traits, she helps people understand and honor their temperament, develop clearer communication about needs, and build confidence that draws on their creativity, empathy, and insight. She frequently recommends resources such as Elaine Aron’s work and the Highly Sensitive Person self test as starting points for further exploration.

Julie also works with neurodivergent clients and aligns with the neurodivergent movement’s emphasis on understanding differing brain function without unnecessary pathologizing. She uses personality typology based on Jungian ideas and Myers-Briggs style assessments to help clients gain deeper self-understanding and improve communication, relationships, and life decisions over the long term.

Her clinical approach draws from a wide range of evidence-informed methods, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Internal Family Systems (IFS), psychodynamic and Jungian approaches, mindfulness-based work, solution-focused techniques, trauma-focused therapy, attachment-based methods, and existential therapy. She addresses a variety of concerns such as stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and family issues, trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy and parenting challenges, career transitions, ADHD, bipolar disorder, and compassion fatigue among others.