Ms Julie Levin

Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist

“Is your inner critic relentless, driving you on a never ending quest to prove your worth? This part of you may seem like a bully, but it’s really a scared little kid. My superpower is teaching people how to listen to the fear, soothe it, and let self compassion lead them to true happiness.”

About Me

I am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in Pleasant Hill, California. I coach you on career issues, personal development, codependency, self-care, and self-esteem. I give clear steps and practical tools to help you meet goals and build healthier habits.

Approach

I listen deeply to learn how you take care of yourself, how you speak to yourself, and how you communicate with others. Then I can reflect to you areas where you might be able to treat yourself with more compassion and times when you might be able to communicate your needs and boundaries more effectively.

As I do this, you will begin to notice the worries that come up as you imagine changing. For example, you might worry that you’ll never get anything done if you’re not hard on yourself. Or, you might worry that people will disappear or retaliate if you set firm boundaries.

This is an opportunity for deeper healing. You will learn how to respond to your worries with compassion, understanding, validation, support, and kindness. As you do, your sense of self-trust will build. When you become a source of love and safety for yourself, your dependency on support or love from others becomes less urgent. You feel more independent, freer to be your full self, to have your needs and limits, and to be a normal, imperfect human.

Contact Julie

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Basic Information

Pleasant Hill, United States

Services

I help people who feel like they have to be perfect and please others at their own expense develop a sense of confidence and calm. Together, we will work to discover how you came to these beliefs about yourself and create strategies to shift them, so that you know your worth to be intrinsic and inherent - not earned. A huge part of this process is learning a kind of self compassion and self-nurturing that creates a deep sense of inner security. With that in place, you may find you feel less dependent on others for approval, admiration, or appreciation. That will leave you more and more comfortable in your own skin.

I work collaboratively, acting as therapist, mentor, teacher and coach, depending on your needs in the moment. I’m trained in Hypnotherapy, EMDR, and Somatic (body oriented) therapies, so I can offer a wide variety of options as you learn what tools work best for you. I’m also a therapist that talks and teaches. I won’t just sit there ask, “how does that make you feel?

I work by phone or secure video chat. This means you don’t have to deal with traffic or parking. Plus, you can do therapy in your PJs.