COUNSELING WITH ME
Julia Bailey Stephenson, MS, LPC, NCC
My strengths as a counselor include my ability to be authentic, share warmth, cultivate wisdom, and build connection. My therapeutic lens is person centered, existential, and behavioral; I can speak with insight and clarity to your essential questions about who you have been, who you are, and what you should do.
I seek to partner with you in a process of discovery and productive therapeutic work. I find that sometimes the most important counseling goals emerge as sessions get underway and trust and rapport are built. These most important goals may be surprising and even liberating. Counseling with me is often a challenging yet enjoyable process of exploration, discovery, and meaning making. My hope and intention is to help facilitate a counseling process that meets your needs for change, support, guidance, self-awareness, growth, and/or healing. Whatever needs, desires, and goals you may bring or uncover, my highest pleasure and privilege will be to become part of your journey, just as you will become part of mine.
HELPFUL INFORMATION
In person and telemental health services for adults and adolescents
Flexible hours Monday-Thursday by appointment only
Located in Mathiston, Mississippi (just a 15-20 minute drive from Starkville)
Serving Starkville and the golden triangle, Webster County and surrounding areas
*ph: 662-273-3488 (text preferred initially)
*email: julia@everyseasoncounseling.org
*website: everyseasoncounseling.org
Also, *CONTACT ME* directly
at the bottom of the site
SPECIFICS OF PRACTICE
You are the authority on what we focus on in session. However, you do not have the pressure of being in charge. My job is to be a sensitive and skilled facilitator of your process, to help create a container for the work you need to do. If you do not know what you need to say or discuss, I am comfortable with that. In fact, that is when some of our best work may happen. In those times, it's my job to lead the way, but with sensitivity, intuition, and always with your permission and approval. My practice is well suited to address issues related to anxiety, grief and loss, grief crisis, OCD, depression, OCPD, bipolar disorder, mothering, perinatal mood disorders, parenting, relationships with adult children, boundary setting and communication, toxic relationships and verbal abuse, recovery from destructive relationships and intimate partner violence, life transitions, aging, meaning making in the face of the inevitable realities of life, matters of faith and spirituality, aging, career path and life change, personal growth, the need for guidance and support, recovery from addiction and traumatic experiences.
In order to help you do the work you need to do, I study and incorporate principles and techniques from a variety of modalities including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Cognitive Behavior Therapy. I can also incorporate faith based counseling when appropriate as well as spiritual practices and traditions. I often include the practice of mindfulness and self-compassion. Some effective activities and interventions include guided imagery, art and drawing, sand tray, work books, and a myriad of prompts such as sentence completions, picture cards, digital pictures and art.
FEES AND BILLING
I accept Blue Cross Blue Shield, United Health Care, Cigna, and Ambetter, as well as other carriers. More information is available upon request. Rates range from 85-189. I will discuss financial concerns and try to negotiate with you to accommodate your needs if possible. Please contact me with questions about fees, insurance, and billing from the bottom of this website or text the number listed.
A Counselor's Blessing
May we concern ourselves with what we can control~response, attitude, words, consumption, time spent...
May we focus on that which clears, inspires, and empowers.
May we practice mindfulness.
May we live at a sustainable pace.
May we claim space~to feel, daydream, fail, think, contemplate, doubt, to not know, know, speak, keep silence, be...
May we meet reality with a spirit of partnership that produces hope, good, and blessing for ourselves, others, the world.
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