Julie Zemke, LCSW

Julie Zemke is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 15 years of professional experience supporting adults through a range of mental health and substance use concerns. She combines a direct, authentic style with compassion to help clients gain clarity, set healthy boundaries, and express their needs with greater assertiveness. Humor is part of her approach and is viewed as a practical coping skill that can help people navigate difficult moments.

Her clinical background includes work in inpatient and residential settings, jail-based services, crisis intervention, and outpatient mental health clinics. This breadth of experience informs her work with stress, anxiety, depression, self-esteem challenges, trauma and abuse, grief, addictions, bipolar disorder, and related co-morbidity. She emphasizes practical tools that support emotional regulation, relationship improvement, and overall functioning.

Zemke often integrates cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) techniques into treatment, pairing structured skills work with a client-centered focus on each person s goals and values. She is licensed to practice in Georgia, Wisconsin, Washington, Oregon, and Arizona. As an LCSW, she is trained in clinical assessment, psychotherapy, and case management for complex adult presentations.

She offers live chat, video, and phone sessions on weekends and weeknights and remains highly accessible through messaging. Julie views the first step toward help as an act of courage and aims to provide respectful guidance and practical interventions that support meaningful change.