Julia Caruso, LICSW

Julia Caruso is an LICSW licensed in Massachusetts with four years of clinical experience. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma and issues with self-esteem. Julia describes attachment-related concerns, relationship difficulty, and codependency among the things she helps people address.

Julia favors a direct but empathic support style in sessions. She blends approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Attachment-Based methods, and elements of Jungian therapy. In practical terms she talks through patterns, helps people notice what matters to them, and builds small, usable skills for managing strong emotions and impulsive urges.

She usually schedules 45 minute sessions to allow time for discussion and problem solving. New clients are asked to begin with a video session so the first meeting can establish rapport and plan next steps. Julia states she responds to messages within about 24 hours and does not work on weekends to maintain professional boundaries.

Outside of clinical work she is a musician, artist, animal and outdoor enthusiast, and a gamer. She sometimes connects creative interests and fantasy play to inner experience as a way to make therapy relatable and personally meaningful.

Julia supports people who want to understand their attachment patterns, reduce people-pleasing or codependent habits, and develop clearer boundaries. She helps people practice communication skills, manage mood symptoms, and work through trauma-related reactions in practical, skill-based sessions.

How her therapeutic approaches translate to online sessions