Julie Parsons, LCSW-C | Greenbelt, MD 20770

Julie Parsons, LCSW-C

Psychotherapist

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Listening, Understanding, Healing

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Julie Parsons, LCSW-C helps people feel better. She brings warmth and wisdom to the process of change, employing her significant experience in the treatment of eating disorders, depression and anxiety.

Julie is a clinical social worker, fully licensed to provide a full range of psychotherapy. She maintains a private practice, working with a wide range of people experiencing a variety of concerns. Before going into private practice she was a therapist and eating disorders specialist at the University of Maryland,College Park Health Center for 17 years. For the 6 years preceding her work at UMD, she provided therapy for clients of the Prince George's County Department of Family Services, and the Pathways Schools in Silver Spring, Maryand. She has helped thousands of young people and their families in individual, family and group therapy. Julie approaches her clients with a sense of awe at their unique journey. She believes that a different therapy must be constructed for each client because each has a unique story.

Julie’s influence at the University extended to numerous campus-wide programs, including the Eating Disorders Outreach Program, of which she was the Director. In this program Julie taught students in recovery how to speak to students in campus groups, classes and residence halls. These presentations reached those who were struggling with an eating disorder who may not otherwise have come in for help. She is a skilled presenter and researcher on the topics of eating disorders and relationships.

What others have said about Julie Parsons:

~ "Julie is able to listen, teach, understand and guide others. She has taught me to take a negative experience in life and use it in a positive way."

~ "Julie is a talented and committed healer who focuses on the complexly intertwined - social, psychological, emotional, physical, and spiritual - issues for students in relation to body image, food and eating issues, and self-esteem."

~ "Julie’s expertise also includes mood disorders, anxiety disorders, and relationship problems including sexual assault and violence."

~ "Julie inspires her clients to be strong, grounded, and to claim their competence and confidence."

~ "Julie sustains and nurtures our students who are depleted from diseases like anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating syndrome."

~ "Julie saves lives, restores functioning, and inspires students to believe in themselves. She honors and cherishes who they are and what they can be."

~ "Julie helps us realize what is uniquely precious and important about ourselves."

~ "If you get a chance to work with Julie, take it! Your life will be forever enhanced."