Julie "Renee" McLendon, LMFT

Julie "Renee" McLendon is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) practicing in Montana. She brings 20 years of clinical experience to conversations about stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, career concerns, and coping with life changes. Renee aims to make the first steps toward change feel manageable and respectful. She keeps the room warm and interactive so people feel heard and understood.

Renee uses a mix of evidence-based therapeutic techniques. Sessions focus on everyday thoughts and habits, practical problem solving, and clearer ways to cope when life feels overwhelming. She adapts conversations and plans to match each person's goals rather than relying on one fixed method.

Her approach includes cognitive-style work that looks at thoughts and behaviors, alongside humanistic and relational perspectives that center personal values and connection. She also draws from psychodynamic and rational-emotive ideas when those perspectives help clarify patterns and beliefs. Treatment is paced to what the individual needs and can handle.

Renee has supported people facing trauma and emotional abuse, OCD and attention concerns, parenting and career stress, and long-term health or caregiving challenges. She treats these topics without labels and with sensitivity to each person's history and strengths.

Overall, her goal is to help people build habits and thinking that make daily life easier, and to support steady steps toward a more satisfying life.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online work

Julie "Renee" McLendon draws on several evidence-based techniques to support change. Cognitive-style work looks at unhelpful thoughts and the everyday habits that follow, helping people try new responses to stress and anxiety. Humanistic approaches emphasize the person's values and strengths, offering time to reflect on what matters and how to move toward it. She also uses psychodynamic ideas to notice repeated relationship or thinking patterns that can keep problems going.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapy process. Renee collaborates with each person to choose techniques that match their goals, history, and comfort. She will adjust the pace and mix of methods as progress unfolds, checking in regularly about what helps.

The original profile does not list specific session formats, so please confirm available options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life by removing travel time, allowing shorter check-ins when needed, and letting people join from different locations. Licensed professionals can still use the same techniques online, adapting exercises and homework so they work in day-to-day settings.