Julie Keen, LCSW, received her Masters of Social Work from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2003 and her licensure in 2007. She has worked in a variety of settings including sexual abuse hotlines, hospice, public schools, courts, hospitals, emergency rooms, psychiatric hospitals, prisons, client’s homes, social services, private practice, Henrico County Community Services Board (CSB) and Hanover County CSB. In 2003, she joined the League of Therapists in Charlottesville, Virginia, a "wraparound" agency that provided family and individual therapy to families in need of complex services. The League of Therapists was dedicated to the intensive training of family structural therapy via videotape supervision of their clinicians. Her teacher, Steve Greenstein, PhD, was a national leader in educating therapists and trained with Salvador Minuchin, MD (the founder of structural family therapy). Julie served as the Director of Harrisonburg League of Therapists in 2007 and moved to the Richmond area in December of 2009 to open the Richmond Area League of Therapists. Julie’s training in structural family therapy spans seven years of intensive work and study. The summer of 2010 she began working as an Emergency Mental Health Clinician at Henrico Area Mental Health and Developmental Services and continued her work at Hanover County CSB in 2017 as an emergency mental health clinician. Julie works with a wide array of individuals who are in acute crises and may have serious mental illnesses. This may include people with substance abuse disorders, co-occuring disorders, psychotic disorders and intellectual disabilities. As part of her work she regularly collaborates with a team of emergency services clinicians, police, deputies, paramedics, magistrates, schools, hospital emergency room staff, inpatient psychiatric staff, private psychiatrists, regional community service boards, nursing home staff, child and adult protective services, and families in crisis. In addition to her work as an emergency services clinician at Hanover County CSB, Julie completes assessments for Same Day Access (SDA) a statewide program in Virginia where a person in need of mental health treatment can access services in a timely manner to help prevent emergencies and hospital admissions. Julie has specialized in writing hardship evaluations for private clients or clients of immigration law firms for the last seven years. She has extensive knowledge in the field of immigration law and has completed over a hundred hardship evaluations for consular processing, UVisas, Removal, and Asylum cases. Julie is a certified clinical supervisor in the state of Virginia in addition to being certified in Neuro-Linguistic Programming and Hypnotism by the NBCCH of the American Hypnosis Academy. She has received specialized training working with sexual abuse, autism disorders, immigrant populations, disaster response, trauma, and mindfulness meditation. Julie uses a variety of treatment modalities including structural family therapy, group psychotherapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, psychodynamic therapy, art therapy, play therapy, attachment therapy, neuro-linguistic programming, V-K dissociation, and eye movement integration. In addition, she has supervised clinicians treating people of all ages with a wide array of challenges. Some of these include addressing issues with parenting, blended families, foster care, domestic violence, grief and loss, health problems, truancy, delinquency, academic underachievement, severe poverty, acculturation difficulties, discrimination, substance abuse, teen pregnancy, sexual, physical and emotional abuse. Julie's special interests include women's issues, trauma, depression, anxiety, and working with the Latino population. Julie studied art at the University of Valencia in 1992 and was awarded an internship at the United States Embassy in Madrid, Spain in 1994. Julie received her undergraduate degree in Spanish from James Madison University, with a minor in Studio Art and is fluent in Spanish. In her spare time she enjoys painting, drawing, writing, gardening, and spending time with her husband, daughter and two dogs.
