Julie Vence

Accomplished Licensed Professional Counselor with valuable experience in leadership, clinic management, and psychotherapy. Passionate about providing mental health services to children, adolescents, athletes, and families with social, emotional, and behavioral disorders. Positive, vibrant team member with a commitment to excellence.

Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) #04821

• Let's Grow, Girls!
• Courage Club
• Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Skills Training
• Art It Out!
• A Game Plan for Life (Mental Performance Group)

Telemental Health Training Certificate (THTC)

 Certified in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (C-DBT) 

Crisis Prevention Institute Training (CPI)

Nonviolent Crisis Intervention Training (16 hrs)

New Directions: Social Learning Curriculum 

Trauma Informed Care: Neurobiological & Psychological Effects of Trauma 

Sensory Approach to Trauma-Informed Care 

Equine-Assisted Activities and Therapy (EAAT)

Graduate Research

• Early Childhood Development: An Investigation of Learning and Social-Emotional Development: The University of Alabama: Advised by Dr. Cailin Kerch.
• The Education Policy Center: The University of Alabama

Undergraduate Research

• Learning and Memory Laboratory: Mississippi State University: Advised by Gary Bradshaw, Ph.D. Assisted in the investigation of study strategies and cognitive processes that underlie effective learning, and the types of inferences people make and how they make them. Responsibilities included assisting with data collection, data entry using SPSS, data analysis, scheduling, properly running participant sessions, and filing consent forms properly.
• Making Sense of Us: A Child and Research Clinic, Mississippi State University: Advised by Cliff McKinney, Ph.D., director of Making Sense of Us: A Child and Family Research Clinic at Mississippi State University. Conducted research investigating child, adolescent, and family functioning as well as parenting and disruptive behavior. Responsibilities included assisting graduate students with manuscript writing, conference preparation, and article research. Responsibilities included assisting with data collection, data entry using SPSS, data analysis, scheduling, properly running participant sessions and filing consent forms properly.

Athletic Tutor, Bill Battle Academic Center, The University of Alabama

Teaching Assistant, Introductory Psychological Statistics, PSY 3104, Mississippi State University

Biological Statistics Tutor, Introductory Psychological Statistics, Mississippi State University

• Paulk, R., Vence, J., (2018, November). Police Officer Interactions with Mentally Ill Individuals. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Alabama Counseling Association, Birmingham, AL.
• Kwan, J. W., Vence, J., & McKinney C. (2016, March). Coping Responses Predicting Emerging Adult Psychological Problems. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association, New Orleans, LA.
• Stearns, M., Byars, M., Martin, J., Vence, J., & McKinney, C. (2016, May). Parental and Personal Religiosity in Emerging Adults: Moderation by Gender and Parental Warmth and Overprotection. Poster presented at Association for Psychological Science Annual Convention, Chicago, IL.