Finding a therapist that gets you is hard
You matter! When searching for a mental health professional, it is important to find the right fit. Let’s explore how we can effectively work together, as well as how I can best support you in achieving your therapeutic goals.
Here’s what I offer
Building a trusting relationship with another can be a vulnerable process. I welcome you as you are and validate your experience. Attentive toward the cognitive and somatic experience of my clients’ inner world, I aim to empower and create meaningful change, while collaborating to understand and support their needs and goals. With a genuine interest in others, advanced communication and active listening skills, a curious and insightful nature, and an encouraging empathic approach, I hold great value in honoring one’s stories and providing thoughtful individualized care.
Hi, I’m Julie
“You are braver than you think, more talented than you know, and capable of more than you imagine.” ― Roy T. Bennett
Life is an art; together we can discover what kind of masterpiece you want to create in order to sustain your inspiration and greater well-being.
Who I am
A skilled, patient therapist and a relatable, genuine, warm human being
Devoted to supporting your goals, intentional about getting to the heart of your needs, and ready to help you discover the best version of yourself
A person full of integrity, transparency, wonder, and endless curiosity
A seeker of knowledge and self-growth
A passionate artist and creative soul, a traveler, an ultimate frisbee enthusiast, an animal lover, and a loyal friend
Who you are
Motivated to build awareness and self-discovery
Ready to experiment, explore, and enhance well-being
Open to broaden your perspective of others and the world around you
A desire to understand dynamics, to build and nourish more satisfying relationships
While a therapist may be the expert of their role, you are the expert of your life, willing for them to facilitate and assist in your growth
Interested in “being a team” by collaborating with a therapist throughout your ongoing development and journey
My Story
I have a rule for myself that if three or more people tell me to try the same thing, then it would benefit me to do so. I believe that sometimes others see in us what we are not yet ready to see in ourselves. This theory that I have applied throughout my life has inspired me to take calculated risks while facing some debilitating fears. It has offered me a sense of identity and liberation while catapulting me into discovering my greater passions…. Evolving in my role as a therapist has been one among many.
Providing this level of care for others involves igniting a sense of wonder and consistent self-reflection to aid in my own development, while building and maintaining “happiness” has become a routine practice to keep my world a stable, flourishing, and healthy place. However, it wasn’t until a mentor suggested replacing the word “happiness” with “peace” that I could start exploring my personal relationship with happiness on a deeper level. The pressure of being happy during unhappy moments only led to suppression, depression, and a drive toward perfection. With the consideration of environmental and societal construct impacting one’s lived experience, discovering how to sustain peace and acceptance within varying emotions and situations led me to a brighter understanding of how “happiness” could ultimately manifest as a result. The support and privilege of working with mentors who’ve encouraged a deep dive into my inner world has helped me to transform my sensitivities and neurodiversity into superpowers, my traumas and grief into strengths, nurturing my voice in support of my own well-being as well as in advocacy of others.
As an expressive, sensitive, and somatically-inclined individual, the arts have also provided me an outlet, a way to discover my authentic self and feel “at home” in my body. I believe creativity is part of our human nature, embodied and portrayed in varying forms. When our creativity is suppressed, it inhibits us. Having an equally profound passion for talk therapy, I’ve been curious about expanding the collaboration of both worlds to provide awareness, healing, and growth within the therapeutic space.
These personal experiences have shaped my deep unwavering empathy, enabling me the honor of peering into the window of another’s world so they do not have to walk alone. It has contributed to my open-minded perspective and nonjudgmental approach, and desire to lead with intention. I would like to believe the ripple effect does have power, that providing care in this capacity to each of my clients can offer a safe space for enlightenment, supporting my mission in creating a pathway to meaningful change and healing.
My background & training
Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology from Antioch University
Provided personalized care for patients transitioning to end of life as a hospice volunteer at Skirball Hospice
Specialized in attentive, individualized therapeutic care for older adolescents at Family Service Agency of Burbank
Provided emotional guidance and coping techniques to individuals seeking mental health treatment as a residential technician at Camden Center
Senior co-editor, content contributor & illustrator of self-help book, More Time to Love
Whenever you are ready to connect, I am here to offer support. Call or email me today to schedule your free 15-minute consultation.
