Welcome
Julia is a licensed Psychotherapist who specializes in working with adults navigating anxiety, burnout, chronic stress, relationship challenges, and physical symptoms including autoimmune conditions.
Trained in Internal Family Systems (IFS) by founder Dr. Richard Schwartz, she integrates a trauma-informed, relational approach with a Polyvagal lens that emphasizes safety, nervous system healing, and sustainable change.
In Julia’s work, she has found that healing happens through steadiness, pacing, clarity, and a nervous system that feels safe enough to reorganize. She brings warmth and attunement to the relationship, along with professional discernment and structure, so clients can return to resilience, capacity, and authentic self-trust.
About
In addition to her clinical training, Julia brings over a decade of experience in high-demand Fortune 500 environments, where she studied the cumulative toll of sustained pressure across professional and personal domains. This understanding informs a recovery protocol designed to help individuals heal their nervous system and build resilience within the responsibilities and ambitions of their daily life.
Her work today integrates this lived understanding with trauma-informed, relational psychotherapy, allowing her to meet clients with both compassion and discernment.
If something here resonates with you, click the link below to schedule a complimentary consultation call — a chance to connect and see if it feels like a good fit.
Clients often reach out when life looks “fine” on the outside, but internally something feels off — less resilience, more effort, more reactivity, more exhaustion. Others reach out in the midst of a rupture: burnout, relationship challenges, a health shift, or an emotional unraveling that no longer responds to willpower or coping strategies.
Therapy becomes a space to slow down just enough to hear what your system has been signaling, and to create conditions where emotion can be met without overwhelm or shutdown. Therapy requires warmth, attunement, and respect for what the body and emotions are carrying. It also requires structure, patience, timing, and containment. Julia’s role is to hold both.
Using IFS as her core modality, Julia helps clients understand the internal systems that drive them — the parts that push, protect, perform, or manage — and what those parts are actually trying to accomplish. Together, you build the kind of internal safety and compassion that makes change sustainable.
Licensed Psychotherapist, LMHC, LCPC
New York University - M.A. of Psychology
George Washington University - B.A. of Business Administration
Internal Family Systems (IFS) Training led by Dr. Richard Schwartz, founder of IFS
The Sacred Nervous System: A Relational Pathway for Self and IFS
Internal Critics & Challenging Protectors Through the Lens of IFS with Chris Burris
IFS-Informed led by Dr. Richard Schwartz
Clinical Training
Emotion-Focused Therapy - GETME Gestalt/Experiential Therapy of Maine
IFIO - Cambridge Health Alliance
IFS Therapy for Groups- Cambridge Health Alliance
Holistic Health & Nutrition Certified - Institute of Integrative Nutrition
CBT - Beck Institute of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy led by Judith Beck
Curiosity
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Contact me via the calendar link or form to schedule a free phone consultation. This call is an opportunity for me to understand the type of support you need and for you to get a better sense if you would like to work with me.
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Individual therapy is $250 per 50-minute session. Longer sessions are available when clinically appropriate.
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I’m an out-of-network (OON) provider. I can provide you with a monthly superbill for you to submit to your insurance company, but I do not bill insurance directly.
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Call the number on the back of your insurance card and ask the following 4 questions:
Does my plan include “out-of-network” coverage for mental health?
What is my annual deductible for mental health benefits?
What is my co-insurance? (What percentage does the plan cover?)
Is there a limit on the number of sessions my plan will cover per year?
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Sessions are scheduled for a weekly or bi-monthly basis.
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The length of therapy can vary depending on each person's unique needs and goals. Some clients may feel significant shifts in just a few sessions, while others may choose to engage in therapy over a longer period. Ultimately, the process is tailored to you, ensuring that we move at a pace that feels sustainable for your growth.
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The Internal Family Systems (IFS) model of psychotherapy offers a clear, non-pathologizing, and empowering method of understanding human problems, as well as an innovative and enriching philosophy of practice. IFS has become my preferred therapeutic model because it reaches depth, and change, quickly, but gently, and the positive effects endure over time.
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Life can feel complicated. Patterns repeat, you get stuck, or you hold yourself back. Sometimes you just want more ease and clarity.
Therapy gives you space to look at yourself with curiosity, uncover blind spots, and make sense of your experiences and relationships.
And if you’re not sure what to expect — that’s completely normal.
Therapy
Online or over the phone, we meet for about an hour.
Meetings are weekly or bi-monthly. Scheduling is flexible.
Documentation for out-of-network insurance benefits can be provided.
Let’s Connect.
Schedule a consultation call using the calendar link or use the form below and Julia will be in touch shortly.
Resources
Here are a few podcasts that explain therapy in clear and accessible ways. Feel free to check them out if you’d like to learn more.
Community members are welcome to submit their suggestions – send via email.
The Rich Roll Podcast with Dr. Richard Schwartz
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The Multiplicity of the Mind: A Systems Approach to Healing
Feel Better, Live More with Dr. Richard Schwartz
Dr. Rangan Chatterjee: Internal Family Systems
DEAR GABBY with Dr. Richard Schwartz
The Therapy That Changed My Life — Internal Family Systems
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