Julie is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist that has been practicing in mental health since 2014. In addition to providing outpatient therapy, she is a 200-hour yoga teacher and reiki attuned. Originally from a suburb of Chicago, Julie moved to Iowa to obtain her B.A. in Psychology from the University of Iowa. She returned to school to obtain her Master’s Degree from Mount Mercy in Marriage and Family Therapy. She has specialized training in trauma-informed yoga, Trauma-Focused CBT and IoWA-PCIT (Integration of Working Models of Attachment into Parent Child Interaction Therapy). Julie was trained to be a trainer in IoWA-PCIT by creator and founder Dr. Beth Troutman at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine.
In 2023 she completed training to become a certified psychedelic-assisted therapy provider, and currently offers Ketamine-Assisted Therapy as another modality for healing. She loves taking a whole-body approach to help heal her clients. Julie currently provides outpatient mental health services for adults, teens, couples and families.
When making the decision to move into private practice, it felt incredibly important to Julie to take a holistic approach, incorporating the mind, body and spirit of each person. She loves to sit and listen to her clients, offering the opportunity to give genuine observations that can offer new perspectives and ways to think. Julie uses psycho-education to help gain understanding of how the mind and body work, alongside developing coping tools to support self-regulation and improve distress tolerance. She enjoys working with clients to treat the person, not just the identified problems. Her focus is to treat each person as an individual and honor their story and unique needs for healing.
