At the core of her therapeutic practice, Julia is committed to building genuine relationships. She brings warmth, curiosity, and honesty to each session, showing up authentically and inviting clients to do the same. She believes that healing grows in a collaborative, affirming, nonjudgmental space where people are understood and accepted in their full complexity.
Julia offers a space where clients can heal on their own terms – whether they come in with a specific focus or simply seek a consistent, supportive space to navigate life that is fully their own.
Before becoming a therapist, Julia worked as a clinical research coordinator studying the mind-body connection and how to make mental health care more accessible and effective, especially for people at the margins of the healthcare system. She is honored to now provide care directly and to apply her research findings to her work with each client.
Julia works with individual clients as well as partners and families. Areas of expertise and focus include exploration of identity across gender and sexuality spectrums, life transitions, trauma, anxiety, depression, self-esteem, relational conflicts, neurodivergence, ADHD and autism, and related themes such as recent or self-diagnosis, unmasking, accommodation, and burn-out.
Julia approaches therapy with equal passion for its science and its art. She draws on a wide range of evidence-based approaches — including psychodynamic and narrative therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), somatic (body-based), and mindfulness modalities — but what truly brings these tools to life is the creative process of working with each client to explores what resonates, adapts strategies to fit their unique needs, and discovers the combination that feels most meaningful, effective, and healing.
Julia received her BA in Psychology and Human Rights from Barnard College of Columbia University and her MSW from the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College.