Intuitive Body-Based Counseling
Connecting the Wisdom of the Body and the Mind
Julie is not accepting new clients right now. Join the wait list for September 2025 by emailing her.
anxiety / depression / self esteem / relationships / spirituality / loneliness / trauma / sexuality / addiction /life changes / anger / heartbreak / chronic illness
Are you ready to change?
Do you feel lost, confused, stuck in the same old relationship patterns, or paralyzed by decisions? Nagged by constant health issues or just a general sense that something isn’t quite right? Maybe you even know what it is you want to change, but you can’t seem to do it?
This isn’t your grandma’s therapy.
In these private counseling sessions, we work together to move past the rational brain and explore the realm of the body, the subconscious, and the nervous system. Once we discover what obstacles are in place, the body will show us the keys to unlocking those gateways so we can open to the possibility of change.
Our bodies experience our world differently from the way our minds do. Our bodies remember differently. You know that thing where you get freaked out by something totally innocuous? Don’t trust your own gut? Keep dating the same person over and over again even as you try to do things differently? Find yourself wanting out of some pattern in your life and don’t know how to do it? That’s a thing where your nervous system is making decisions for you. Sometimes that’s because of trauma or some old experience. Sometimes it’s what your mama taught you. Sometimes it’s patriarchy, capitalism, or white supremacy.
The good news is, it doesn’t actually matter that much what it is. What matters is that we can heal. When we reconnect the wires between the mind and the body, we can work with the nervous system to make real changes in the deeper systems of the body—and that can have an effect on the deep systems of our culture and community, too.
This is a deeply personal and intuitive process of facilitating your body’s ability to show you how to heal and change. We use tools like conversation, meditation, visualization, intuition, movement, breath, energy work, and Tarot, depending on the person and what’s going on that day. I pull from therapeutic techniques like AEDP, IFS, mindfulness, narrative therapy, and some witchier tools if we’re working with the energy body. We collaborate to figure out what your body, mind, heart, and nervous system might need in that moment.
You have everything you need inside of you to heal yourself and make a change. I’m here to help you find that magic.
Influences
Somatic practice
Mindfulness Meditation
Trauma-informed
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Carl Rogers’ Person-Centered therapy
Narrative Therapy
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Accelerated Experiential-Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP)
Energy Work, Tarot, and Intuition
How It Works
I can work with you virtually from anywhere in the world or in person at The Wellness Clinic in West Edmonton. Everyone is different, but I recommend committing to at least eight weeks of weekly sessions to begin. It’s enough time to get to know each other, identify the problem/s, what might be sitting beneath the surface, and start to make some changes. For some people, that’s enough, while others want to continue. It’s up to you!
60-minute session: $130+tax CAN
90-minute session: $160+tax CAN
All prices are in CAD. Check with your insurance provider to see if they cover counsellors registered with the Association of Counselling Therapy of Alberta (ACTA).
I offer a complimentary discovery call of around 15 minutes so we can see if we’d be a good fit.
*I have limited sliding scale spots available for clients for whom cost is a barrier. Email to inquire.
About Me
I have always been a sensitive person and was diagnosed with Generalized Anxiety Disorder in my 20s. Tools like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and medication helped some, but I also found I needed something that could get past my tendency to over-intellectualize and help me tap into my body (especially after completing a Master’s degree in English Literature at McGill University), and yoga and meditation became touchstones. For over a decade, I ran a yoga studio in Vancouver, BC, and became fascinated with how the body and the mind connected. I began working with clients one-on-one on mindfulness and stress management and trained in trauma, meditation, and various forms of therapy, eventually completing a certificate in counseling from Vancouver Community College.
I got married kind of late, and I have plenty of experience with heartbreak and the ups and downs of the single life. I have two children, and many pregnancy losses between them, so I am no stranger to grief. I also wrote a book about my experiences healing from sexual trauma. I’m a feminist, which, for me, includes fighting for the rights of women, men, and all genders to be their whole and healing selves. I’m doing my best to be anti-oppressive in my work on as many levels as I can. I have a Master’s degree in Canadian literature from McGill, where I focused on writers that were engaged with questions about racism and colonization in Canadian history. You can read more about my perspective in the reading nook and/or follow me on Instagram to learn more.
I am a staff writer for Spirituality and Health Magazine and have written several books, including the Canada Book Award-winning Want: 8 Steps to Recovering Desire, Passion, and Pleasure After Sexual Assault (Mango Media), Secrets of the Eternal Moon Phase Goddesses: Meditations on Desire, Relationships, and the Art of Being Broken (SkyLight Paths), The Full Moon Yearbook: A Year of Ritual and Healing Under the Light of the Full Moon (David&Charles), Maiden, Warrior, Mother, Crone: Divine Feminine Archetypes for Modern Life (Verbena Books), and its follow-up Witch, Healer, Priestess, Outcast: Divine Feminine Archetypes for Modern Life (coming October 2025).
Some of my work is quite spiritual, gusting witchy, but I only pull that out if it feels right and you’re into it—as a friend once said about me, I’m as “woo” as you want me to be. Even within the intuitive framework, everything I offer is based on research, evidence, and/or personal experience, and I have deep respect for wherever you are in your journey at this point. For me, this work is a collaboration: you’re the expert on yourself and your life, and we work together to figure out the path that’s right for you.
Education, Etc.
Member of the Association of Counselling Therapy of Alberta (ACTA)
Certificate in Counselling from Vancouver Community College (2022)
Trauma Master Series through NICABM (2023)
EMDR Integrative Training with Linda Curran (2023)
ADHD Clinical Services Provider (ADHD-CCSP) Certification Course (2025)
Family Constellations (Level 1) with Karen Goodfellow (2024)
Healing Sexual Trauma: A Professional Training in Trauma-Informed Care. The Breathe Network, (2019).
Support Group Facilitator Training. Mood Disorders Association of BC. (2016)
Reiki Level 3 from WestCoast Reiki Center (2023)
Process-Focused Tarot with Jessica Dore (2020)
Archetypal Tarot School with Mariana Louis (2024)
Yoga and Meditation: 500 Hour Certification from Semperviva Yoga (2015)
Master’s degree in English Literature from McGill University (2008)
Mentored by energy worker Jacqui Willcocks (present)
Supervised by Karen Goodfellow (present)