You've built an impressive life.
Now let's make it actually feel good.
Therapy with Julie
You can launch a business or step into a high-pressure role, but one tense conversation with your partner sends your whole nervous system into overdrive. You can manage complex decisions all day, but still lie awake at 2:00 a.m. replaying what you said, what they meant, and whether you handled it wrong. You’re the one everyone calls in a crisis, and the one wondering if you’re failing at the things that actually matter.
WHEN YOUR PROFESSIONAL LIFE THRIVES BUT YOUR PERSONAL LIFE STRUGGLES
Maybe you can walk into a room full of senior leaders and know exactly what to do, but one short text from your mother makes your chest tighten. Maybe you can handle criticism at work but unravel when someone you love seems disappointed in you, not because you’re weak, but because your nervous system learned a long time ago that disappointment could threaten connection. That’s not a character flaw. That’s a learned relational response, and it’s been running the show ever since.
Maybe you’re the person everyone leans on, the one who answers the late-night call and rearranges your day when someone needs you. And maybe the cost of being that person is that you have no idea how to ask for help when you are the one who needs it.
These aren’t signs of failure. They’re signs that the strategies that got you here, the hypervigilance, the over-functioning, the relentless drive, are running out of fuel. Your system is trying to tell you something.
Sound familiar?
A mind that won't quiet
Racing thoughts, 3 AM planning, the inability to be present with the ones you love. The mind that helps you perform is also making it difficult to rest.
A body that won't stop signaling
Jaw tension, disrupted sleep, stomach issues. Exercise and time away that do not touch whatever is underneath. Your body has been trying to get your attention for years.
Emotions that ambush
Fine for weeks, then a small trigger detonates something enormous. Rage at your partner over dishes because the real thing is much harder to say. You clean it up afterward, ashamed.
Relationships that strain
Managing complex projects is easier than having a vulnerable conversation. The closer someone gets, the more you pull away. Intimacy brings up the very defenses that once protected you.
A pace that never slows
Rest feels like falling behind. Even your downtime has a to-do list. You're not sure you remember how to not be productive.
A success that doesn't satisfy
Reach the milestone, feel nothing. Or relief. Then immediately move on to the next thing. The goalpost keeps shifting because what sits underneath it is still there.
Healing From The Inside Out
I understand these patterns because I’ve lived them, from using achievement to numb difficult emotions and prove my worth, to learning how to feel more grounded and secure within myself. I specialize in therapy for ambitious people because I know what it costs to build an impressive life on an unhealed foundation, and I know what becomes possible when you finally address it..
Healing From The Inside Out
This Work Is Often a Fit For
Entrepreneurs and Founders
Executives and Leaders
High-Performing Professionals
Creatives, Athletes, and Performers
Physicians, Lawyers, and Professionals in Residency or Advanced Training
Those Balancing Ambition, Relationships, and Family Life
WHAT BECOMES POSSIBLE
Heal your nervous system
Address the hypervigilance at its source so your child’s behavior doesn't trigger fight-or-flight. So you can be in the room without scanning for exits.
Feel genuinely safe in your body
Those tension headaches, restless sleep, and jaw tension, they resolve when your nervous system gets the message that safety isn't dependent on perfect performance.
Move through life from strength, not survival
Make decisions based on what you want, not what will keep everyone comfortable. Ambition feels different when it is no longer driven by proving or protection.
Transform your closest relationships
Stop taking responsibility for everyone’s emotions. Say what you need. Let someone care for you without feeling exposed or indebted.
Actually enjoy what you've built
Be present for dinner with friends, a slow weekend, or an ordinary morning at home. The life you worked hard to create should feel like somewhere you get to live.
Feel solid from the inside out
Not performing stability. Actually feeling it. The difference between those two things is everything, and it's what this work is designed to create.
A clinician who goes where talk therapy alone can't reach.
My Approach
1. Identify the Pattern
We focus on the reaction, relationship pattern, or emotional response that continues to feel difficult, even when you understand it intellectually.
2. Work where the pattern was formed
Using EMDR and Somatic Experiencing®, we work with the brain, body, and nervous system at the level where the response was formed.
3. Change Begins to Happen
As the pattern shifts, the pressure to force change isn’t there.
You have more choice in how you respond, relate, and move through your life.
EMDR Therapy
EMDR can help address emotional reactions, relationship patterns, and experiences from the past that still feel present.
SPECIALITES
Somatic Therapy
Somatic therapy works with the body and nervous system through Somatic Experiencing® to help create change beyond insight alone.
TRUSTED ~ PROVEN ~ TRANSFORMATIONAL
TRUSTED ~ PROVEN ~ TRANSFORMATIONAL
CLINICAL TRAINING
Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner
Completed three years of advanced training in Somatic Experiencing®, including extensive consultation and supervised practice.
THE TRAINING BEHIND THE WORK
EMDR
More than seven years of experience using EMDR with high-performing professionals, leaders, and clients navigating deeply rooted patterns.
EDUCATION
Texas A&M University, Bachelor of Arts in Speech Communication
Master of Arts in Professional Counseling, Amberton University
Texas Licensed Professional Counselor, License #72463
Practicing since 2013
More than 15,000 Clinical Hours
NEUROSCIENCE TRAINING
Completed advanced coursework and professional training in neuroscience, subconscious patterning, and the ways the brain, body, and nervous system shape behavior and change.
THE CREDENTIAL I AM MOST PROUD OF
I am most proud of is the work I have done on myself.
I have invested years, significant time, and substantial resources working with highly skilled therapists, somatic practitioners, coaches, and mentors. I believe practitioners can only take clients as far as they are willing to go themselves.
I think of this work a little like climbing a mountain with an experienced guide.
You are the one making the climb, but you do not have to find the route alone. I know the terrain. I can recognize the patterns, places of protection, and internal obstacles that are difficult to see when you are inside them.
Book A Session
90-minute Therapy Session
Investment | $500
Therapy services are provided through The Counseling Collective LLC and are available in person in Fort Worth or virtually across Texas.
NEXT STEPS
Book A Video Consultation
20-minute Complimentary Video Consultation
A brief conversation to help determine whether working together feels like the right next step.
Have a question before booking?
Email Julie at:
julie@thecounselingcollectivefw.com