I’m Julie.

trauma educator. psychiatric nurse practitioner. queer writer. reclaimer of worth.

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“The morning I looked in the mirror and saw Me looking back.”

My Approach

Collaborative

Healing and learning happen in community. The work of reclamation isn’t about one voice or one story. It honors lived experience, listens deeply, and makes space for each person to reclaim what has always been theirs: worth, agency, and belonging. Healing is relational, and transformation unfolds when we walk together.

Ongoing

Trauma recovery is not linear, and neither is reclaiming worth. Growth requires circling back, refining, and adapting along the way. An ongoing process ensures healing remains sustainable, safe, and responsive to the needs of those engaged in it.

Embodied

This work is grounded in both knowledge and lived experience. It helps people move out of survival mode and into presence, agency, and self-trust. Embodiment means healing isn’t just something you think about—it’s something you live. It’s about coming home to the body as a place of wisdom, safety, and belonging.

What I bring…

Clinical & Academic

15 years of experience bridging community health, pediatric care for life-limiting illness, and psychiatric care across the lifespan — now equipping future psychiatric nurse practitioners with a trauma-informed approach to care.
Lived Experience

Living with complex trauma and actively reclaiming the birthright to voice, authenticity, and space — while holding up a mirror to the inherent worth of others.
Community & Vision

Equipping those who have been othered to reclaim identity, voice, and worth; teaching educators, advocates, and faith leaders how to offer tangible support; and pressing for systemic change by teaching trauma-informed approaches to medical and psychiatric care.

Reclamation Circles

Community-based groups for those living with complex trauma, navigating religious deconstruction, or reclaiming identity, voice, and worth. Circles offer safety, agency, and belonging in the healing process.

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Reclamation In Practice

Allies &Advocates as Scaffolding

Workshops for educators, faith leaders, families, and advocates who walk alongside people living with complex trauma, religious disorientation, or identity-based oppression. Together we explore nervous system literacy and trauma-informed practices, learning how to be scaffolding — tangible support that empowers without rescuing.

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Clinical & Academic Training

Trauma-informed education for professionals in medicine and mental health. These trainings equip practitioners with nervous system literacy and practical tools to reduce harm, deepen attunement, and foster care that affirms identity, agency, and worth.

For Professionals

Projects Taking the Scenic Route

A memoir of wholeness and belonging in a later-in-life closet exit, the devastation of rejection, the reckoning of complex trauma, and the long, winding, rough road to reclamation of Self — and all the Sacred scattered along the way.

Coming soon…

Coming Out Saved My Life

COSML

A curriculum for those at the frontlines of care. Training for behavioral health associates, nurses, and therapists in residential and inpatient programs, offering trauma-informed approaches that reduce harm and support healing.