About Julia, MA RCC
Julia Allen, Registered Clinical Counsellor
With thirty-five years of experience in the counselling field, Julia brings a wealth of wisdom and a nurturing approach to guide you towards healing and personal growth. She has developed expertise in numerous areas including eating disorders, anxiety, trauma, addictions (including technology), parenting, chronic pain, psychedelic integration, and grief and loss. She works with children, youth, adults and families.
In addition to holding a Masters in Counseling Psychology from Yorkville University and a Bachelor’s of Science in Human Nutrition and Dietetics, Julia also possesses certificates in Inter-professional Mental Health and Addictions (IMHA) and Adult and Community Education (CACE), all of which support an integrative approach for her clients.
Eating Disorders: Julia’s unique background in nutrition and dietetics, combined with her counseling psychology expertise, allows her to offer a comprehensive approach to addressing eating disorders. Julia is adept at considering the complex interplay of psychological, emotional, and physical factors, and empowers clients to achieve lasting recovery and a positive relationship with food and their bodies. When necessary, Julia works closely with family members to ensure the environmental context and relational dynamics are attended to in order to assure higher levels of support and greater potential for change.
Julia’s counselling style is trauma-informed and draws from various modalities including Internal Family Systems (IFS), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Jungian analysis, client-centred humanistic therapy, somatic psychology, and dream analysis and integration.She also integrates mindfulness practices into her sessions, recognizing their profound impact on overall well-being and personal growth. Julia is committed to leading clients towards greater feelings of joy, gratitude, and an awe-inspiring experience of life by addressing trauma and other obstacles to inner growth.
For those seeking to delve deeper into their life’s purpose, Julia supports clients in connecting with their inner spiritual guidance to discover their Soul’s direction and path. Julia believes we each have a depth of wisdom from which to draw upon, to develop trust in, and to listen to as a way to inform our daily lives and the choices we make. Through a practice she developed herself, called Soul Catching, Julia uses environmental orientation and nature relatedness to access deeper parts of the Self.
Julia believes we each have a depth of wisdom from which to draw upon, to develop trust in, and to listen to as a way to inform our daily lives and the choices we make.
Her guiding core value is:
“To heal one person is to heal the world.”
Approach: Julia’s approaches include trauma informed therapy, Internal Family Systems (IFS), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), psychedelic integration, chronic pain therapy, Jungian analysis, client-centred humanistic therapy, somatic psychology, and dream analysis and integration.
Specializations: Eating Disorders, Technology Addiction, Parenting Challenges, Women’s Issues, Trauma Resolution, Depression, Anxiety, Existential Suffering, Altered States, Psychedelic Integration, Nature-Relatedness, and Mindfulness.
Populations: Children, Youth, Adults, Elders, and End of Life Clients.
Previous Experience: Julia has worked in community and not-for-profit organizations, a chronic pain clinic, detox and addiction rehab centres, hospital setting nutritional counselling, and in schools as a counsellor for children, teens and parents.
Beyond the Work: Julia loves to gather with friends and celebrate earth honouring ceremonies, with good food, laughter and idea sharing. She has written two books based on psycho-spiritual material, with her most recent book found on Amazon under her nom de plume, Julia Star. She spends lots of time wrestling words into meaning, reading books and writing articles for her blog, Julia Star’s blog site, which is well-read with followers from all over the globe. Her other interests include gardening in her organic healing plant and vegetable garden, cooking plant-based meals, drawing, yoga, dancing, and spending quality time with her husband Bill.