Transforming trauma through the body, dreams, and creative insight.
Somatic Therapy. Dreamwork. Expressive Arts.
do you have insight but remain stuck in patterns?
If you’ve reached an impasse in more traditional therapies, let’s connect.
You may know, it can be a challenge to talk the body out of its experience. The body has emergent sensations: sometimes pleasant, sometimes unpleasant, sometimes under the radar. It is where hurt is stored and where healing happens.
Sometimes it isn’t about figuring things out.
It is about being with, being seen, and feeling what is ready to be felt.
Afterall, changing the body alters the self.
As a somatic therapist, I collaborate with people to foster an atmosphere of spaciousness, fluidity, and ease by resolving trauma and stress while connecting with the wisdom of their bodies, dreams, and creative expression.
Based in Burlington, Vermont, I offer 1-1 virtual sessions and in-person groupwork in:
Do you struggle with…?
- Chronic stress and overwhelm
- Self-doubt and low self-worth
- Feeling disconnected from self or others
- Knowing what you want and need
- Feeling safe and secure in your own skin
- Making life choices confidently
- Helplessness and rage
- Blame and shame
- Anxiety and/or depression
- A sense of urgency
- Connecting with and navigating your body’s experience
- Expressing your emotions
- Setting and following through on your boundaries
- Unresolved traumatic memory
- Feeling stuck in repeating patterns of behavior, thought, or emotion
- Addictions
- Being overly critical of yourself or others
Hi, I'm Julie.
I am a somatic therapist and educator, trained through Tamalpa Institute and Somatic Experiencing®. I am also a dream worker, yoga teacher, and community/clinical herbalist. I use an array of healing modalities, primarily Somatic Experiencing, dreamwork, and the expressive arts to help people resolve stress and trauma and its’ physical, behavioral, and emotional manifestations.
My passion is to support people to cultivate a life of authenticity – embracing depth, spaciousness, nuance, resilience, and interconnection.
I offer spaces where other ways of knowing and being are welcomed, celebrated, and worthwhile. I provide education that supports people to feel competent in tracking and understanding their nervous system and the impact of this system on their everyday lives.
My approach acknowledges that individuals are part and parcel of multiple larger systems; it is process-oriented and body-based. I am committed to change that creates environments of safety and liberation for all beings.
Thanks to my teachers (my body being one of the greatest there is), I bring a toolbox of experience and training in nervous system physiology and education, the creative arts process and praxis, yoga and breathwork and herbalism to offer whole person care.
It would be my honor to work with you.
Julie MacAdam
MA, RSMT/E, E-RYT
start where you are, start now.
Here are some ways you can work with me:
Somatic Experiencing®
Attune to your body, deepen your awareness, expand your choices, and develop flexible responses. Renegotiate your past and grow your capacity to return to a state of authentic connection.
Dreamwork
Feel seen and understood, uplift your innate wisdom, and explore new ways of knowing. Uncover deeper truths, embrace the feelings ready to be felt, and remember your profound interconnectedness.
Expressive Arts
Creatively express your challenges, nourish your inner resources, and ignite your self-expression. Move through your troubles, uncover your potential, nurture your creativity.
To reveal unconscious material and work with what hurt can undoubtedly be challenging. It is not meant to be easy, it is meant to be worthwhile and change lives.
The gift of what’s possible:
More capacity to stay present in an embodied way with your life amidst all the ever-changing variables, challenges and joys.
A greater resilience and ability to “bounce back” after challenges.
Living authentically – in a way that is attuned and respectful of what’s real for you.
A deeper and fulfilling connection with others based on that realness, reciprocity and mutual respect.
A safer sense of exposure and vulnerability that you choose consciously.
A reworking of memory which can change your perspective.
A freedom from chronic patterns physical or emotional pain.
Increased compassion for yourself and the world.
Taking things less personally and being able to differentiate between self and other.
Feeling more open and flexible within your thoughts, behaviors, beliefs, emotions.
And so much more…
