Julie MacAdam

I work with these modalities:
Somatic Experiencing®Somatic Experiencing is a gentle, body-centered approach to resolving trauma and chronic stress. Together, we track sensations, movements, and images in the body to support the nervous system in finding more regulation and resilience. Rather than re-living trauma, we work slowly to renegotiate it—restoring a sense of safety, agency, and connection from within.
    • Approved for Beginning level personal sessions
  • Tamalpa Life/Art Process®Rooted in the pioneering work of Anna Halprin, this approach invites movement, drawing, writing, and voice into the exploration, using creative expression to explore the facets of your body and life story. This process supports insight and a deepened relationship with your inner and outer worlds.
  • Integrative Dreamwork – My approach to dreamwork combines somatic and imaginal practices to uncover the guidance within your dreams. We work relationally and symbolically, allowing the dream to unfold through conversation, drawing, and embodied exploration. This process brings unconscious material into conscious awareness and can offer integration and clarity.
  • Herbal Medicine Plants can be powerful allies on the healing path. Together, we explore your relationship to the natural world and co-create a path of support using herbs, lifestyle changes, dietary shifts and more. I draw from both Western and Eastern healing traditions, honoring your body’s innate wisdom and the unique relationship you may develop with the plants themselves.
 

“Trauma creates change you don’t choose. Healing creates change you do.” 

– Peter Levine 

Common questions

Each session is a collaborative space where we slow down and listen—together—to what is being revealed. We might begin with simple conversation, noticing how you’re arriving that day, where you feel resourced, and what you’d like to tend to. From there, we may gently track sensations in the body, swing awareness between two or more sensations, finish thwarted stress responses, explore images or memories or impulses, work with movement, or follow a dream.
Every session is attuned to your pace. You don’t need to prepare anything—just come as you are.
This work may be right for you if you’re drawn to a process that centers the body’s intelligence. If you feel like you have the insight but don’t feel the change! 
A good fit is also about feeling safe, resonate, and gently challenged in the ways that help expand growth edges. I offer a free 20-minute consultation so we can connect and see if working together feels right.
Clients often describe feeling more grounded, resourced, and connected to themselves. You may begin to notice patterns with earlier warning signs and with more clarity, holding your experience in all its variety with greater compassion and having room to stay present for what you feel. This work can help shift long-held trauma responses and their impact on the body and perception, open creative pathways, and reconnect you with your own innate inner guidance and vitality underneath it all.
I specialize at the intersection of trauma renegotiation using dreams and the creative arts process. I work with a wide range of experiences, including developmental and relational trauma, shock trauma, grief and loss, chronic stress, anxiety, body-based symptoms, and creative blocks. My approach is inclusive, respectful of what is conscious and unconscious, and deeply reverent of the unique ways we adapt and survive.
My current rate is $135/session. I offer a sliding scale spaces which prioritize, but are not limited to, BIPOC, LGBTQ+ and trans/GNC communities. I stand for making this work as accessible as possible.
If you have questions about how I determine my rates or want to talk about a sliding scale opportunity, please be in touch. 
  • intake consultation
  • titrated trauma intake
  • weekly or bi-weekly sessions
  • email contact
  • at-home practices
  • trauma renegotiation
  • nervous system psychoeducation and tools for regulation
  • dream method & dreamwork
  • creative expression prompts
  • herbal and dietary recommendations
  • lifestyle considerations
  • ways to engage in ritual
  • self-reflection questions
  • breathing, meditation and movement practices
  • referrals to a web of skilled practitioners

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