
PSYCHOTHERAPY
Are are feeling stuck, overwhelmed, and want to deepen your connections with yourself and others? Are you wanting to find a meaningful, authentic life with integrity? Are you going through a difficult moment or a life transition? If you want to understand yourself more, and are struggling in your relationships, or want to explore why things are happening in your life, you have come to the right place.
Julia Willinger is a Los Angeles based Psychotherapist (LMFT 141685) offering individual & relationship counseling. Julia offers therapy in Los Angeles to adolescents, organizations, relationships (e.g. siblings, roommates, friends), & groups.
Julia helps build awareness, self-compassion, and work through trauma, creative blocks, relationship challenges, and life transitions. As a Los Angeles relationship therapist and anxiety therapist, she is collaborative, empathetic, shame-free, and use mind-body approaches. She is an Internal Family Systems Los Angeles based therapist, blending in depth, relational, and somatic ideologies. She creates a safe space for clients to explore underlying issues that may be causing challenges in their life. With an interest in soulful and spiritual practices, you can explore existential crisis’, meaning and purpose.
MORE ABOUT HER PRACTICE:
Julia combines her background in mindfulness, the arts, and embodiment, with trainings in mindful self-compassion, internal family systems, interpersonal neurobiology, gestalt and relational therapy, as well as depth psychology and trauma-informed approaches. For her master’s thesis, she wrote about the impact of culture, genetics, and family on the nervous system, psyche, self, and view of the world. She provides nervous system research and skills in order to contain and grow a meaningful life.
With a background in the music industry, She understands the unique challenges of working in a creative field. Having spent years studying healing modalities, such as yoga, mindfulness, meditation, and Buddhism, she take a holistic approach to counseling. She is passionate about building inner awareness in order to grow acceptance, compassion, and understanding of yourself and the world around you. She has experience in working with existential and daily anxiety, relationships, interpersonal wounds, and trauma. She uses a harm-reduction approach, psycho-education, meditations, grounding practices, and nervous system skills and tools as resources to support you. Her spiritual and creative practices influence her daily life and she extends the offerings of this practice to her clients as well. Finding your own spiritual path, reclaiming your soul, and building your identity are all included in the work she provides.
She is culturally sensitive and fights for social justice. She has a body and sex positive attitude as well is LGBTQIA+ affirming. She continues to unpack her whiteness and is committed to ending a white supremacy culture through trainings, readings, and self-awareness in order to attend to those with different backgrounds than herself.
JULIA”S CERTIFICATIONS, TRAINING, + EDUCATION
PSYCHOTHERAPY
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Buddhism Yearlong Program InsightLA
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IFS Level 1 IFS Institute
Psychedelic Support Training on Ketamine: Therapeutic Applications, Clinical Research, & Neural Mechanisms Psychedelic Support
IFS-Informed Coaching Peer Development Groups Brian Jaudon
Rachel Ricketts Spiritual Activism Webinar Trainings
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EFT Externship 2022
Advanced Gestalt Training (The Relational Center), Present
Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness Monthly Meetings (David Treleaven)
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IFS Coaching for Self-Leadership 2021
Pacifica Graduate Institute Masters in Counseling with Depth Psychology Emphasis 2021
Relational Center Gestalt + Advanced Gestalt Training 2019-2021
Brainspotting Phase 1 Certification 2021
ACT for beginners 2021 (Training)
DBT skills 2021 (Training)
Wisdom 2.0 2021 (Seminar)
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Unpacking Whiteness Group + Training at The Relational Center 2020
Ally Bogard Meditation Training 2020 (10 Hour)
Embodied Yoga Summit and Embodied Social Justice Conference 2020-2021
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute Webinar and The Relational Nature of Shame: A Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Perspective 2020
Dan Siegel PEPP MWE Gathering 2020
MINDFULNESS + MEDITATION
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Loving Awareness Commuter Retreat at Spirit Rock (2019)
Solstice Insight Meditation Retreat at Spirit Rock (2019)
Interpersonal Neurobiology (IPNB): Timeless Wisdom, Timely Action (LLI, 2019)
The Art & Science of Living With Presence & Connection (Lifespan Learning Institute, 2019)
Trauma Sensitive Training (The Relational Center, 2019)
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Karme Choling Weekthün 7-day retreat with Ethan Nichtern (2018)
Mindfulness & Self-Compassion (MSC) 5-Day Intensive with Kristin Neff, PhD (2018)
Herbalism course (Love is Juniper, 2018)
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Weeklong Yoga Deep Retreat Trainings with Heather Lilleston (2016 & 2017)
200-hour Meditation Teacher Training (The Interdependence Project, 2017)
Adult Yoga Teacher RYT200 (Yoga Shanti, 2017)
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Kids Yoga Teacher RCYT95 (Bent on Learning, 2016)
Certificate in Sustainable Happiness (Nalanda Institute, 2016)