Julie Sliga (she/her)

EMDR

As an EMDR trained clinician, I'll help you process trauma and distressing experiences that may be impacting your daily life. This powerful technique uses bilateral stimulation to facilitate the reprocessing of traumatic memories, allowing clients to reduce their emotional charge and find relief. Whether you’re dealing with anxiety, compassion fatigue, or medical trauma, EMDR can be a transformative tool in your healing journey, helping you regain control and foster resilience.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

With a strong foundation in ACT, I'll guide youtoward embracing your thoughts and feelings rather than fighting against them. This approach empowers you to clarify your values and take meaningful actions aligned with those values, even in the face of anxiety or chronic illness. By fostering psychological flexibility, ACT helps you develop a sense of purpose and direction during life transitions, encouraging a more fulfilling and engaged life.

Somatic Therapy (Body Centered)

With a focus on somatic-based therapies, I'll help you reconnect with your body to address the physical manifestations of emotional distress. These approaches emphasize the mind-body connection, recognizing that unresolved trauma, anxiety, and chronic illness can create tension and disconnection. By incorporating techniques such as body awareness, breathwork, and gentle movement, we can explore and release stored emotions, and develop a sense of safety and empowerment.

Mindfulness-based

Incorporating mindfulness practices into therapy allows you to cultivate present-moment awareness and emotional regulation. My background in mindfulness helps you develop skills to manage anxiety and stress. By learning to observe your thoughts and feelings non-judgmentally, you’ll gain clarity and insight, empowering you to respond to challenges with greater ease. Mindfulness techniques can enhance your coping strategies and enrich your overall well being.

Anxiety

Anxiety can feel like living in a body that never fully exhales. Together, we’ll get curious about the fears beneath the surface, and learn to soften the patterns of hypervigilance, self-doubt, or urgency. I’ll support you in building nervous system capacity, expanding your emotional range, and finding ways to relate to anxiety with more clarity, compassion, and choice—so it doesn’t run the whole show.

Chronic Pain or Illness

Chronic pain and illness can reshape your sense of self—how you move through the world, how others see you, and how you relate to your own body. You might be grieving, adjusting, or ready to explore new ways of living with what’s here. Our work can include deep listening, mind-body awareness, and practices like Pain Reprocessing Therapy—always grounded in your pacing, your permission, and your lived experience.

Personal Growth

You don’t have to be in crisis to want more from your life. Therapy can be a place to ask bigger questions: Who am I now? What do I want to hold onto—or let go of? Whether you're navigating a transition, reimagining your identity, or simply craving more depth and self-connection, we’ll make space for reflection, curiosity, and change. There’s no perfect version of you to arrive at—just more of you to come home to.

Loss or Grief

Grief isn’t linear, logical, or something to “get over.” Whether you’re mourning a person, a relationship, a version of yourself, or the life you imagined, we’ll move gently—at the pace your grief asks of us. Together, we’ll honor what’s been lost, make space for what still aches, and begin to shape a future that includes your grief without being consumed by it.

PTSD

PTSD and Trauma can shape how you move through the world—what you expect, avoid, or feel in your body. You may feel stuck in survival mode or disconnected from yourself. We’ll work slowly, with care and consent, to rebuild safety from the inside out. Whether your trauma is acute, complex, or woven into systems you’ve had to survive, I’ll support you in reclaiming your sense of self and possibility.