Village Wellness Therapy
Come home to your body.
Freedom beyond recovery.
Therapy for Eating disorders and Disordered eating
to support integration and food freedom.
About Julia
Therapist and Founder at Village Wellness
Hi, I’m Julia,
I’m a Registered Clinical Counsellor, endlessly passionate about the possibilities in creating a world lived from the heart.
My work is a true weaving of the practical and the subtle. My professional training and education have always revolved around possibility, alchemy, and the quiet miracles that unfold in healing, likely long before I consciously knew that to be true. I studied psychology alongside an anthropological perspective on religious studies, with a focus on various mystical traditions. I hold a Master’s in Counselling Psychology and have training in yoga and meditation facilitation.
From a young age, I’ve felt at home moving between worlds. That quality helps me connect with and understand many different human experiences. My approach to healing and change is creative, compassionate, relational, and intuitive. In my therapeutic work, I draw from several modalities, including Existential Psychotherapy, Depth Psychology, Emotion-Focused Therapy, mindfulness, and ongoing training in energetic and nonverbal healing and communication practices.
My understanding of eating disorders is both personal and professional. For many years, I was at war with my body in nearly every way. The process of finding my own way forward to a truly peaceful relationship with my body and myself has shaped how I work with others, allowing me to see beyond textbooks and labels, and to help people return to a sense of home within themselves. All of my work is shaped as much by my studies as by every life experience that has brought me to deep and transformative places; experiences that continually expand my capacity to see, hold, and be in awe of the people I have the privilege to work with.
I’ve worked with adults and teens navigating eating disorders and disordered eating, suicidality, anxiety, depression, self-harm, grief, major life transitions, relationship challenges, and more, within the full spectrum of what life brings. My hope is always to support the people I work with in cultivating a more peaceful and sovereign relationship with themselves: one rooted in trust, choice, and the quiet intelligence of nature. I believe healing is less about fixing and more about remembering our innate wisdom and belonging within the living world.
When I am not working, I’m most likely in the kitchen, outdoors with my Livestock Guardian Dog, Saša, or trying (often unsuccessfully) to learn how to use an unfamiliar piece of farming equipment.
Who I Work With
You may have tried various forms of support or therapy to heal your relationship to food and your body but something has still felt to be missing. You no longer engage in the unhealthy behaviours around food that you used to, but you still find that harsh voice beating you up in the back of your head.
Perhaps you have followed the protocols and restored your physical health, but still secretly hate your body and feel uncomfortable in your day-to-day life.
You might see similar patterns to those of your eating disorder now showing up in other areas of life: needing to feel in control, numbing out, or distracting to avoid painful or uncomfortable emotions.
You feel tied to a meal plan and a more mechanical way of eating, but long to feel the safety and peace in your body to be able to hear its cues and eat more freely without fearing relapse.
You may have gone through inpatient treatment programs, and while the eating disorder has eased, you feel the impact of such an intense treatment protocol and controlled environment, and can’t seem to feel like yourself again, even years after.
Perhaps you’ve tried hospital or community-based treatments for your eating disorder and felt that something was missing or never felt seen or safe enough to really trust that recovery could be for you.
You have always felt different, maybe questioned if something was wrong with you. You seemed to feel things more deeply than others, be more impacted by events or emotions than your peers.
If any of this resonates, know that you are not alone. Recovery is less about returning to who you were before, rather, remembering a level of peace and safety in your body, woven with an integration of all you have experienced.
True freedom from disordered eating is possible, a way of living that feels settled, alive, and entirely your own.
About Village Wellness
At Village Wellness, we believe care should be both intelligent and deeply human. We support mind, body, and soul as one interconnected, living system. Our bodies are not machines to be managed; they are part of nature itself.
We’re here for women seeking grounded, evidence-informed care that honours their biology, intuition, and autonomy. No quick fixes, no numbing: just real, relational support that helps you reconnect with your body’s own intelligence.
Because true wellness restores sovereignty: the quiet knowing that you are free to change your circumstances, your story, your life.
Once, care was woven into the rhythm of the village; shared, trusted, alive. Village Wellness exists to remember that way of being: where health and belonging meet, and where modern care finds its old, human heart.
Contact Us
You are welcome to reach out with any questions, wonderings, or thoughts about our offerings or what working together could look like. We look forward to hearing from you.