Julie (she/her) is the founder of Omaha Integrative Care (OIC), Nebraska’s first integrative healthcare practice, and co-founder of Dignity in Healing Collective (DHC), a nonprofit building and supporting the behavioral health workforce. She opened OIC in 2011 because the model of care she believed in didn’t exist in Omaha. She has led the practice ever since, bringing together conventional medicine, mental health care, and mind-body approaches under one roof.
Dignity is at the center of Julie’s work. She believes it belongs in how people are cared for, in how clinicians are trained and supported, and in how organizations treat the people inside them. She leads OIC and DHC through collective leadership and teal principles. In her view, you can’t deliver humane care from inside a structure that isn’t humane.
Julie has practiced psychotherapy for more than 25 years. Her clinical focus is trauma, including medical trauma, women’s health, and the stress carried by high-functioning professionals. Her foundation is psychodynamic, and includes somatic therapy, Internal Family Systems, Integrative Somatic Parts Work, and mindfulness-based approaches. She also offers leadership coaching and facilitation, informed by her training in Organization and Relationship Systems Coaching (ORSC™) and Collective Leadership.
Julie earned her BA and Master of Social Work from Boston College and holds the Diplomate in Clinical Social Work. She began her career at child guidance centers in Massachusetts and Connecticut, including work with the Yale Child Study Center’s Child Development-Community Policing Program. She graduated from Duke’s inaugural Leadership in Integrative Healthcare program. Her interest in mind-body medicine started when she heard Jon Kabat-Zinn speak in Boston, and she later trained with Dr. Herbert Benson at the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine.