Julie graduated from college with a degree in Psychology at age 19. While in her Master's program, at the age of twenty, she was hired as a Drug and Alcohol Case Manager. The following year she obtained a Master's Degree in Clinical Psychology and began working as a family therapist. She studied with Salvador Minuchin and Carl Whitaker (world renowned family therapists) in her search for techniques which would really help people change. She was a family therapist for five years before experiencing, what is commonly referred to in the field as "burnout." She left therapy and became self-employed in the real estate industry. She had an extremely successful real estate career, which included positions on the Board of Directors of the 1300 member real estate association in her area. By age 29, she was ready to return to something that was more personally meaningful. Her interest in NLP and Hypnosis had continued to flourish while away from psychology on a full-time basis. By utilizing the techniques of NLP and Hypnosis, she healed and rejuvenated herself and returned to the field of psychology in 1989, at the age of 30. She was in private practice until 1997, specializing in working with cancer survivors and their recovery. She is also a certified PhotoReading instructor and loves creating a learning environment which promotes fun and students' belief in themselves.

Her hobbies include feng shui, photography (several years ago she became a certified professional photographer) and playing piano, or as she would say, learning to play piano. She loves to travel and really wants to live in a warm climate in the winter, so she can run year round!

Julie is currently based both in the U.S. and in Europe. She conducts her own trainings and trains with other institutes, in addition to Neuro-Energetics. She is currently working on her 3rd book, NLP and Health: Working with Cancer Survivors.