I’m so glad you’re here!

While I have extensive training in psychology, Somatic experiencing, ancestral medicine, Expressive Arts and Integrative Movement Therapies, what I find most valuable and impactful in my service to others is my own lived experience. I am able to blend my real-life history and perspective with extensive research in neurobiology, psychology, and physiology to help others make sense of their own experiences by understanding trauma and its impact on our mind, body and our daily lives. My approach is holistic, utilizing the body and mind to understand our symptoms not as pathology, but as a normal response to difficult, life threatening or overwhelming experiences.

It is because of my own unique experiences with trauma that I can show up authentically and support my clients on their healing journey. I am the embodiment of the work that I teach and the guidance that I provide. 


Through my own personal experiences with the cycle of trauma, from sexual abuse in my early childhood and into my adolescence, which created cycles of depression, anxiety, eating disorders and chronic illness to adopting unhealthy and harmful coping mechanisms, and to later being involved in toxic and abusive relationships, I learned firsthand that we are our own best healers. We just need the proper tools and healing environment!

My extensive professional experience comes from working in domestic violence shelters and rape-crisis centers throughout New York City and Los Angeles, working with at-risk teenage girls and disadvantaged youth in Inner City schools, as well as, eating disorder clinics in Los Angeles. In addition to my private practice where I offer 1:1 sessions as well as Immersion Programs, I also dedicate my time to Exhale to Inhale, a non-profit organization that empowers survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault using the healing and grounding practice of yoga, where I serve as the Lead Trauma-Informed Yoga Teacher Trainer and Director of Curriculum Development & Mentorship.

By listening to, and befriending my own body, I’ve been able to transform through my own life experiences. After living most of my life completely dissociated, I am now fully present. Before my mind used to scream in resistance to what my body wanted or needed and now the internal conflict is gone. I’m present, comfortable, embodied, happy, strong and powerful. I finally feel like I have a place in this world, and my feet belong on this Earth. I now have a voice that needs to speak, whereas before I was afraid to be heard and even seen.

You deserve a life of freedom, ease and peace too!

Hi, I’m Julie Fernandez

Partnerships

Exhale To Inhale

Director of Curriculum and Mentorship, Lead Trauma-Informed Teacher Trainer

  • 2014-present

  • Develop, update and refine Exhale to Inhale training manual and curriculum for client, staff and public classes

  • Lead Trauma-Informed Yoga Teacher Trainings and Workshops

  • Provide support and mentorship to Trainers, Wellness Instructors and Training Graduates

Hope Integrative Psychiatry

Trauma Recovery Specialist

  • 2015-present

  • Primary trauma therapist on a multi-modal clinical team