I am a Registered Social Worker located in Ontario, Canada, currently offering counselling, psychotherapy and consulting. I work from a relational lens, recognizing the importance of being in 'right relationship' with our whole, creative selves, each other and the greater world. I enjoy working with a variety of needs, but have indepth skills and experience with complex trauma. I work from a neurodivergent (gifted/2e) and gender affirming place of practice.
I am also a Certified Child Life Specialist with experience in community healthcare psychosocial support, and I work to incorporate human development knowledge and skills into my work with adults from an interconnected, relational/cultural and family-centred approach.
I am currently working towards a PhD in Human Relationships, Spiritual Care and Psychotherapy through Wilfrid Laurier/Martin Luther University with research interest in relationality and embodied ethics in program development, training, regulation and practice within helping professions.
My perspective for therapy is to encourage rediscovery of the creative and authentic self that is inside all of us, and to offer support and guidance through wholisitc body-mind-soul integrative process. I aim to walk with you through your process into a place that honours your challenges your experiences and supports movement into a more balanced space. I also work with clients who are on the path of personal growth, and who are motivated to follow this path of discovery towards healing and living well.
I work from a very relational perspective, seeing the value of the therapeutic relationship as a foundation to stand on while building autonomy, and acknowledges we live in relationship with everyone and everything around us, including the natural world. This work involves seeing where we’ve fallen out of balance in these relationship, and works to restore that balance as the path towards thriving for all. I incorporate many of the modalities of practice into my everyday life as my own embodiment of the values in practice is of continuous importance to me.
· Relational, Attachment and Betrayal Trauma
· Birth and Reproductive Trauma
· Nervous System Regulation
· Anxiety
· Depression
· Grief/Anticipatory Grief
· Coping with Medical Diagnosis
· Caregiver Stress
· Medical Trauma
· 'Therapy for therapists' and other helping professionals
· Gifted/2e neurodiversity
(including High/Exeptional/Profoundly Gifted)
· Highly Sensitive Persons
· Existential Questions
· Identity Searching
· Spirituality
· Exploitation and abuse of power, ie abuse by mentors, leaders,spiritual leaders, teachers, therapists, organizations or systems etc.*
*Taking a relational/cultural/social model perspective, I recognize that a lot of distress we experience can stem from oppression from individuals in power and/or whole systems we exist in. The Art of Heart Approach looks at this with compassion and acknowledges distress as ‘normal reactions to abnormal situations’.
My practice is situated in Halton Hills, Ontario, on the traditional and treaty lands of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation, within the wider territories of the Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee, and Huron Wendat peoples. This land has long been shaped by relationships of care, responsibility, and stewardship.
I offer this acknowledgment as an ongoing practice of situating myself in relationship to place, rather than as a fixed or complete statement.
As a settler of Celtic ancestry, my life and work are shaped by complex histories of movement, displacement, and survival — both those carried by my ancestors and those imposed through colonization. I recognize that my ability to live and practice on this land is inseparable from systems that have caused and continue to cause harm, and that acknowledgment alone does not address this reality.
My understanding of land and relationship has been shaped through living in different communities across Ontario, visiting other parts of Canada, and spending time as a visitor in places beyond these borders. This includes time spent growing up exploring the lakes and forests of Ontario, walking the Bruce Trail system with my family and learning land conservation through the work of my dad, working and living with land currently cared for by Three Rivers YMCA Camping and Outdoor Education programs, and in and around Dominical and San Isidro, Costa Rica, volunteering on an organic farm. Many of my work and travels offered a lived experience of land as reciprocal relationship — one shaped by labour, care, climate, and community. I also hold an ongoing relationship with Vancouver Island, where time spent as a visitor on the lands and waters of the Coast Salish peoples has deepened my understanding of land as teacher, witness, and relation.
In all of these places, I remain a visitor. I carry these experiences not as claims, but as responsibilities — informing how I approach healing, work, and relationship with humility and care.
This acknowledgment reflects a commitment to respecting Indigenous sovereignty and knowledge, and to continuing the work of learning how to live and practice in better relation — to land, to people, and to the histories that shape us.At Julie Robertson MSW, RSW Counseling Services, we provide compassionate and effective counseling services to help individuals and couples overcome life's challenges. Our team of experienced counselors is dedicated to helping you achieve your goals and live a fulfilling life. We offer a variety of services, including individual counseling, couples counseling, and family therapy. We believe that everyone deserves to live a happy and healthy life, and we are here to help you achieve that.
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