JJ Julian

I am a white, queer, non-binary artist, abolitionist and therapist. I go by JJ (they/them). I believe deeply in healing and transformation, and my practice as a therapist is one way I use my own healing journey to inform and create space for others to explore theirs. I come from the farmlands of the midwest (colonized Erie, Kickapoo, Shawnee, Lenape (Delaware), Miami, Ottawa, Seneca and Wyandot land) with European roots back to Ireland, Scotland, England, Germany, Switzerland and France. All of my lineages, communities and identities are important to me as I bring my whole self to the therapeutic relationship, centering liberation, decolonization, healing, justice and imagination/creativity. I pay attention to practices rooted in Indigenous wisdom, including my own Irish pagan lineage, as well as other community-based practices like: healing justice, transformative justice, disability justice, gender justice, racial justice, somatics and mindfulness, body-autonomy, harm reduction and neuroqueering. My learning in life and community along with my learning in school and professional settings play vital roles in my practice.