Julie Puttgen Expressive and Somatic Therapies

I come to my work as a therapist from backgrounds as an artist, hospital oncology chaplain, art professor and activist, meditation teacher, lover of movement, backpacker Dharma bum, essayist, companion of rescue pups, and former Buddhist nun. I've been around the block, tried many things, succeeded and failed, and carried my heart through many of this world's wild, beautiful, boring, terrible, sacred spaces. All of which feels relevant to working with clients who dare to trust their creative and intuitive processes as they come into fierce, tender, inalienable wholeness.

I offer Expressive Arts Therapy and embodied dreamwork, inviting strengths and insights that may lie outside clients' everyday perceptions. I also draw on Somatic Experiencing, a trauma-resilience modality that works with present-moment experience of the body. I offer meditation/ mindfulness practices for self-regulation and resourcing.

If you are looking for an ally to help you navigate the suffering and stresses of life, from a place of grounded respect and curiosity, I would be honored to hear from you. Working with students as they navigate times of radical growth and transformation is a true joy in my practice.

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While I am not in-network with the Dartmouth Student Health Plan, I do bill that plan directly, and students only pay a $35 copay each session.