about julia

Julia Wittich

Julia Wittich is a certified Rosen Method Bodywork practitioner, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, Rosen Movement teacher, Rosen Method Bodywork Workshop teacher and Conscious Uncoupling Coach. Her background is in Art Therapy, Fine Art Photography, mothering, and hospice care. She received her BA in Women Studies and Photography from SUNY @ Purchase, and worked in NYC as a fine arts and commercial photographer. She combined these skills to create photo-therapy sessions for women, exploring issues of body image. Similarly to Rosen, this work was about helping people to walk in the world owning themselves.

Julia discovered The Rosen Method quite by accident, and it spoke deeply to her. She spent 10 years training at Rosen Center East, and The Open Center, while raising her two young children. She used the philosophy of heart centered presence and acceptance to stay open as she nursed both her mother and sister through premature illness and death. Julia has a tremendous capacity for joy, and acceptance of sorrow and pain.

She has been practicing since 1997 and specializes in supporting clients in the midst of significant life and career changes. Her subtle sensitivity and awareness of anxiety and trauma held within the body makes her especially suitable for clients with transgressed boundary and body issues. She loves working with people who have a strong need to remember or discover who they are after having lost track of themselves to the high demands and responsibilities of life.

She completed Peter Levine's 3 year Somatic Experiencing Trauma training in 2017 and continues to take many workshops on trauma thru NICABM.

offerings

bodywork

movement

workshops

solo retreat

  • Julia is all about love, taking you in and accepting however and whoever you are. Her presence, touch and words come from her heart and allows me to feel seen, heard, and understood. She skillfully makes the space for me to open to myself and go to deep places within me that have been hidden or unexpressed. When that happens, I experience an inner calm and confidence that "all is well" despite sometimes difficult circumstances and emotions.

  • "This work has affected my life greatly. I have always been interested in somatic healing...but being interested and having a skilled facilitator to "get you there" are 2 different things. I don't think I would have been able to connect so deeply with myself and by body without the guidance of Julia."

  • "Rosen sessions with Julia always leave me feeling safe and secure with my feelings, my body, and myself in the context of both my personal life and in the world as it is."

  • "The Bodywork is emotional yet transformative. The Rosen Movement classes are joyful and refreshing."

  • "Rosen work with Julia helps me in a way that I cannot do for myself. Wellness needs community --another person who understands that mind and body are inseparable, and who acknowledges the role of emotions in wellness."

  • "Fortunately, I’ve had a wonderful, traditional talk therapist for most of my adult life, and I couldn’t have managed without her. But when I began working with Julia, I found I could express and release very painful emotions because I was safely held, both emotionally and physically. And that has made a tremendous difference."