Julia Pham

I work collaboratively to create a supportive space where you can explore your inner world and come to understand yourself more deeply. Many of the people I work with have had repeated experiences of feeling unseen or misunderstood, without the kind of deep listening and attunement that allows their authentic self to be clearly expressed and received. Therapy can become a place where that begins to happen. Over time, you may begin to experience yourself differently and engage in personal discovery that opens up a greater sense of possibility in how you live your life and what feels meaningful to you.

I have a special interest in supporting LGBTQIA+/queer, neurodivergent folks, and people in nontraditional relationship structures. I work with adults, adolescents, and children and provide gender-affirming care for transgender and gender-diverse clients, as well as support for women and non-binary people navigating the physical and emotional transitions of perimenopause and menopause. I also support clients navigating major life changes, relationship challenges, and questions about meaning and direction in life.

I am currently completing a graduate certificate program at Pacifica Graduate Institute. I value ongoing learning and approach therapy as a space where identity, personality, and neurology can be explored with curiosity rather than judgment, and where differences are understood as meaningful parts of a person’s experience.

My approach to therapy is relational and depth-oriented. I’m interested in helping clients explore patterns that shape how they experience themselves and others. I meet clients where they are and how they show up in the present moment. However you arrive is welcome.

I also incorporate somatic awareness and creative exploration when it feels helpful. For some people, imagination, drawing, movement, or other forms of expression can offer ways of accessing parts of their experience that may be difficult to put into spoken language.

I approach my work with an understanding that personal struggles are shaped not only by individual experience, but also by broader social and cultural contexts. I work from an affirming, non-pathologizing perspective and support clients in relating to themselves with more clarity and moving through their lives in ways that feel more aligned.

We will begin with whatever feels most important for you to share about what has brought you to therapy. You don’t need to have everything figured out or know exactly what to say.

While I will gather some background information, I do not approach the first session as a formal intake where you are expected to go through your full history or revisit difficult experiences before you are ready. I trust that your past experiences will emerge over time, when you are ready to share what feels meaningful for me to understand.

As we talk, I may ask some questions to get a sense of your current experiences and what you are hoping for from therapy. We move at a pace that feels workable for you.

This first session is also a chance to get a sense of what it feels like to be in the space together. You are welcome to ask questions or say if something doesn’t feel right. You will get a sense of whether this feels like a place you want to return to.