Let's Walk This Path Together
Hey you, i am julia. I'm an Internal Family Systems (IFS)-informed therapist, somatic practitioner, and yoga teacher.
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I support you to move from stress, overwhelm, and self-doubt toward greater ease, self-trust, authenticity, and inner peace. You deserve to truly enjoy and fall in love with your life again, rather than just surviving.
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This work is deeply personal to me because I found it through my own healing journey and experienced firsthand how profoundly it can change your life.
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For many years, I was dealing with anxiety, people-pleasing, perfectionism, and eventually burnout. I also spent years battling an eating disorder and a difficult relationship with my body. On the outside, life looked fine, but inside I was exhausted from constantly trying to be enough, do enough, and keep going no matter how I felt.
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Yoga was the first thing that truly helped me. It helped me reconnect with my body and begin healing my relationship with food, movement, and myself. But the deeper patterns underneath my struggles remained.
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It was during my burnout recovery that I discovered Internal Family Systems (IFS) and somatic therapy. Through this work, I began to understand the fears, beliefs, and protective patterns beneath my anxiety and self-criticism. For the first time, I realized that these parts of me weren't broken — they were trying to protect me.
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Through IFS and somatic work, I found something I had been searching for for years: a sense of safety within myself. Not because life became perfect, but because I no longer felt like I had to fight myself every day.
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Experiencing that transformation inspired me to support others on their own journey.
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Today, I work with people who long to feel calmer, lighter, and more at home within themselves. People who are tired of living in survival mode and ready for more rest, joy, connection, and freedom.
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If that resonates with you, please know that you don't have to figure it all out alone. Together, we can gently explore the patterns that keep you stuck, soften the burdens you've been carrying, and create more space for the life that's waiting underneath them.
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Let’s explore your path towards more peace, freedom, and a deeper sense of being yourself, online or in person at my practice in the beautiful Friesland countryside, in Nijland.
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As an IFS Professional, I’m affiliated with IFS Nederland and listed on IFS Professionals.
IFS & Somatic Therapy in Nijland, Friesland
​​I offer Internal Family Systems (IFS) and somatic therapy sessions online and in-person in Nijland, Friesland, near Sneek.
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We explore emotions, stress, protective patterns and what is happening in your body, with the aim of creating more inner calm and self-understanding.
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Sessions are available in person at my pratice (Hottingawei 18 in Nijland) or online, in Dutch, English or German.
my approach:
IFS and Somatic
Therapy
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
IFS helps us understand the different parts within you.
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Examples include:
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the perfectionist
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the inner critic
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the people pleaser
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the anxious part
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the part that always wants to stay in control
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These parts often developed to protect you, even if their strategies are no longer serving you today.
somatich therapy
Your body holds experiences, emotions and patterns of stress.
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Through greater body awareness, you can learn to:
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recognize signals earlier
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regulate stress and tension
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feel more grounded
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reconnect with your needs
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develop greater self-trust
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Sometimes the mind understands, but the body still holds on — because we can’t always think our way out of what we feel.​
Therapy That Goes Beyond Talking - Insight alone is often not enough for lasting change.
Many forms of therapy focus primarily on thoughts and the intellectual mind.
That is why my work with IFS and somatic therapy focuses on the connection between mind, body and emotions.
