Julie Brams, M.A., LMFT

Individual and relationship Therapist

sherman oaks, California

Julie Brams, M.A., LMFT is an Earth-centered psychotherapist, ANFT certified Forest Therapy Guide, meditation practitioner/teacher and author of The Nature Embedded Mind: How the Way We Think Can Heal Our Planet and Ourselves (CollectiveInk | Simon & Schuster).

Her psychotherapy practice integrates traditional therapy, Earth-centered practices, meditation and the latest advances in the field of neuroscience.

She was trained in Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR) by Francine Shapiro the method’s originator, and Thought Field Therapy (TFT) as adjuncts to traditional talk therapy specifically for resolving traumatic experiences that may be at the root of current anxiety, depression, addictive behavior and painful relationship patterns.

Julie works with both individuals, couples and groups in order to feel healthy and vibrant at every phase of life. She is dedicated to social change and environmental sustainability through re-establishing our intimate connectedness with the rest of Nature.

 

Services Offered:

  • Individuals

  • Couples

  • Grief Support

  • Nature and Forest Therapy

  • Telephone and Online Sessions available

In addition to her psychotherapy practice, Julie is the co-founder and Lead Steward of elemental, an Earth-centered learning community offering Forest Therapy Labos, Re-Rooting cohorts, meditation, seasonal circles, yoga nidra, and space for reconnection and belonging.

 

“Look deep into nature and you will understand everything better. “ — Albert Einstein

Mission & Vision

Julie’s work is devoted to helping restore the human mind to its rightful place within the living world.

At the center of her work is a clear understanding: many of the crises we face — personal, relational, cultural, and ecological — are rooted in the conditioned belief that humans are separate from Nature. This artificial division has shaped not only how we live, but how we understand healing, identity, mental health, and what it means to be well.

Julie’s mission is to help shift that foundation.

Through psychotherapy, writing, speaking, meditation, and direct experience with the natural world, she invites people to question the inherited stories of division and remember a deeper truth: we are not separate from Nature. We are Nature.

This vision calls for a more whole understanding of mental health — one that recognizes the individual, while also honoring the body, community, ancestry, place, Earth, and the larger web of life as essential to healing.

Her book, The Nature Embedded Mind, gives language to this shift (2026 Nauilus Gold Winner: Rising to the Moment).Her clinical work brings it into the intimate terrain of healing and relationship. Her teaching and speaking bring it into public conversation. She co-founded elemental, an Earth-centered learning community to bring these ideas into lived practice and community.

Julie’s work asks us to imagine what becomes possible when reconnection is no longer treated as an extra, a luxury, or a specialty — but as a necessary foundation for personal healing, cultural regeneration, and the future of life on Earth.