Julie Whiford

Julie Whitford, MA, LPCC is a licensed clinician, child and family therapist, who offers parent coaching specializing in working with parents of children Birth through age 8. Children develop and grow within the context of the parent-child relationship and the family system. A child's parents and other caregivers' capacity to self-reflect, their presence, responses and parenting styles influence their children on the daily. Julie can help you identify patterns in your parenting that are not conducive to your developing child and teach you alternative ways of thinking and being with your children. Julie conducts her parent coaching sessions via Zoom from her home office in Woodbury, MN under the business name Julie Recommends, LLC.

Julie uses her 20 years of professional and personal experience gained from her work as a child/family therapist, childcare settings, social services, and being a conscious parent herself of two young children. Julie uses an integrative approach to support parents which includes education on child development, the brain, impacts of the family system on the child, infant and early childhood mental health, parenting with consciousness and intention, and understanding your child's point of view and emotional needs.

Julie Whitford enjoys working with parents who are ready to put in the work and learn, invested in their children and parenting, who have some level of self-awareness, and/or who consider themselves cycle breakers.