Julia Vering,MSW, LCSW,LSCSW, EMDR Certified Therapist,
Registered Expressive Arts Therapist
Do you have unhealed emotional wounds that are impacting you negatively today?
Are you getting tired of the voice in your head telling you you “aren’t good enough”, “are too much”, “need to be perfect and please everyone”, “are to blame” for what happened?
Have you found talk therapy has given you insight, but you are ready to do deeper, embodied work for lasting healing?
Are you feeling stuck? You know what you “should” be doing, but don’t know why you haven’t been able to yet?
Have you been told to use mindfulness techniques to ease symptoms, but have found sitting meditation impossible?
Are you grieving the loss of a person, relationship or identity?
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I treat unhealed emotional wounds, whether your wounds were caused by the “death by a thousand cuts” of not being delighted in, lacking unconditional love of early caregivers or due to experiencing unspeakable horrors.
As an integrative, trauma-focused therapist with 17 years of post-masters experience, I use experiential approaches collaboratively with clients to fit their interests and strengths.
Expressive arts, EMDR and other experiential approaches help uncover subconscious motivations and feelings, aid in emotional regulation, externalize issues and emotions, and restore the capacity for joy.
I have cultivated a deep sense of listening through working with individual clients, hospice patients, their children and families, and the bereaved.
I believe in the ability of art, music, writing, storytelling, movement, and drama to enhance healing when integrated with compassionate talk therapy.
I graduated from the University of Kansas with a Masters in Social Work in 2008. I completed training through Center for Creative Arts Therapy, and became the first REAT (Registered Expressive Arts Therapist) in Kansas and the KC metro area in 2023. I became an EMDR Certified Therapist in 2024 and certified in Somatic Embodiment & Regulation Strategies Level 3 in 2025.
When I am not seeing clients in my office, I facilitate fun movie-based expressive arts groups in nursing facilities and provide expressive arts services for hospice patients for Kansas City Hospice and Palliative Care. I received an Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts grant to complete a companion documentary & book about this work in 2024.
I hope to collaborate with you in your journey of healing.
Are you getting tired of the voice in your head telling you you “aren’t good enough”, “are too much”, “need to be perfect and please everyone”, “are to blame” for what happened?
Have you found talk therapy has given you insight, but you are ready to do deeper, embodied work for lasting healing?
Are you feeling stuck? You know what you “should” be doing, but don’t know why you haven’t been able to yet?
Have you been told to use mindfulness techniques to ease symptoms, but have found sitting meditation impossible?
Are you grieving the loss of a person, relationship or identity?
………………………………………………….
I treat unhealed emotional wounds, whether your wounds were caused by the “death by a thousand cuts” of not being delighted in, lacking unconditional love of early caregivers or due to experiencing unspeakable horrors.
As an integrative, trauma-focused therapist with 17 years of post-masters experience, I use experiential approaches collaboratively with clients to fit their interests and strengths.
Expressive arts, EMDR and other experiential approaches help uncover subconscious motivations and feelings, aid in emotional regulation, externalize issues and emotions, and restore the capacity for joy.
I have cultivated a deep sense of listening through working with individual clients, hospice patients, their children and families, and the bereaved.
I believe in the ability of art, music, writing, storytelling, movement, and drama to enhance healing when integrated with compassionate talk therapy.
I graduated from the University of Kansas with a Masters in Social Work in 2008. I completed training through Center for Creative Arts Therapy, and became the first REAT (Registered Expressive Arts Therapist) in Kansas and the KC metro area in 2023. I became an EMDR Certified Therapist in 2024 and certified in Somatic Embodiment & Regulation Strategies Level 3 in 2025.
When I am not seeing clients in my office, I facilitate fun movie-based expressive arts groups in nursing facilities and provide expressive arts services for hospice patients for Kansas City Hospice and Palliative Care. I received an Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts grant to complete a companion documentary & book about this work in 2024.
I hope to collaborate with you in your journey of healing.