POST TRAUMATIC GROWTH COACHING FOR WOMEN
The life you want isn't waiting on the other side of healing. It starts now.
You didn’t do all that work to heal just to keep living small. This is coaching for women who are ready for what comes next.
You did the healing work. So why do you still feel stuck?
Oftentimes, we heal enough to feel stabilized, but we’re still rudderless without a clear plan to move forward with our lives. Think back to whatever started your healing journey. However you got here, you started looking at your life honestly.
But usually, the more you look, the further back it goes. You start with one problem and find another reason underneath it. What looked like a bad relationship or a toxic job turns out to have roots: patterns you learned so early they felt normal, even safe. A lot of us were taught, without anyone meaning to teach it, to expect dysfunction and even feel at home in it. That's confusing to realize. And most of it isn't yours. It was handed down, parent to child, for a long time before it reached you.
You understand a lot more now about what happened and why it shaped you the way it did. But understanding your past doesn't automatically tell you how to move forward. That's a different kind of work, and it doesn't always go in a straight line. Some weeks you'll take two steps back and one forward. That's normal, and it's part of it.
Maybe there's something specific you've wanted for a long time. A move, a career change, a relationship, a project you set aside years ago. Or maybe it's less of a single thing and more of a shift: you're stepping into a new version of yourself, working through a loss, or moving through a big change and you just want steady support while you do it. Sometimes the reason you haven't moved yet is simple. You spent so long putting everyone else first that wanting something for yourself feels unfamiliar, maybe even selfish.
This is the part that comes next. Not going back through your history again, but getting clear on what you want now and taking real steps toward it. Learning to take care of yourself the way you've always taken care of everyone else.
That's what we work on together.
What I help with as a trauma-informed coach
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Get curious about where these patterns came from and how they once protected you, then decide which ones you want to keep, soften, or let go.
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Practice noticing what you think, want, and know, and build confidence in your own judgment at a pace that works for you.
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Get clear on the limits that matter to you and try out ways of holding them that fit your relationships and your values.
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Sort through the "shoulds" you were handed so you can see what you actually want and decide what to do with it.
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Get steady support as you move through a change, whether you chose it or it chose you, with you setting the direction.
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Recognize the strategies that helped you get through hard times, and choose on your own terms which ones still work for you and what you want to try instead.
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Explore how the roles and rules you grew up with show up in your life today, without blame and without having to relive the past.
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Identify the patterns you're ready to change and practice new responses in real situations, with support and at your own pace.
The Post Traumatic Joy Method
Understanding your past is one thing. Deciding what to do with it is another.
You already have a level of awareness about what happened to you. I'm not here to take you back through all of it, name it, and process it again, that work belongs somewhere else, and you may have already done it. I'm here for what comes after: post-traumatic growth, the part where you create something new. We take the things you're still carrying and work through them, one at a time. Reframe, reshape, and release are three ways to start.
Reframe it.
Understand the patterns, roles, and beliefs you learned to survive. The thing stays the same, but its meaning shifts, and it stops running you.
Reshape it.
Practice new ways of deciding, relating, resting, working, and taking up space. The instincts you built to survive become skills you use on purpose.
Release it.
Let go of the guilt, inherited rules, and old identities that no longer fit. Not by pretending the past didn't matter, but by refusing to let it write the rest of your life.
Ways to work together
Start wherever fits where you are right now.
90 MINUTES- $147
Map-Making Session
A 90-minute deep dive for clarity, direction, and your next honest step.
FROM $497
1:1 Private Coaching
Six or twelve weeks of steady support as you build a life that fits.
FREE!
What’s Actually Yours?
A values guide for sorting the values you chose from the ones you were handed. Build your Integrity Blueprint and use it to make hard decisions with more clarity.
MONTHLY & ONGOING
Book Club
A warm, low-pressure way to keep growing between the bigger work. We read one book together on healing, patterns, or moving forward, and we make one simple craft while we talk it through, because it's easier to open up with your hands busy. It's a soft place to land and good company for the road.
Hi, I’m Julianna.
I work with women who grew up in dysfunctional, abusive, or chaotic families and are ready to move beyond recognizing their patterns into actually building a different life.
I know what it's like to carry the patterns from a difficult childhood and chaotic early adult life, to do the healing work, and then to stand there afterward not sure how to actually move forward. I found my way through it, and it changed my life. This work is how I make sure you don't have to do it on your own.
I'm a trauma-informed certified coach, soon to be ICF-credentialed. My job is to help you get clear on what you want and support you while you go get it. When I've done that well, you won't need me anymore, and that's exactly the goal.
You don't have to have it all figured out to start. If you have some awareness of where you've been and a sense that you're ready for what's next, we can work with that.
My approach is grounded in post-traumatic growth research. I use clear, accurate language, and I treat you as the expert on your own life, because you are.