Julie Marie Walsh, LMHC, is a licensed mental health counselor with over a decade in private practice and more than three decades of experience supporting individuals, families, and communities through trauma recovery, embodiment work, and group therapy. She is the founder of AllFree Therapy: Embodied Counseling & Healing Circles, a Boston-based practice that specializes in long-term group therapy for adults healing from childhood trauma, relational wounds, and emotional isolation.

Julie earned both her Bachelor’s in Elementary Education and her Master’s in Clinical Psychology from Salem State College. Her early work included certifications in rape crisis counseling through Project RAP and protective services work with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, where she investigated and intervened in cases of elder abuse, neglect, and financial exploitation.

She also served on the Cape Cod Coalition to End Domestic Violence, offering crisis support, advocacy, and trauma care in communities across eastern Massachusetts. Julie later worked in two outpatient mental health clinics and provided family reconciliation therapy in collaboration with the Department of Children and Families (DCF). She was Clinical Coordinator for a group home for traumatized teen girls at Wayside Youth & Family Support Network in Wakefield, MA. She continued clinical work in outpatient settings through DCF Counseling Services, serving both the Medford and greater Boston areas.

Julie launched AllFree Therapy in 2010, later evolving the practice into AllFree Therapy: Embodied Counseling & Healing Circles to reflect her core focus: group-based, body-centered trauma healing. Her approach blends psychodynamic insight with somatic methods — including authentic movement, yoga, mindfulness, inner child work, and structured group process. Her therapy groups are rooted in practices of embodiment, conflict navigation, nonviolent communication, and long-term peer intimacy. Julie’s work is grounded in the belief that healing comes not from insight alone, but from connection — sustained, honest, and felt in the body.

Outside the therapy room, Julie is also a lifelong dancer and musician. She began dancing at age five, studying improvisational dance, contact improvisation, and authentic movement — all of which influence her therapeutic style. She is also a practicing jazz artist, performing on acoustic bass, with a love for pieces like “I Know You Know” by Esperanza Spalding.

Julie brings all of this — her clinical expertise, creative roots, and embodied presence — into the healing spaces she facilitates. Her clients know her as someone who listens deeply, laughs easily, and holds space for both the grief and the growth.