Julie Singer, M.Ed., JD

Julie Singer is a Nashville-based therapist who works with adults navigating anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, life transitions, identity questions, and relationship concerns. She offers a warm, thoughtful space for clients who want to better understand themselves, make sense of difficult experiences, and build lives and relationships that feel more authentic and meaningful.

Julie is attentive to how personal history, identity, relationships, and the roles people carry shape their inner experience. She approaches therapy with presence, genuine curiosity, and respect for each client’s pace, believing meaningful work begins when people feel seen, understood, and able to be honest about what they are experiencing.

Before becoming a therapist, Julie practiced law for ten years. Her experience as an attorney gives her a particular understanding of the pressure to be capable, composed, and certain, even when something may feel unsettled beneath the surface.

How Julie works

Julie works primarily from a relational, psychodynamic, and humanistic perspective while drawing from other approaches based on each client’s needs.

Therapy with Julie may involve exploring how earlier experiences and important relationships have shaped the emotions, expectations, and patterns that show up in your life today. Rather than focusing only on immediate symptoms, she helps clients develop a deeper understanding of what may be happening beneath the surface and how those patterns continue to influence their choices and relationships.

Julie also pays attention to what develops within the therapy relationship itself. Feeling understood, expressing needs, navigating vulnerability, or noticing the impulse to withdraw, please, perform, or stay in control can all offer meaningful insight.

Her work may help clients:

• Better understand recurring emotional and relationship patterns
• Process difficult or painful experiences
• Develop greater self-acceptance
• Feel more connected to their emotions and needs
• Navigate change with greater clarity
• Explore identity, values, and questions of meaning
• Build more honest and fulfilling relationships
• Move toward a life that feels more aligned with who they are

Julie believes therapy should be collaborative. She does not assume she knows a client’s experience better than they do. Instead, she brings curiosity, clinical perspective, and care to a process of understanding what has shaped the client and what may support meaningful change.

Areas of focus

Julie supports adults navigating:

• Anxiety
• Depression
• Trauma and difficult past experiences
• Grief and loss
• Life transitions
• Identity exploration
• Relationship concerns
• Perfectionism and self-criticism
• Questions of meaning, purpose, and fulfillment
• The emotional demands of high-responsibility careers

A list of specialties cannot capture every reason someone may seek therapy. Our Client Care team can learn more about what you are experiencing and help determine whether Julie or another Nashville Psych therapist may be the best fit.

Therapy for attorneys and other high-responsibility professionals

The qualities that help people succeed in demanding professions can sometimes make it harder to recognize or respond to their own emotional needs.

Attorneys and other high-responsibility professionals may be accustomed to analyzing complex problems, anticipating risk, advocating for others, maintaining control, and performing under pressure. Those strengths can be valuable, but they may also contribute to overthinking, perfectionism, emotional distance, difficulty asking for help, or the sense that there is little room to be uncertain.

Because Julie practiced law for a decade, she understands many of the demands and expectations that can accompany legal work. Therapy offers a different kind of space, one where you do not need to have the answer, make the argument, or present a polished version of yourself.

Julie helps clients slow down, understand what they are carrying, and consider whether the patterns that have helped them succeed are also affecting their relationships, wellbeing, or sense of fulfillment.

Education and professional background

Julie earned her Master of Education in Human Development Counseling from Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College. She completed clinical internships at the Lipscomb University Counseling Center and Nashville Psych.

Before entering the mental health field, Julie earned a Bachelor of Arts in English and a law degree from the University of Virginia. She practiced law for ten years before deciding to pursue counseling.

Although she found meaning in her legal career, Julie became increasingly drawn to work that allowed for deeper connection and a more direct role in helping people understand themselves and their relationships. Her experiences as an attorney, therapist, and mother continue to inform the empathy, intention, and appreciation for complexity she brings to her clinical work.

Julie is a member of the American Counseling Association and the Nashville Psychotherapy Institute. She practices under the supervision of Dr. Dan Goldstein at Nashville Psych and Dr. Jay Tift, LPC-MHSP.

Outside of the office, Julie enjoys running, practicing yoga, hiking with her family, exploring Nashville’s parks, and listening to a good podcast.

Exploring whether Julie may be a good fit

You do not need to know exactly what to say or have a clear explanation for everything you are experiencing before reaching out. A free phone consultation gives you the opportunity to share what you are looking for, ask questions, and learn more about Julie’s approach. Our Client Care team can help you consider whether Julie or another Nashville Psych therapist may best fit your needs and preferences.

Our team will respond promptly and help you consider the next step.

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