Dr. Julia Heavner is a therapist in Baltimore who focuses on helping clients improve relationships. She sees couples and individuals for therapy. She considers cultural & individual identity factors as she works to establish a collaborative therapeutic environment in which each client feel safe, empowered, and heard. Her areas of interest include romantic relationship concerns, identity development, religious issues, and ADHD/executive functioning challenges. She utilizes the Gottman Method (Level 2 Trained) and elements from EFT in her therapy with couples. When seeing individuals, she draws from training in psychodynamic theory, DBT, and relational approaches. Julia completed her doctoral work at Loyola University of Maryland.