Julia Mattis, LMSW

Julia (she/her) holds an MSW from New York University. Julia specializes in working with adults navigating anxiety, grief and loss, relationship difficulties, trauma, depression, work overwhelm, and the existential questions that come with major life transitions. She sees couples and individuals in our Manhattan office as well as remotely.  

She often works with people who look like they have it together—but feel like they don't. People who feel as if uncertainty or exhaustion has become their new normal, and they’re not sure how to live with it. Maybe they’re navigating a breakup that feels like an identity earthquake, or grief that’s overwhelmed their ability to feel like themselves. Maybe they’re in a life transition where nothing feels certain anymore, or caught between who they were and who they’re becoming. If you’re exhausted from trying to keep it together, questioning whether you’re on the right path, or realizing that the strategies that once kept you safe now leave you feeling stuck, you’re in the right spot.

With a background in photography and storytelling, Julia understands that we make sense of reality by constructing stories—and once constructed, these narratives become so embedded that we mistake them for facts. Together, she and her clients examine the stories shaping their present, trace the patterns connecting past to future, and question the narratives they've inherited. Julia works psychodynamically and uses Internal Family Systems (IFS), focusing on transforming harmful coping strategies while questioning why those strategies became necessary in the first place. Awareness leads to meaningful change.