Julie Wiltshire, RP
Registered Psychotherapist | Associate Clinician
Couples & Relationships • Families • ADHD & Neurodivergence • Trauma & Life Transitions • Anxiety & Depression • Christian-Centered Therapy
Hi! I’m Julie!
I am a Registered Psychotherapist with more than 20 years of clinical experience supporting children, youth, adults, couples, and families.
Throughout my career, I have seen how deeply our wellbeing is connected to our relationships — with our partners, our families, the people around us, and ourselves. I believe we are wired for connection and that we are not meant to navigate life’s challenges alone.
Whether you are coming to therapy as a couple, as a family, or individually, my goal is to provide a warm, compassionate, and non-judgmental place where we can better understand what is happening, recognize the patterns that may be keeping you stuck, and begin creating meaningful change.
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Connection, Understanding & Meaningful Change
Couples & Relationship Therapy
Relationships can be one of our greatest sources of connection and meaning. They can also become places where we feel hurt, misunderstood, disconnected, or stuck.
I work with couples who want to better understand what is happening in their relationship and develop healthier ways of relating to one another. Some couples come to therapy because communication has become difficult or conflict keeps repeating itself. Others feel emotionally distant, struggle with boundaries or trust, or simply know that their relationship is not where they would like it to be.
Together, we can work on concerns such as:
Communication and feeling heard or understood
Recurring conflict and relational patterns
Emotional connection and disconnection
Boundaries and expectations
Trust and rebuilding connection
Navigating stress and significant life transitions together
Understanding how individual experiences affect the relationship
Strengthening friendship, partnership, and connection
I am Gottman-trained in couples’ therapy and bring a relational, attachment-focused, and systemic perspective to my work with couples.
Rather than simply focusing on the argument happening in front of us, I want to help partners understand the patterns surrounding it — what each person is experiencing, how they respond to one another, and what may need to change for the relationship to become healthier and more connected.
Family Therapy
I have spent many years of my career working with children, youth, parents, and families, including extensive experience as a Child and Family Therapist.
That experience has taught me that difficulties within a family rarely exist in isolation.
A child’s behaviour can affect the parents. Stress within a marriage can affect the family. Developmental experiences, mental health concerns, communication patterns, parenting approaches, changing roles, and outside pressures can all influence how a family functions together.
Family therapy provides an opportunity to understand these patterns without reducing the problem to one person.
Depending on your family’s needs, our work may involve:
Improving communication
Strengthening parent-child relationships
Navigating conflict within the family
Developing healthier boundaries
Understanding behavioural or emotional concerns within their broader context
Supporting families through transitions and periods of change
Understanding the impact of ADHD or neurodivergence within family life
Identifying recurring patterns that may be affecting relationships
Helping family members better understand and respond to one another
My goal is not to identify a “problem person” within the family. Instead, we work together to understand what is happening between people and how the family can move toward healthier patterns of connection.
Individual Therapy
I provide individual psychotherapy for adults experiencing a wide range of concerns, including:
Anxiety and depression
Trauma and adverse childhood experiences
ADHD and neurodivergence
Emotional regulation difficulties
Stress and burnout
Relationship difficulties
Communication and boundary concerns
Grief and loss
Significant life transitions
Individual therapy gives us an opportunity to slow things down and understand your experiences in the context of your life, relationships, strengths, and values.
Rather than taking a one-size-fits-all approach, I tailor therapy to the person sitting in front of me. Together, we can explore what has shaped you, what may be contributing to the difficulties you are experiencing now, and what practical and meaningful changes might help you move forward.
“The Problem Is the Problem; The Person Is Not the Problem”
This is one of the principals that most strongly guides my work.
You are not defined by the challenges you are facing.
This perspective is particularly important to me whether I am working with an individual, a couple, or an entire family. When people have struggled for some time, it can become easy to see themselves — or one another — as the problem.
I want therapy to create room for something different.
Each person brings strengths, values, experiences, relationships, and a capacity for growth. You are the expert in your own life, and my role is to walk alongside you as we become curious about the problem, understand how it has affected you and your relationships, and work toward greater wellbeing, resilience, and connection.
ADHD & Neurodivergence
Another important area of my practice is supporting people who have ADHD, identify as neurodivergent, or are exploring neurodivergence.
I have completed focused clinical training in ADHD assessment and treatment approaches and have experience helping clients better understand challenges involving attention, executive functioning, emotional regulation, relationships, and everyday life.
I also recognize that ADHD and neurodivergence do not exist separately from relationships.
They can influence communication between partners, expectations within a household, parenting, emotional regulation, division of responsibilities, and the way family members understand one another.
Rather than defining someone by a diagnosis or difficulty, I work collaboratively to understand how their individual brain, experiences, environment, relationships, and strengths interact. From there, we can identify strategies that are practical, realistic, and meaningful for their life and relationships.
Christian-Centred Therapy
For clients who desire it, I also offer a Christian-centred approach to psychotherapy.
Faith can be an important source of identity, meaning, hope, strength, and connection. For individuals, couples, and families who want their Christian faith to be part of therapy, I can thoughtfully integrate faith and biblical principles into the therapeutic process in a way that aligns with your values and therapeutic goals.
Christian-centred therapy is always client-directed.
You do not need to be Christian or incorporate spirituality into therapy to work with me. Regardless of your beliefs or background, my goal is to provide a respectful and compassionate environment where you feel heard, understood, and supported.
My Approach
My approach to psychotherapy is relational, trauma-informed, attachment-focused, systemic, and client-centred.
I believe it is important to understand people within the context of their relationships and experiences rather than viewing problems in isolation. Our histories, families, relationships, environments, development, and ways of coping can all contribute to how we experience the present.
Depending on your needs and goals, I may draw from:
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
Narrative Therapy
Solution-Focused Therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Gottman-Informed Couples’ Therapy
Other evidence-based approaches
I also incorporate an understanding of neuroscience and development to help make sense of
patterns in emotions, behaviour, relationships, and responses to stress.
Above all, I want therapy to feel human. My goal is to create a warm, empathetic, and non-judgmental environment where you can feel safe enough to explore difficult experiences while also developing practical strategies for moving forward.
My Background
Throughout my career, I have worked across community mental health and private practice, including many years as a Child and Family Therapist before moving into private psychotherapy practice.
My experience has included individual, couples and family psychotherapy, clinical assessment, treatment planning, psychoeducational and therapeutic groups, and collaboration with schools, physicians, and community organizations.
I am committed to lifelong learning and have pursued professional development in areas including couples therapy, ADHD, DBT, CBT, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), grief and loss counselling, trauma, attachment, and other areas relevant to the individuals, couples, and families I support.
Outside of my professional life, I am drawn to simplicity, spending time in nature, and nurturing meaningful relationships with family and friends. I believe in practising many of the same things I encourage in therapy — making space for reflection, caring for ourselves, staying connected to the people who matter, and developing habits that help build resilience.
Above all, I consider it a privilege to walk alongside people during meaningful and sometimes difficult seasons of their lives.
Getting Started
You don’t need to know exactly what needs to change before reaching out. You may be concerned about your marriage or relationship. Your family may be going through a difficult season. Or you may be looking for support with something you are facing individually.
We can begin by talking about what is happening, what you would like to be different, and whether I might be the right therapist to walk alongside you.