Julie is a body-centered psychotherapist, spiritual companion and modern dancer. She has taught for 30 years at Lesley University and practices spiritual direction at Hebrew College and Hebrew Union College. She has a Doctor of Ministry from the Graduate Theological Foundation, earning the Samuel Cohen prize for her dissertation project, G!d Danced the Day You Were Born.

Choreography of Prayer was published in the book, Seeking Redemption in an Unredeemed World, ed. by Rabbi Avruhm Addison and Barbara Breitman. She choreographed of Passage: The Space between Exile and Arrival and Imagining Talmud.