About Julie Ann Ferreira
Trauma Healing Practitioner | Intuitive Guide | Healing Touch Provider
Julie Ann Ferreira is the healing force behind Sol Touch Healing—a practice rooted in compassion, embodiment, and deep listening.
For years, Julie Ann brought her grounding and nurturing presence to children and families as a Waldorf Kindergarten teacher and later as a social worker supporting foster youth. These experiences, combined with her own profound healing journey, inform every aspect of her work.
Julie Ann supports others in gently accessing what the body remembers—guiding them toward great capacity, reconnection, and inner peace.
She is currently working on her Master's Degree in Social Work and aims to do integrate somatics and nature connection into her clinical practice.
An Integrated Approach to Healing
A student of somatics, neuroplasticity, and energy healing, Julie Ann weaves together top-down (mind/brain) and bottom-up (nervous system/body) approaches to support whole-person transformation. Her work is holistic, trauma-informed, and deeply intuitive.
She aims to help individuals restore coherence in their hearts, peace in their minds, and calm in their bodies. Her goal is to help weave a net of remembrance and help us all restore a healthy relationship to the web of ancestors and Life that sustains us.
Whether you are navigating chronic stress, past trauma, or emotional overwhelm, Julie Ann’s presence helps create the safety needed for true healing to unfold.
Why “Sol Touch”?
In her native Portuguese, Sol means sun—and Julie Ann is a devoted lover of the sun, as well as the human soul.
Sol Touch reflects her heartfelt desire to offer the kind of warmth, nourishment, and illumination that have been essential on her own healing journey.
Trainings & Certifications
- University of Kentucky Master's in Social Work w/Clinical Social Work certificate (in progress)
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End of Trauma Course w/ Stephen Hoskins, Organic Intelligence. (Proven practices that allow the biology to move from states of trauma, anxiety and stuckness, to growth, ease and enjoyment.)
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Professional Development in Community Mental Health: Multicultural Orientation (MCO), Motivational Interviewing, and Community Resiliency Model (CRM) w/ Trauma Resource Institute (Parts 1-3) skills-based, stabilization program to re-set the natural balance of the nervous system.
- Tao of Trauma Nervous System Healing with Alaine D. Duncan (Somatic Experiencing, Five Element Theory, Polyvagal Theory)
- Grief Ritual Training for the Climate Aware, w/ Francis Weller, Holly Truhlar & Steffie Bednarek and the Center for Climate Psychology
- The Resilient Heart™: Trauma-Sensitive HeartMath® w/ The HeartMath Institute
- Coaching Foundations with Donna Zajonc, Center for the Empowerment Dynamic
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National Institute for Clinical Application of Behavioral MedicineHow to Work with Emerging Defense Responses to Trauma Beyond the Fight/Flight/Freeze Model & Why the Vagal System Holds the Key to the Treatment of Trauma
- Voice Dialogue* Immersion and Peer to Peer study group with Master trainer Martha Lou Wolff.
- Seasonal Energetics* (Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter) with Prune Harris
- Ancestral Lineage Repair* with Daniel Foor, Ancestral Medicine
- Usui Reiki (Level 1–3 Master Level) with Nashville Reiki & Advanced Energy Therapeutics
(* personal/non-professional trainings )
A Message from Julie Ann —
"I created Sol Touch to share the healing that has nourished and transformed me. My work is a celebration of transformation and the sacred and fractal intelligence of Life - from the microcosm of our bodies, to the macrocosm of the Earth. I believe we are capable of profound healing when we can honor the love and magic of all that we are — and I’m honored to walk beside you as you return to this embodied love."
