Julie Beth Tilsen

Julie provides supervision, training, and consultation to a variety of agencies, therapists, and youth workers focused on socially just, anti-oppressive, and harm-reduction practices. In addition to numerous professional journal articles and book chapters, Julie is the author of Therapeutic Conversations with Queer Youth: Transcending Homonormativity & Constructing Preferred Identities (2013, Rowman & Littlefield), and Narrative Approaches to Youth Work: Conversational Skills for a Critical Practice, which will be released by Routledge in March, 2018.

Julie is community faculty in the Youth Studies Program of the University of Minnesota, Director of Ethics and Practice at the International Center for Clinical Excellence, an associate of the Taos Institute, and recipient of the Minnesota Association of Marriage and Family Therapy Distinguished Service Award. Her work is featured in several counselor training videos produced by Alexander Street Press and Sage/UPG Media.

Julie is a hard-core fan of the University of Minnesota Gophers Women’s Hockey team and likes drinking cold press. She has a greyhound named Feet and two cats, Presto and Juno. The sorting hat has decidedly placed Julie in the House of Ravenclaw.