About Us

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Julie Jalewsky is a licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker.  She holds a masters degree in clinical social work with degree specialty in children and families.  She has been in private practice for a decade and has serviced over 500 families delivering culturally competent trauma informed care. She offers exposure ritual response prevention, cognitive behavioral therapy and EMDR. She has specialty in risk assessment, fertility and integrated assessments preformed with help of psychiatry and primary care doctors for best practice. She has two years of post graduate training in psychiatric emergency services.  She has worked as a research assistant at the Harvard School of Public Health on a Breast Cancer Study called The Nurses Health Study II. She has also worked for the Taubman Center for State and Local Government which is a policy hub that makes recommendations to lawmakers at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.  

Julie also worked as an ongoing, assessment, investigator and adoption worker for the Department of Children and Families.  She also supervised a unit of six social workers at DCF.  She has done psychiatric emergency triage at South Shore, Quincy, Milton, Newton Wellesley, Norwood and Needham Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital Emergency Departments.  She supervised 60 staff as Assistant Director of Psychiatric emergency services covering 10 towns on the South Shore and South Shore Milton and Quincy Emergency Departments.  Julie also provided on call overnight and weekend clinical supervision for the psychiatric emergency services team.She has been a field supervisor for Boston College of Social Work as well as an Interim Assistant Director of a Crisis stabilization unit at South Shore Mental Health now called Aspire Health Alliance. She also served as Chief Human Rights Officer South Shore Mental Health an agency that services 8000 families. Julie is currently on the Board of directors of a charity organization still in development called Dynamic Family Farms which will deliver animal assisted psychotherapy to children and adults.  

Julie conducts forensic evaluations for Hingham District Court.    Julie has volunteered at a homeless shelter for woman and infants in Medford, MA providing free childcare so young mothers could attend parenting classes.  

Julie has also run a parenting support group at the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children as well as run Family Group Conferences to help reunify separated families involved with the Department of Children and Families.  She has worked as a hotline worker for the Judge Baker line providing emergency child welfare practice on evenings weekends and holidays in the Merrimack Valley.  

Julie currently has completed two years of nursing school classes to complete her prerequisites for a doctoral program in Psychiatric Mental Health Practioner.