Flourish Studios® Founder Julia M. Rahn, Ph. D.
Dr. Julia is a Clinical Psychologist with more than ten years experience helping people meet their individual and family goals. Her expertise lies in health and rehabilitation issues such as overcoming eating disorders and adjusting to chronic illness. Dr. Julia also has a solid record assisting both adults and children with patterns of depression and anxiety, and she takes a special interest in working with families with children with neurodevelopmental disorders including Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Autism and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD).
Dr. Julia's success is a result of her insistence on addressing each person as a whole and using creative interventions to promote change. To that end, she has frequently ventured outside her therapy offices to research and present ancillary support in the form of resources and products for her clients. Over time it became clear to Dr. Julia that the best way for her to serve the interests of her clients was to integrate all her therapeutic efforts under one roof. Thus Flourish Studios® was born, a relaxed setting where people can learn to create positive change in their lives at a comfortable pace, using the methods and tools they find most inviting and effective.
In addition to working with clients and overseeing Flourish Studios®, she is sought out for speaking engagements throughout the city to promote self-understanding and individual goal achievement.
Debra is thrilled to be working at Flourish Studios and the Studio For Change. She graduated from The Family Institute at Northwestern University with a Master's in Marriage and Family Therapy in 2007. There she gained invaluable clinical experience working as a therapist with individuals, couples and families for two years. Her therapeutic practice takes an integrative approach so as to better serve a wider range of clients with diverse needs. Here at Flourish Studios Debra is able to express her passion for working with people to find their voice and resolve to bring a greater sense of peace into their lives. She uses her empathy, humor and optimism to reach clients through a variety of approaches including individual, couple, family and group therapy. During the week you can find Debra on the retail floor talking to customers, working as a therapist, reading to children during Flourish's story-time, and much more (and usually with a quick smile or laugh). The calm and welcoming environment at Flourish Studios is a wonderful match! Throughout her work Debra nurtures her belief that cultivating healing within an individual also creates healing in families, and ultimately a greater healing in communities. She believes that positive change is not only possible, but probable here at Flourish.
