Julian Ernst, MSW, LICSW
(they/them/theirs)

 

About Me

I found my role as a therapist through community organizing and providing full-time childcare for queer and multicultural families. I appreciate the breadth and flexibility of contemporary psychoanalytic theory, which challenges the ways in which Western psychology has pathologized some of the most creative and generative aspects of human experience and culture. I also teach aspects of behavioral therapy where these provide helpful structure for clients.

I have experience working with clients of various cultural backgrounds and consider the current and historical impacts of racism, colonization, and migration in working with all of my clients. I also appreciate finding ways of connecting clients’ presenting issues with each their unique systems for making meaning of a chaotic world, whether through organized religion, intuitive spirituality, or secular beliefs and values. I specialize in working with queer, trans, and gender nonconforming adults and adolescents.


Clinical Experience

Private Practice, 2021 - present
Northside Center for Emotional Wellness, Minneapolis, 2019 - 2022

Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Fellowship, 2017 - 2019
Cambridge Health Alliance, Cambridge, MA

Outpatient Psychiatry & Integrated Primary Care, 2016 - 2017
Cambridge Health Alliance, Cambridge, MA

Healthy Aging Program, 2015 - 2016
Ethos, Jamaica Plain, MA

Teaching

Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Race, Culture, Gender & Sexuality
Case Consultation
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training Program, MN Psychoanalytic Society and Institute,
Spring 2022 - present

Working with Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Clients in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
MN Psychodynamic Clinical Social Work Association, March 2021

Education

Master of Social Work, Simmons University, 2017

Bachelor of Science, Cornell University, 2007

Additional Education/Training

Research Volunteer, 2020 - present
Cambridge Health Alliance Program for Psychotherapy

Examining the Experience of Otherness in Children and Adolescents, 2021
William Alanson White Institute, New York, NY

200-hour Yoga Teacher Training, 2014 - 2015
Akasha Yoga School, Boston, MA