Julia Romano, MA, MS, LPC-P, is a licensed professional counselor in private practice in West Virginia, where she specializes in postpartum care within an integrative, whole-person framework. She holds graduate training in yoga therapy (MS, Notre Dame of Maryland University’s School of Integrative Health) and clinical psychology (MA, Chicago School of Professional Psychology), and a Master of Arts in International Relations (Johns Hopkins SAIS).

Julia is the founder of Developing Awareness Therapy (www.developingawarenesstherapy.com) and the author of Yoga Therapy for the Whole Mother: Developing Awareness in Service of Postpartum Healing (Singing Dragon, 2024), grounded in in-depth interviews with fifty postpartum women. She is the developer of the Comprehensive Postpartum Assessment Index (CPAI), a free, open-source, 44-item whole-person postpartum screening instrument currently available as a preprint on SocArXiv (https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/bse4j_v3). She writes about yoga therapy, embodiment, and parenting at www.juliaromano.substack.com.