About Julian Coryell, MA, AMFT
Reconnect. Feel safe. Be understood.
Sometimes you look around at your life or your relationship and wonder how you got here. Conversations turn into arguments. You feel anxious, unseen, or alone—even when you’re sitting right next to the person you love. Maybe you’ve spent years being “the strong one,” holding everything together while quietly losing touch with your own needs.
You don’t have to keep doing it alone.
I specialize in working with couples and individuals who feel stuck in painful patterns but deeply long for connection, safety, and emotional closeness. Using Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), I help partners move out of cycles of criticism, withdrawal, and miscommunication and into more open, vulnerable conversations. When we slow down and understand what’s happening underneath the conflict, change becomes possible.
My approach
My work is grounded in EFT and Attachment Theory. Together, we’ll explore the emotional patterns that shape your relationships and gently uncover the deeper fears and longings driving those patterns. I bring a trauma-informed lens to my work and am trained in EMDR, which can be integrated when past experiences continue to impact your present.
Clients often describe our sessions as steady, warm, and collaborative. I believe therapy should feel like a place where you don’t have to hide parts of yourself. My role is not to judge or fix you, but to help you understand yourself more clearly and create relationships where you feel valued, protected, and connected.
My background and experience
I’ve had extensive clinical training in community mental health, working with individuals and couples from diverse cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds. At the core of my work is a systemic understanding of relationships — how our past experiences shape the ways we connect, protect ourselves, and seek closeness with others. I completed my training at the esteemed Southern California Counseling Center.
About me.
Before becoming a therapist, I spent decades in education and the arts helping people find their voice and grow into their strengths. That experience continues to inform my clinical work, especially with artists, creatives, and individuals navigating identity, purpose, or burnout.
I am also a father of three, and parenting has deepened my understanding of vulnerability, responsibility, and the complexity of relationships. I know firsthand that growth is ongoing and that no one is given a handbook for navigating life or love.
When I’m not working with clients, I’m usually spending time with my children, playing music, or enjoying time outdoors.