About Julie

Julie Strong is a recently retired family physician in Halifax, Nova Scotia; she has an ongoing shamanic practice where she addresses the spiritual causes of illness.

Julie grew up in England, Wales and Australia, and emigrated to Canada in 1980. Her medical degree is from Trinity College, Dublin University, Ireland, and she holds a BA in Classics from Dalhousie University, Halifax. Her shamanism training is from the Foundation for Shamanic Studies.

Dr. Strong has presented internationally on the subjects of insanity in ancient Greek literature and shamanism. She delivered a course on The Goddess in Antiquity, spring 2024, for the Seniors College Association of Nova Scotia, which emphasized humanity’s need to reconnect with Nature and the Divine Feminine.

Julie is presently working on a memoir, Keeping It Together Down Under launching late 2025

She has three grown children and three grandchildren and plays viola in an amateur string quartet and orchestra.

Julie at age two, “reading” to her cousins.

Julie is passionate about empowering the elderly to explore journaling and creative writing with the aim of maintaining cognitive health.