JULEE "Jules" PORTNER

MS, CCC-SLP, IBCLC, LMT, MCHC, RYT

Lifetime wellbeing through easy talking and eating.

Meet Julee, helping people find optimal communication and nourishment for life.

Eating, feeding, swallowing and communication challenges impact every area of life.

Julee works holistically, integrating techniques for a variety of functional solutions

With 30 experience working throughout the lifespan and a specialty focus on pediatrics Julee offers whole person developmental help for feeding challenges, changes, differences and disorders.

Work with Julee before your baby, prevent struggles, promote healthy and easy to manage baby feeding and care routines.

Looking for help for feeding challenges, changes, differences and disorders?

Are you dealing with delays, diseases or struggles that you want the real details and solutions that make sense; for you?

Consults provide clarity and are customized to support you.

Multi-licensed, holding a variety of board certifications and extensive experiences to expertly blend custom care mixes ideal for each patients unique situation and struggle.

Sessions make eating, feeding and swallowing for patients and their caregivers easier and manageable in their real lives. This translates into enhanced development and wellbeing.

Thankful for a varied career with opportunities to take time off to be a full time mom, her most cherished role! Julee has been fortunate to play vital parts in crafting integrative clinics and collaborating in the development of blended care models. Helping develop feeding clinics, NICU follow-up care supports, craniofacial clinics, and multidisciplinary teams focused on sensory integration and complex feeding, development, digestion, communication and swallowing blended with supports for lifetime wellness has been an honor and remains a passion project.

Julee has been and continues to be a part of efforts to develop and implement expanded assessment and treatment protocols in widespread ways. Embracing the concept of whole person care, especially as related to feeding, eating, swallowing and ways to enhance wellbeing throughout the ages and stages of our lives.

Julee's journey evolved first from her lifelong awareness and involvement in health. Born to a family of holistic health care pioneers. These skills since childhood lay the foundations of her practical and easy to follow experiments and recommendations where she weaves together diverse treatments focused on feeding and communication.

By working one on one and in groups with patients and families in hospitals, acute care, rehab facilities, outpatient clinics, home health, schools, speciality clinics, private practices and telehealth; Julee has been at and remains on the front lines of innovative practices for the betterment of care in our modern times.

She has led support groups, training sessions, and classes for diverse communities, from infant growth and subtle communication for patients to parents and professionals of children with severe feeding, swallowing and developmental needs. She has taught at the University level and spoke about her work at various trainings for health providers and hired caregivers. Her rich experience has included collaborating with professionals from various fields, including SLPs, IBCLCs, occupational therapists, physical therapists, nutritionists, MD, DO, DC , DDS, ND, nurses, social workers, doulas, midwifes, bodyworkers, mental health providers, acupuncturists, coaches and varied holistic practitioners. Julee maintains an extensive network of trusted colleagues, ensuring her clients receive the best possible care and referrals.

Sessions are uniquely curated for each situation and treatment focus. Julee combines the latest evidence and informed research and practices, addressing the physical, emotional, mental, spiritual, and environmental aspects. Tailoring her approach to individual needs, offering a blend of conventional and integrative therapies. The goal is to support each family to their best answers with clear insights into the what, why, who, where, when and how of their care choices.

Julee's most important title is "Mom". She is blessed to have four incredible, amazing and wonderful children who keep her flexible, continuing to teach her how to apply skills in real life, reminding her often how each child is different and how what works changes with each step and stage.

She is excited to support and guide you on your ideal parenthood journey.

Professional Qualifications

MS, CCC-SLP, IBCLC, LMT, MCHC, RYT

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Enhance and optimize your family's well-being!

Mind and body therapies, such as yoga, meditation mindfulness and breathwork.

Ancient practices meet modern understandings.

Julee offers safe spaces and easy ways to experience how these techniques, practices, and treatments might benefit baby, kids, parents and families.

Using techniques rooted in centuries of wisdom, now backed by solid evidence

Guidance towards improvements in eating, feeding, swallowing and wellbeing blend movement, breath and focused intention into each session.

Her expertise started in early childhood with a meditation practice coupled with a health forward focused upbringing. Her skills have been updated with deeper practice and certifications in various mind + body therapies. Adding such experiences to visits with families results in better rest, eased anxiety with skill development supporting better overall health. The prenatal, newborn and postpartum time period are an essential focus in Julee's care offerings. A unique custom blend of complementary supports may be added to sessions for enhanced benefits.

The use of breathwork, movements, sounds, mind focus and visuals helps tap deeply into the nervous system. Guiding families in experiences to regulate and modulate even in the most turbulent of times. Develop your skills and unique recipe.

Julee is trained to integrate the body systems.

Helping you find and stay in your perfect balance.

Looking forward to meeting with you!

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Therapeutic touch, bodywork and massage are specific touch modalities to affect improvement and change. Identified in practices rooted in ancient traditions and now infused with modern understandings and scientific evidence of the proven benefits.

Julee has trained with a mix of touch therapy modalities which accelerates progress when blended with speech and lactation visits. Using enjoyable science backed methods, a super fun and effective custom home activity plan for accelerating and sustaining progress, relaxation and wellbeing is developed and implemented.

Cranial Sacral Therapy (CST) has recently gained popularity and is often combined with the work of a Speech Language Pathologist. Julee has been using CST from almost the beginning of her SLP practice, as a stand alone technique and infusing it with other treatments as a Licensed Massage Therapist.

Julee has training and experiences in variety of massage, bodywork and therapy touch techniques.

Speciality bodywork for Moms and Babies!

Oral motor, mouth, jaw, face, neck, head and TMJ massage.

Therapeutic breast massage.

Therapeutic use of ultrasound to treat plugged ducts.

Bodywork for tense, tight, anxious, worried and sleep deprived moms.

Hard to calm or not easily put down for long babies, erratic sleep, challenging feedings, digestion, babies with tight fists and bodies, or tongue and lip ties- these visits helps babies and their parents.

Julee has both traditional massage training and licensure with additional specialities in holistic and functional treatment modalities.

Holistic reflexology of hands, face, ears and feet.

Healing Touch: Accredited by American Holistic Nurses Association.

Marma Chikitsa: Ayurvedic treatment points.

Myofascial Release: particularly for face, neck and areas for eating and swallowing.

Sound vibration and sensory integration.

Applied techniques to obtain easy states of deep relaxation and primitive reflex integration.

Not to mention the oral motor, mouth work and CST work she has been doing since her early career as an SLP. It is exciting that integrative care is becoming more of the norm.

Julee continues her education of bodywork. (See teachers section)

Blending modalities and developing unique protocols for take home techniques.

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Coaching Mind, Body and Spirit.

Life happens, stay well through it all.

Beyond the mere act of eating, feeding and swallowing, how we approach nourishment—how we bring it in, retain it, and manage it—holds equal significance to what, when, how and why we eat.

How we speak to ourselves. the communication of our body and our babies to us. The inner guidance system that we can tap into and use to benefit optimal health and wellbeing. This is the focus of this kind of coaching, especially impactful for those families struggling with eating, feeding, swallowing, communication or development questions, concerns or challenges.

Julee offers coaching for sacred nourishment and communication and has studied with some amazing leaders in the field of integrative, holistic and functional wellness.

She is passionate about this work, eagerly developing programs and practices, integrating innovative solutions beyond how we typically care for these conditions today.

Julee is a multi-modality certified coach in areas of health, wellness, feeding, communication and mind + body techniques. Mixing real scientific understandings of why and how they work with experiences to feel it and know it! She is excited to share these techniques with you.

Julee continues her coach training and collaborations, beginning to author works to support this emerging field.

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