Jules Patigian (pronouns: they/them) is a seasoned, bilingual, EMDR certified Licensed Mental Health Clinician (licensed in MA, RI and VT). With over 25 years of experience of intersectional practice, Jules is rooted in the Boston HIV community, & currently serves as the principal of Same Boat Consulting, an LGBTBE**-certified company that offers tailored accompaniment (training, technical assistance, & supervision) to community health programs nationally. Jules specializes in collaborative clinical supervision for harm reduction & peer support programs, & offers walking counseling centering LGBTQ young adults.

Raised on a MA cranberry bog, proud descendant of genocide survivors, shaped by swanky education, & forged in the cauldron of NYC queer/AIDS activism in the 90s, Jules is a world-crosser & a bridge-builder. Jules has served incredible communities from syringe exchange staff in Cambridge to community health works in rural New Mexico & Arkansas; from peer advocates leaving incarceration in LA to Clinical Supervisors in the Bronx; & from young public health professionals in Malawi to trans social work students in Boston. They bring a passion for strengths-based, culturally & trauma-informed engagement to their creative work with clients, staff, & programs.

Jules integrates wellness into health care through movement, expressive arts, meditation & spiritual practices. They work joyfully & tenaciously at/from the place where movements for queer/trans liberation, dismantling white supremacy, & building equitable communities of reciprocity & care meet.

Jules is strongly committed to grief-tending in these times of unraveling– holding our personal & collective losses with grounded vulnerability & recognition of the impermanence built into our living. Jules is a dedicated writer, dancer, animal-lover, nature nerd, student of ritual & magic, & whole-hearted work in progress.
** LGBT Business Enterprise, certified through NGLCC