Julie Heifetz, M.A., L.P.C., psychotherapist, actor, educator, Emmy nominated writer, published author and interviewer for Steven Spielberg's Shoah Foundation. Julie has spent the last 25 years of her career teaching individuals and organizations to use their life stories to promote healing. She has worked with staff to write and share their own powerful stories as a teambuilding workshop, and has worked within healthcare organizations, serving a broad spectrum of patient populations: individuals facing cancer, the end of life, the illness of a child or profound disabilities.

Aware of the healing power of listening and writing a patient's story as a loving mirror, Ms. Heifetz created the Institute for Humanizing Healthcare, a consulting firm that promotes cost-effective and meaningful approaches to personalizing healthcare in today's environment, benefiting patients, staff and hospitals alike. The Institute has brought programs to large teaching institutions as well as small private healthcare organizations that are committed to the welfare of all.

Published works:

Oral History and the Holocaust, published by Pergamon Press

Too Young to Remember, published by Wayne State University Press