Julie Tilsen, PhD
Award-Winning Author, Educator, and Therapist
Engaging teacher, mentor, and guide for therapists who want their training and supervision to be grounded in critical theory, queer ethics, and an understanding that our work is political.
612-462-3707
Julie’s newest book, Personal Responsibility, Inc: How Psychotherapy Makes Society’s Problems Yours
(OR Books, 2026) is available to order now!
A powerful critique of how therapy reinforces neoliberal values, and a visionary call to reclaim collective responsibility in the face of systemic distress.
“This is the text we need to move past bromides of self-care and the ways pop psychology puts the onus of therapy squarely onto individuals to figure out.”
Dr. Steven Thrasher
Author, The Overseer Class and The Viral Underclass
“A wide-ranging and in-depth examination of how mainstream psychotherapy endorses the worst of neoliberal capitalism, opening a space for critique and genuine change, valuing of the standpoints of the oppressed.”
Dr. Ian Parker
Author, Radical Psychoanalysis and Anti-Capitalist Action and Revolution in Psychology: Alienation to Emancipation
“A masterful, daringly counter-intuitive critique of the mental health industrial complex…infused with the politics of hope.”
Dave Zirin
Editor, The Nation and Author, The People’s Historian and The Kaepernick Effectand
Julie’s Book, Queering Your Therapy Practice (Routledge, 2021) won the 2022 Book of the Year Award from the American Association of Sexuality, Educators, Counselors and Therapists
MEDIA
Epoché Philosophy Monthly Interview
(August, 2026)
Therapist Confidential Podcast
(August, 2026)
Radical Therapist Podcast
(July, 2023)
Radical Therapist Podcast
(July, 2026)