About
Meet Julie
Julie Lowe is an author, speaker, and counselor. She holds an MA in counseling from Biblical Theological Seminary, is a licensed professional counselor with over twenty-five years of counseling experience, and is a registered play therapist supervisor. Julie served as a faculty member at the Christian Counseling & Educational Foundation (CCEF) for over 20 years and has lectured and taught at Missio Seminary and Westminster Theological Seminary.
Julie has extensive experience teaching, speaking, and consulting with churches, schools, and other organizations around the country. She regularly teaches on topics such as marriage, women’s issues, sexual abuse, body image issues, parenting, adoption, and child maltreatment issues. She is trained in leading mandated reporter trainings and provides numerous trainings on child sexual abuse. Julie has a registered therapy dog that she works with both professionally and on a volunteer basis.
Julie has authored several books: Childproof: Parenting By Faith Not Formula, Safeguards: Shielding Our Homes and Equipping Our Kids, Building Bridges: Biblical Counseling Activities for Children and Teens, Helping Your Anxious Child: What to Do When Your Worries are Big, and Teens and Suicide: Recognizing the Signs and Sharing the Hope.
Her work and resources have been widely promoted by organizations such as Focus on the Family, The Evangelical Counsel for Abuse Prevention. and Paul Tripp’s Connecting Podcast.
Julie and her husband, Greg, live in the Philadelphia, PA area and have five children. They have served for over 20 years as foster and adoptive parents.
Meet Greg
Julie's husband, Greg, is also a trained counselor and available for counseling and consultation.
Greg holds a Master of Divinity degree with an emphasis in counseling from Westminster Theological Seminary. He also received a Master of Social Work degree from the University of South Florida.
Greg works as a hospice social worker and has extensive experience with issues of grief, death and dying, and grief support. Additionally, he has experience working with youth in alternative school settings and with the severely mentally ill in institutional settings. As a counselor, Greg has 20 years of experience with a wide variety of counseling issues: marriage and individual counseling, addictions, mental health, end of life, pornography, sexual addictions, anxiety, parenting, and family conflict. He counsels and consults and often does speaking engagements with Julie on parenting and marriage topics.
Meet Koda
Julie has trained and worked with several certified therapy dogs on both a professional and volunteer basis. These dogs have served in counseling centers, schools, nursing homes, libraries and various community settings.
Koda is a black English Labrador Retriever and the newest Lowe family member. She is a resident therapy dog at a local school where she serves the staff and students. You can check her out on Instagram.