Dr. Julio Carranza specializes in professional mentoring, trauma healing and life coaching.
Inspired by indigenous knowledge, and based upon my own personal, academic, and professional experiences, I offer you individualized mentoring, guidance and support that will positively help you transform your adverse childhood experiences and trauma into resilient attitude, connections, healthy energy, and strength to achieve your personal and professional goals.
Online Life Coach:
I am a Certified Life Coach with the tools, professional training and experience to help you create the life you imagine and get a renewed sense of self.
Certified Life Coach
Life Coach Training Institute
Issued Nov 2021 ·
Credential ID id30jh2uf9
SPECIALTIES:
Dr. Julio Carranza is ready to be your Personal, Professional or Trauma Coach and help you become!
PROFESSIONAL CREDENTIALS | EDUCATION:
I have also enjoyed a successful professional career as a juvenile probation officer, attorney, and social worker fighting for the sovereignty, self-determination and rights of Indigenous Peoples, and advocating for the needs of children and families, particularly those involved in the child welfare and foster custody systems.
Licensed Attorney
Washington State
WSBA #38211
Juris Doctorate, 2006
J. Reuben Clark Law School
Brigham Young University (BYU)
Doctor of Social Work, 2021
University of Southern California (USC)
Master of Social Work, 2025
Loyola University Chicago
Bachelors of Arts, 2003
Political Science
Idaho State University (ISU)
Personal Life Journey:
My life journey began with being illegally trafficked (and adopted without familial consent) out of Mexico as an infant, to laboring in poverty and the agricultural fields with migrant farm workers, to surviving violent child abuse, neglect and sexual abuse along with the California and Idaho child welfare systems as a former foster youth. After having to self-petition to graduate from a rural high school (class size of 17), I emancipated at age 17, on my own as a teen father without any biological, adoptive or foster family, without citizenship (at the time), and with only $500 and a bag of clothes.
Today, I can proudly identify as the first former foster youth from Idaho to ever graduate college, and also to graduate from law school – and the only U.S. foster care survivor that has ever earned both a Law degree and a second Doctoral degree (in Social Work). And Julio also earned an online bilingual Master of Social Work Degree!
While no prestigious degree or work title accompanies my childhood of growing up and aging out of foster care custody, I promise you that few professionals in any field could bring to bear the near-65,000 hours of life journey experiences as an indigenous Mexican (descendent of Nahua-Otomi) and foster care and trauma survivor in additional to their professional credentials.
My life journey has been a continuous struggle to overcome. But my Spirit Animal (and the ACES LIFE COACHING logo) is that of a Hummingbird.
Sacred to many indigenous cultures, including the Aztecs, the tiny Hummingbird is the ace of the sky with some of the most unique and beautiful powers. Did you know that Hummingbirds have an incredible GPS-like memory, a heart that can beat over 1000 beats per minute for speed and flight -- and then slow down to just 50 beats/min. to enter a hibernation mode. Hummingbirds can hover and even fly backwards, and they can also travel thousands of miles per year.
Like a Hummingbird, I am adaptive beyond my trauma, high energy, and able to swiftly fly up, down, hover, go backwards or forward to beat the odds and overcome any life struggles or obstacles in order to find life's sweetness.
Listen, truly committing to a healthier lifestyle, healing, and engaging in personal and professional growth is just that – a commitment, and it’s a big one. Honestly, it will take a lot of dedication, practice, and self-compassion. That said, my personal and professional commitment is to provide you with accountability, mentoring and support along your own journey.
I understand it takes courage to reach out and ask for help -- but you can trust that when we connect, that you will have gained an experienced professional, Certified life coach, and lifelong connection for as long as you need along your life journey. I got you.
Please contact Coach Julio if you cannot find an answer to your question.
Coaching is an interactive experience where we discover your goals and your passions and use them to help you travel down a path to the life you want. Coaching sessions are approximately 1 hour sessions conducted online via a confidential Telehealth client portal, Zoom or FaceTime at a time and date that is convenient for you!
100%! What happens in our sessions stays in our sessions. Any information you share with coach Julio remains private and will not shared with anyone.
The time that your Life Coaching process will take depends on the complexity of your background, where you are at presently, and your goals, commitment, and openness to a healing and growth process.
The process of healing and becoming is a process. What you can expect is a continued mentorship and patient guidance towards transforming your ACEs, trauma and toxic stress into a resilient attitude, community connections/relationships, healthy energy, and the growth of your inner strength and coping skills. Along the coaching relationship, we will focus our sessions towards your own personal goals, dreams, and/or professional aspirations.
No., ACES LIFE COACHING is not traditional therapy. Therapy is a regulated form of treatment and care aimed at relieving emotional distress and mental health problems by clinically licensed professionals. Therapy usually involves formal diagnosis, assessments, treatment modalities, and treatment plans to address the emotional distress and/or mental health problems. Therapy can be part of your healing process in overcoming ACEs, trauma and toxic stress. If you have an urgent mental health crisis, please seek therapeutic treatment or dial #988 (Suicide & Crisis Hotline).
Coach Julio does not offer traditional therapy as part of Life Coaching. Instead, Life Coaching is a partnership with you in a thought-provoking and creative process that includes mentorship, guidance, and inspiration for you to maximize your personal and professional potential.
NOTE: Coach Julio Carranza has earned a Master of Social Work where he received classical clinical social work education and field practicum training in traditional therapy modalities, interventions, and praxis and may supplement coaching strategies as part of a holistic therapeutic coaching approach.
Coach Julio does not offer insurance as payment. Julio does regularly offer discount promotions for individual sessions, discounted rate for individuals with lived experience in foster care custody or the incarceration system, and special rates for purchasing five (5) or more sessions.
To ensure fair and transparent disclosure to all clients, Coach Julio's standard coaching rate is $100/hr. Coach Julio's special sliding scale and discounted rate may be as low as $50/hr. on a case-by-case basis.
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