Julie P. Dunne

Faculty | Researcher

Certified Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Teacher

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Professional Background

Julie is a the founder of Drishti Holistic Wellness. She is a Teaching Associate at Harvard Medical School, serves as the Associate Director of MBCT Teacher Training at The CHA Center for Mindfulness and Compassion and is a consultant for the Wellness in Nursing (WIN) Program at Boston College. Julie is licensed as a psychiatric nurse practitioner and a registered yoga teacher.

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Julie specializes in providing outpatient mindful mental health services, including prescribing psychiatric medications. Julie has worked at Strong Memorial Hospital, The Cambridge Eating Disorder Center, Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital, Cambridge Health Alliance and TaraVista Behavioral Health Center. She currently provides per diem coverage at Lumin Health.

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As a mixed person of color, Julie feels strongly about honoring each person’s unique identity. Julie enjoys getting cozy with a good book, being outdoors and time with her family.

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Academic Qualifications

• Post Doctoral training form Cambridge Health Alliance, Center for Mindfulness and Compassion; Cambridge​

• PhD and MS in Nursing; Boston College; Chestnut Hill

• BS in Nursing ,Nazareth College; Rochester, NY

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Certifications and Training

• Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) Trained

• Apprenticeship in College Teaching (ACT) Certified

• American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS) Certified

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Professional Memberships

• ANCC Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner – Board Certified, Massachusetts, License No. RN2279418

• Yoga Alliance Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT)

Publications and Media

• Lee, C. S., Chu, S. H., Dunne, J., Spintzyk, E., Locatelli, G., Babicheva, V., ... & Jurgens, C. Y. (2024). Body listening in the link between symptoms and self-care management in cardiovascular disease: A cross-sectional correlational descriptive study. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 156, 104809.

• Dunne, J., Flores, M., Gawande, R., & Schuman-Olivier, Z. (2021). Losing trust in body sensations: Interoceptive awareness and depression symptom severity among primary care patients. Journal of Affective Disorders, 282, 1210-1219.

• Schuman-Olivier, Z., Trombka, M., Lovas, D. A., Brewer, J. A., Vago, D. R., Gawande, R., Dunne, J. P., Lazar, S. W., Loucks, E., B. & Fulwiler, C. (2020). Mindfulness and behavior change. Harvard Review of Psychiatry, 28(6), 371-394.

• Dunne, J. P., Shindul-Rothschild, J., White, L., Lee, C. S., & Wolfe, B. E. (2019). Mindfulness in persons with anorexia nervosa and the relationships between eating disorder symptomology, anxiety and pain. Eating Disorders, 1-12.  

• Dunne, J. P. (2019). Level of mindfulness in persons with anorexia nervosa entering residential treatment and the relationship with eating disorder symptomology and clinical indicators of health (Doctoral dissertation). Ann Arbour, Michigan: ProQuest LLC. (13805577)

• Dunne, J. P. (2018). Mindfulness in Anorexia Nervosa: An Integrated Review. Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association, 24(4), 109-117.

• Kelly-Weeder, S., Kells, M., Jennings, K., Dunne, J. & Wolfe, B. (2018). Procedures and protocols for weight assessment during acute illness in individuals with anorexia nervosa: A national survey. Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association, 24(3), 241-246.

• Wolfe, B. E., Dunne, J. P., & Kells, M. R. (2016). Nursing Care Considerations for the Hospitalized Patient with an Eating Disorder. Nursing Clinics of North America, 51(2), 213-235

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