Flow isn't a state you achieve, it's a practice you cultivate.
Hi, I'm Dr. Julia Colangelo...
Flow Researcher, Keynote Speaker, and Private Advisor & Coach to public figures, celebrities, and thought leaders.
My work is focused on helping you climb out of the frantic sensations of being overstimulated, overextended, and overwhelmed that often accompany being a highly visible high-achiever, and access a truly sustainable flow state instead.
One where you’re not hitting high highs and low lows, and are able to cruise and accomplish with joy, ease, and lightness
without the crash and burn.
As a DSW, MSW, and LCSW, I combine my 12 years of clinical work as a therapist and coach along with my decade plus of research in the science and psychology of flow to bring fast, effective solutions to my clients.
Personally, I understand the pressures and anxieties that can come with living a visible life and running a business that thrives on that visibility.
Many of my clients come to me feeling like what they’re known for and successful in isn’t who they really are, and when we work together we unlock what’s holding them back from feeling integrated and whole.
The Flow Brain is dedicated to helping you transform your stress and find your flow.
The Flow Brain is an innovative educational and consulting company on Maui teaching neuroscience skills to regulate the Nervous System
▶ Dr. Julia Colangelo founded The Flow Brain in February 2024 as an educational company teaching practical and profound tools to transform your stress and find your flow through a trauma-informed lens to regulate your nervous system.
▶ The mission of The Flow Brain is to introduce cutting edge tools, concepts, and ideas derived from Neuroscience & Flow research to the world via free content, flow-state activating playlists and a global newsletter.
▶ Dr. Julia draws on her own experiences living with chronic illness symptoms and surviving a natural disaster with her family on Maui to teach practical and profoundly impactful skills to regulate the nervous system during challenging times.
▶ Dr. Julia regularly speaks and teaches tenants of the Flow Brain internally and externally for companies, organizations and at events.
When we work together, I’ll partner with you to surf the waves of energy in your life so you can find your flow and ride joyfully and confidently, without crashing so hard – and – I’ll hold you gently when you do.
Because occasional wipe outs are inevitable.
Even for the most successful of us.
Together, I’ll help you access your greatest focus and flow and enjoy a whole new way of leading and living – so you can be the most creative, lit-up, precious, glowing version of yourself possible.
This often means doing the OPPOSITE of what you’ve been doing.
And sure, it can be scary and require effort at first – as it’s counterintuitive, but it’s also where your greatest flow state, potential, and possibility lives.
The result?
Massive shifts that you’d never imagined happening near-instantly.
▶ Feeling lighter, freer, more joyful.
▶ Enjoying a far shorter to-do list and simplified lifestyle.
▶ Owning all of your energy, instead of watching it spill out.
And no, it doesn’t require an unrealistic 4-hour self care routine… (Self-help gurus, I’m looking at you.)
The next year of your life can look and feel wildly different from just one simple shift in your approach to life and work.
I’ve seen it with my own eyes, and heard it repeatedly from clients and students of mine.
“I can’t believe what just happened.”
"This speaks to me SO much!"
“That ONE change created such a quick 180.”
My best clients often refer to me as their professional “secret keeper.”
As a highly visible public figure, celebrity, or thought leader, it’s even more important to have a space where you can be seen, heard, and supported knowing that the work we do is both highly individualized and confidential.
I’d share more testimonials but my clients’ privacy and safety comes first.
So who am I, really?
Beyond being the clinical researcher who’s devoted her life to understanding the science behind our best and most sustainable flow states?
Well...
I research flow because it was so difficult to find my own flow. After severe bullying as a kid, I found flow and healing in music and crafts.
If you worry you’re too old, or it’s too late to change you’re brain, you’re in the right place. In adulthood I’ve recovered from burn out and managed some pretty serious chronic health symptoms and coping with traumas and event a natural disaster here on Maui. I know what it’s like to be out of flow and need to find inner peace in a brain that needs practical and easily incorporated into daily life while dealing with stress.
I teach you how to regulate your nervous system with simple tools based on your personality and learning styles and love that all of our brains are different.
I’m a psychology nerd from New Jersey who’s also kind of a hippie, used to play percussion in Washington Square Park while at NYU and now enjoys being near the ocean on Maui with my family, living a private and quiet life.
