Julia Polter
Julia Polter, MA, BCCI, ACPE
Spiritual Care Specialist · Research Associate · ACPE Certified Educator
Associate Researcher, Charité Competence Center for Traditional and Integrative Medicine (CCCTIM), Berlin, Germany
ACPE Certified Educator and Board-Certified Chaplain (BCCI/APC) with extensive experience in spiritual care, clinical pastoral education and healthcare chaplaincy in the United States. Interests include spirituality in healthcare, Cognitively Based Compassion Training (CBCT), transformative learning and teaching, clinical supervision, salutogenesis and sense of coherence, meaningfulness, resilience and integrative oncology.
Previously Manager of Clinical Pastoral Education at PeaceHealth, USA (2021–2025) and Chaplain and CPE Educator at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston (2014–2021). MA from Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf (German Philology/Literature, Linguistics & Philosophy). CBCT® Certified Teacher, Emory University.
Workshop presenter at ECIM 2026 (Antalya) with Prof. Rogier Hoenders: The Need for Spirituality in Integrative Medicine.