Hi, I’m Anna.
I’m here to meet you where you are.
I am so glad you’re here.
Through years of work and thousands of sessions, I have grown a passion for being a guide who teaches tools and skills that light your path to healing and transformation. I want to show you how to do the work and empower yourself to be your own hero.
On my journey to healing from childhood trauma, a serious eating disorder, and the anxiety and depression that came with both, I had some transformative shifts. Learning mindfulness, practicing self-compassion, radical acceptance, finding my authentic voice, and inner child work changed my life. These practices gave me the space I needed, allowing me the grace to make choices that freed me from self-abandoning patterns that were keeping me wounded, stuck, silent, and suffering. Now, I want to share this space with you.
Becoming aware of the space between myself, my thoughts, my actions, and my patterns was like magic. The grace I found in that gap was where the healing happened. Here I found superpowers: awareness, connection, self-care, wisdom, choice, and a “loving me” who guided myself out of the abyss I had lived in for decades. Using these powerful tools, I found the path home to myself, where I live today (with my own toolbox) full of peace, joy, and gratitude.
Life is beautiful and life is hard.
For me, there has been marriage, living abroad, recovery (from trauma and eating disorders), motherhood of twin girls, divorce, a cancer diagnosis, co-parenting, graduate school, re-marrying, step-parenting, healing from debilitating mold illness, entrepreneurship, and loving care of my elderly parents. It has been, and is, an amazing journey. I am grateful and here for it all!
Each and every time, the tools and skills of healing became more skills and tools of living. My healing path became a way of life, a life I love! I am a 30-year meditator, committed walker, and sometimes yogi who is passionate about living mindfully, holistic health, and the power of sleep and sound nutrition. I believe wholeheartedly we have been given the grace and power to heal and nurture ourselves. I have been blessed to have worked with some incredible guides on my path: physicians, therapists, coaches, and teachers.
Most recently in my own journey, a dear friend introduced me to The Adult Chair® model. It resonated with me powerfully. The structured blueprint to working with and healing different parts of ourselves amplified the work I had been doing my whole life. I decided to become a Certified Adult Chair® Coach so I could add this power to my toolbox. Other tools in the toolbox I use as a coach include: 22 years as an experienced Cognitive Behavioral Therapist with intensive Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) and EMDR Certifications. I am trained in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT). I also have extensive training in mindfulness, which I use as the basis of all my coaching work. It is the cornerstone on which we build your healing.
I’m here to support and help you. Everyone’s healing process is unique, and we will work together to find what will be successful for you. Our work will be mindful, collaborative, and powerful. We will build a “toolbox” of skills that will be effective for you and your journey.
I will come alongside you as a guide and light the way on your own unique journey. I will teach you skills and tools you will love – and in turn, help you find love for yourself, your life, and for being YOU!
- Anna
“Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stillness beneath the mental noise. You are the love and joy beneath the pain.”
-Eckhart Tolle
