If you’re here, chances are something in your life feels stuck, heavy, or uncertain and part of you is wondering if things could be different. I believe they can. And I believe the path forward begins in a space where you feel genuinely safe, respected, and understood.
That’s what I’m here to create with you.
I’m Ann, a therapist with over 20 years in the mental health field with a particular focus on supporting women and those navigating the long shadow of childhood trauma. I understand how early experiences quietly shape the way we see ourselves, show up in our relationships, and impact how we move through the world. I understand this not just professionally, but personally. My own ACE (Adverse Childhood Experiences) score is an 8 out of 10, I intimately understand trauma. And yet, as Peter Levine has said, our trauma does not define us, healing it shapes our true identity.
Choosing to heal that history is some of the most meaningful work of my life, and somatic therapy was where I experienced some of the most profound shifts. While I had positive results with talk therapy, there was something that talk alone couldn’t quite reach. Discovering Somatic Experiencing® (SE™) allowed me to access and release patterns that had been stored in my body for decades. That experience is woven into how I show up and work with you.
My work is relational at its core. I believe healing happens in the context of a safe, trusting connection and everything I do is built on that foundation. I draw on IFS-informed parts work to help you understand the different voices and protective patterns within you, mindfulness tools to help you stay grounded in the present, and use an attachment lens to help you make sense of how your earliest relationships continue to shape you today. Somatic Experiencing® (SE™) is threaded throughout, because the body often knows what the mind hasn’t yet found words for. This includes those experiencing physical symptoms like migraines, chronic fatigue, or jaw pain that may have emotional or trauma-related roots.
I also bring something to this work that no graduate program could teach: I know what it feels like to have the life you carefully built suddenly fall apart and to find your way through it anyway.
I spent years working to become a commercial airline pilot, and by the time I turned 30, was flying Boeing 737s for a major airline and living what I was sure was my dream. On September 11th, 2001, I was scheduled to fly from Baltimore to Tampa. Shortly after our morning departure, Air Traffic Control (ATC) relayed that an airplane had crashed into one of the Twin Towers. Initially, it sounded like it was a small private plane that had become disoriented and made a tragic mistake. Further into our flight, we were notified about the second crash and alerted that the possibility existed that we may have a hijacker on board and to prepare ourselves as best we could. There wasn't much to do other than lock the cockpit door and have the crash axe easily accessible. Fortunately, we continued on to and landed safely in Tampa, not truly understanding the gravity of the situation until we saw the images on the airport televisions.
Shortly after that day, I, along with 1000s of other pilots across all major airlines were furloughed. And with only 3% of pilots being women at the time, it had been a challenging road to build this career. I was devastated to lose it.
And yet, in the silence that followed, I heard a whisper: "This is an opportunity."
I listened. I applied to a doctoral clinical psychology program and threw myself into the work, completing all of my coursework and then, in a very on-brand plot twist, discovering I was pregnant near the end of the program. Jack arrived, dissertation still waiting. I also earned a Master’s in Psychology, became licensed as a school psychologist, and worked across hospitals, a college counseling center, and schools. I had my second son Finn, and began a furniture refinishing business that allowed me to stay home with the boys. Later I transitioned into school counseling to stay on their schedule and eventually found my way back to adult therapy and private practice. I also divorced, fell in love, and now share a beautifully blended family of four teenage boys and two golden retrievers with my fiancé, Mike.
I didn’t just survive those transitions. I co-created a life I love.
Through each of these chapters, I learned something that now sits at the heart of my work: tending to our past and connecting with our present transforms our future. That inner knowing, the quiet voice that pointed me toward something new when everything felt lost, is something I had always sensed. And with cultivation, it supported me in my most turbulent times. Helping you find and trust that voice in yourself is one of the most meaningful parts of this work.
If you’re carrying the weight of old or new wounds, navigating a major life transition, living with physical symptoms that feel connected to something deeper, or simply feeling like you’ve drifted from who you really are, you don’t have to figure it out alone. Please reach out, I’d love to connect with you.
Comparison,
gossip,
lack of integrity,
that hustle game.
I'M NOT ABOUT
Connection,
compassion,
good chocolate,
helping you find
& trust your inner
knowing.
I'm ALL ABOUT
"As You Start To Walk On The Way, The Way Appears"
— Rumi
