Services

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you." Maya Angelou

For inquiries related to any of the services listed below, we offer a complimentary 15-minute phone consultation prior to your first appointment.

Women

We specialize in coming alongside women who are hungry for fuller, richer, healed lives. Women, of all ages, long for fulfilling connections, a strong identity, and the ability to know how to navigate relationships—to set boundaries and get needs met; to bond in healthy ways and with the right people. These things can be challenging to figure out on our own. Most people weren’t given the toolkit or the examples needed in early growing up life to do these things easily. In therapy, you will gain the courage, bravery, and clarity you need to move forward. 

  • Our therapeutic posture is relational with an approach rooted in depth, attachment, and trauma-informed theories. We are warm and nurturing, joining with you in the places that are overwhelming, causing fear or distress; or great sadness and grief. Unprocessed historical distress has a strong influence on emotional life and relationships, which leads to the sapping of energy, peace, and joy. With wisdom and sound professional care, we’ll walk and traverse the foggy internal landscape with you to assist you in finding the light of day again. We believe women are strong and resilient, and we also believe that we are even stronger when we are connected on the inside, and whole. Therapy is about healing wounds; learning how to feel your life so that you can think more clearly; bringing all the parts of you together, helping you to live present and connected to the world around you—emotionally, spiritually, and embodied.

    We help women find the wisdom in and heal from their wounds, hush the doubt, strengthen trust in self, and snuff out shame. Together, we will work to reclaim your true and authentic self, so that you can live a restored, sustainable, and vibrant life. 

Men

Men, by design, are relational, emotional, and spiritual. However, many men have been given the message, through damaging early experiences or harmful relationships at home or in culture, that they are not allowed to feel or don’t have emotions - period. This causes radical disconnect on the inside and can lead to a life filled with anxiety, dread, or disassociation. Many men feel incredibly burdened in their careers or lost in their closest relationships.

  • From a whole-brain, neuro-scientific perspective, we help men find the strength and courage to tend to their internal life, and offer a space for holistic wellness to emerge. Therapy is a safe space to de-clutter the mind so that you can thrive in your role at work, deepen the connections with the people you care about the most, and live authentically.

Children & Parents

We happen to think kids are amazing! And funny, and interesting, and beautiful, and also a little strange (we know this, because some of us have our own, and they do the most random things - like putting their toys in bowls of water, and freezing them overnight for no apparent reason at all). ​But kids are people, too - with hearts that are impressionable, and vulnerable, and they depend on parents for...almost everything. That said, it is practically impossible for a child to know how to manage their inner life and hold their emotions without guidance

  • We help children understand what is happening inside their hearts and minds, and come alongside parents to help them develop and keep a secure attachment.

    We work with children and adolescents ages 7-18. We support youth with issues such as grief and loss, developmental/complex trauma, divorce, and difficult relationships at home or school. We also support parents and the family system with interventions that help the individuals in the family, and the family functioning as a whole. We use a relational paradigm, with play therapy, sand tray, paints, games, art, and sometimes talk therapy for the talkers out there. Together, we will work, as a team, to help you and your child find hope, relief, and security on the inside, to weather the storms of life.   

Teens

No doubt the teenage years can be so much fun! It is also a time in life where the entire self is changing and emerging. Teens start coming into their own during adolescence; but as it is with every transformation, these years can be clunky, awkward, exhilarating, and frightening. Parents often experience a big push-pull during this stage of development, and aren't sure how to help their teen navigate through it all, because parenting a teen is different from parenting a child.

  • We help teens who are in the midst of this struggle, and who are looking for outside support through it all. Bearing the new, complex emotional experiences of adolescence are quite different than they were just a few years back in childhood. For a teenager, the world is now more complicated; hence, they see more, and grapple with much more. We help teenagers transition into adulthood with curiosity, grace, and grounding.

Couples

If you are married or in a committed relationship, you know that the connection you share with your partner has the potential to be one of the most beautiful and fulfilling bonds; conversely, if not well attended to, it can also be a lonely and painful road to walk.

  • Using emotionally-focused attachment methods, we help couples gain the tools to better understand each other, become self and other aware, and restore love and care between one another. If you have children, tending to your relationship is the best way to care for your family. If mom and dad have a quality connection, this will flow to the kids, and home life will be secure, peaceful, and joyful.

Therapists & Graduate Students

To fully understand the important work we do as clinicians, it is imperative that we therapists invest in understanding and caring for the well-being of our own lives. Have you noticed when you get triggered with a client, or when your own trauma gets touched? What do you do when your personal life encounters internal or relational heartache? Therapists also need support, our humanity held so that we can attend to the humanity of our clients

  • When therapists take the time to sit on the other side of the couch, we then understand the deep vulnerability and courage that our clients participate in each week. Working on ourselves- through unfolding our inner world, leads to sweet insights, and healing, that will undoubtedly effect, for the better, our work as therapists.

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    People who are working on their graduate degrees in psychology are so much fun to work with! Most of the time, graduate programs require students to participate in a certain amount of hours of  personal therapy. Therapy with graduate students, however, transforms into much more than a requirement; it blossoms into a process of becoming. We love journeying alongside and connecting with students as they deepen self-awareness, hold tight to new and powerful insights, and grow as individuals and as therapists. 

Groups

Groups that we run are safe places to share, connect, and belong. We hold groups periodically for various purposes. Groups are a way to broaden the therapeutic experience to a social circle, finding meaningful connections around what are often painful areas in life. Stay tuned for more details!

Consultation

If you are a therapist and are desiring consultation for your clients with a trauma-informed, depth perspective, Annie is available for this. Please contact her directly via email if interested.

 

Areas of focus:

Complex Trauma and PTSD

Attachment Trauma/Injuries

Relational Stress

Anxiety (social and general) and Panic

Depression or General Malaise

Grief and Loss

Identity and Self-Image

Spiritual Development

Trauma Recovery related to church/religion

Adult Child Injuries from parents with personality disorders or addictions