My name is Anna (she/her). I’m an activist and soulful explorer, oriented towards truth seeking, meaning making and healing. I’m a mother, a writer, a millennial, cis-hetero white woman, and an Irish-diaspora person tending to my colonized and colonizer identities as we live through end stage capitalism. 

Most of my time is spent caregiving with my young kids. I protect and savor time to read, write, walk around outside, tend to my relationships, volunteer in my neighborhood, laugh and take it slow. My personal and professional life is about resisting “grind culture”, engaging authentically, being awake in my body and resting deeply. I am highly critical of  “hacking” and optimizing all the things and spaces all of the time. 

 As a therapist, my clinical work makes deep practice of naming and engaging with the ways that capitalist colonial violence manifests in each of us and deeply informs the ways we assign value, dream, and relate to ourselves, others and the land.

You might “click” with me if you vibe with one or more of the following:

• Are curious and committed to exploring the ways that antiblackness, fatphobia, ableism, sexism, heteronormativity, binary thinking, colonial domination, individualism and other “isms” are at work in your experience and lineage.

• Are a spiritual person operating at odds with and/or outside of organized religion and want to deepen the spirituality of your healing work and your living. 

• Are a caregiver to a child(ren) or other dependents and want to process the trauma of living in America as such. I also have extensive experience in perinatal/reproductive mental health.

• Are a fellow person of low melanin and high unearned privilege who is committed to pairing your seeing with doing, your feeling with transformation, and your lineage to reparations, abolition and divestment. 

• Are a lover of comfy clothes, animated expression, community care, camaraderie and candor in a therapist that is not defined by hierarchy, and want to be both affirmed and challenged with radical respect and love. 

As my work is decolonial, antiracist and anticapitalist, it is simultaneously attentive to your lived experiences of grief, loss, transition, adjustment and chronic or new struggles with pain and/or mood. I see liberation work as inextricable from what we also speak about as mental health work. There are lots of disciplines and modalities we can convene to bring healing to you. 

Our suffering has a story and our joy is essential and deserves air, light and beautiful flight. We cannot see and experience the lineage of our pain and the birth and cultivation of our healing alone. This work is sacred and it is my life’s honor to engage with you together, in both solidarity and guidance, towards our collective healing and liberation.