Hi, I'm Anna.
I’m a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and an EMDRIA Certified EMDR Therapist. I work with adults and teens navigating anxiety, depression, trauma, chronic pain, life transitions, and the harder-to-name sense that something is off.
I hold an M.S. in Marriage and Family Therapy from California State University, Long Beach, and trained at the Long Beach Trauma and Recovery Center and Open Paths Counseling Center. My first degree was in social work and it still shapes how I see things. I pay attention not only to what’s happening within a person but also to the relationships, expectations and larger systems that shape their experience.
Before becoming a therapist, I lived and worked in the United Kingdom, Spain, and Germany, where I grew up. Fifteen years of living abroad taught me to stay curious, question my assumptions and appreciate that what helps one person might not be what another needs.
I bring curiosity, warmth, and a sense of humor into the room. I take your experiences seriously while making space for lightness and laughter along the way.
Belonging & Healing
We live in a society that places a high value on confidence, independence, and achievement, sometimes at the expense of connection, belonging, and a sense of worth that isn’t tied to what we do.
We’re constantly handed expectations about who we should be, how we should look, what we should achieve and how we should think and feel. Gender roles, stereotypes, and cultural norms shape these expectations, often without us realizing how much we’ve internalized them.
The cost can be a growing sense of disconnection, not feeling at home in our own bodies, not feeling connected to ourselves or the people and communities around us.
I believe that mind and body have a remarkable capacity for healing when given the right conditions. Rather than seeing symptoms simply as something to get rid of, I’m curious about what they might tell us about a person’s experiences, needs, and ways of adapting to the world. Much of my work is helping to create the conditions in which change becomes possible.