Sometimes it feels like the world conspires against our authenticity and we are faced with pressure to be someone we’re not, or to paper over our complex identities for others’ comfort and ease of understanding.

Born in Austin, TX to a Caucasian mother and African American father, Anna was adopted at 2 days old by Jewish parents. Growing up, she faced judgment and pressure to choose a binary racial and class identity, an experience which helped her acquire wide-ranging empathy and curiosity about others, and an interest in humanizing the experience of anyone who's felt unheard, disregarded, and misunderstood. Through Anna’s education and training, she learned to help support individuals to let go of insecurities, anxieties, doubts and shame while increasing their ability to join others, negotiating difference and commonality in order to move towards self-actualization and living as their true authentic selves.

It is Anna’s belief that therapy is a nuanced enterprise. The therapist should not only be a clinical expert but may also be the client's confidant, healer, mental fitness coach or a combination of any of these. She sees the process as equally valuable for high-functioning professionals who may be struggling with stressful lives, roles, relationships, and transitions as for people with severe or persistent emotional or behavioral issues.

Working from a systemic framework, Anna believes that there are deeply entrenched patterns within all of us that inform how we communicate, behave and function within relationships and the multiple systems we are engaged in daily. As a therapist, Anna tries to stay attuned to the client's experience in therapy and help them feel safe enough to engage fully. What strengths do they bring to the work? What vulnerabilities? With empathy, humor, curiosity, transparency and collaboration, she believes every client is capable of change.