About Annie
I have early childhood memories of wanting to help both people and animals who seemed to be suffering. I wanted them to be at peace.
By age 15, my desire led me to the decision to become a clinical psychologist and a veterinarian. I achieved my psychology goal and also became a vet tech.
During my journey, I discovered that bodywork, astrology and hypnotherapy were rich pathways to helping myself and then others, become self-aware and accepting.
Early Career
I completed a Bachelors degree in psychology at Hofstra University in New York and began my Masters degree at the New School for Social Research in New York City.
I continued my Masters at the California School of Professional Psychology in San Diego and finished my Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at International College in Los Angeles.
I took graduate school courses in human performance and hypnosis while also dedicating four years to studying Bioenergetic Analysis with Alexander Lowen. I opened a Bioenergetics integrative bodywork practice in San Diego, helping people become more deeply connected within themselves.
1985
Rocky Mountains
In 1982, I joined the San Diego Police Department as a Clinical Psychologist Consultant.
In 1985, I moved to Colorado and became the Director of Mental Health in a prison. Several years later, I was invited to move to Aspen and opened Roaring Fork Mental Health and Training Institute.
I traveled all over Colorado as a subject matter expert in trauma, training law enforcement agencies and presenting continuing education for the legal community.
In 1993, I switched to the education side of trauma as a Judicial Educator for the Arizona Supreme Court, training judges and attorneys.
I also taught at the Southwest Center for Naturopathic Medicine in Scottsdale as a trauma expert, preparing medical students how to recognize the more subtle effects of trauma, as they served patients in community clinics.
This educational journey taught me a lot about how our mainstream service systems were not designed to work with the whole individual, but were limited to legal, psychological or medical issues.
I know that trauma is a multi-faceted, multi-layered issue, requiring a wholistic approach, including how we function as spiritual beings.
I left the Supreme Court in 1995, returned to Colorado and opened a private practice in Boulder. I became deeply integrated into Boulder’s spiritually-oriented, Buddhist-inspired community centered at Naropa University, where my trauma work took on a more meaningful, engaged, and hopeful quality.
2015
The Pacific Northwest
Moving to Seattle in 2015 represented a new chapter since I had long-dreamed of living in the Pacific Northwest.
In 2017, I moved north of Seattle to a little college town called Bellingham, about 20 minutes from the Canadian border.
After working in community mental health for several years, and not seeing great results, my early-life desire to help people discover peace within themselves, began to unfold.
I visualized the powerful effects of hypnotherapy that had caught my attention so many years earlier and knew that it was a viable way to help eliminate suffering and offer sustainable peace of mind.
In 2018, I became a Certified Hypnotherapist and began integrating hypnotherapy with Evolutionary Astrology.
In 2021, I achieved the professional level of Board-Certified Consulting Hypnotist.
After more than 30 years as a clinician, I felt grateful to be operating in a better balance between soul and ego journeys.
I love reading Lao Tzu, Eckart Tolle, Paramahansa Yogananda, A Course in Miracles, Dane Rudhyar, and more.
For more information about Annie’s practice of Evolutionary Astrology, click here.
