About Anna

I didn't come to body-mind medicine through a textbook. I came to it through my own body.

As a teenager living with significant pain, I found meditation, movement, and dietary change. Not because someone prescribed them, but because nothing else was working. Those tools gave me back my life and eventually led me to the International School of Mime and Comedy, where I studied embodiment and expression in ways that still inform how I see people move and hold themselves today.

I graduated with my physical therapy degree in 1990 and started my clinical career inside a functional medicine practice. From day one, my work integrated biofeedback, neuroplasticity, psychoneuroimmunology, and somatic awareness. These weren't trendy additions. They were the way I understood healing, because they were the way I had experienced it.

Early in my career, I built and led a multidisciplinary practice with 17 staff members, working alongside physicians and neurologists in a model that was genuinely collaborative. For the first two decades, I practiced within a framework where disciplines intersected naturally and patients were treated as whole people, not collections of symptoms. That experience set my baseline for what good care looks like.

Over 35 years, my focus has deepened around the people who fall through the cracks of conventional medicine: hypermobility, EDS, mast cell activation, dysautonomia, chronic pain, nervous system sensitivity. The ones who have been told it's anxiety, it's stress, it's in their head. I know what it feels like to be that person, and I know what it takes to find your way through.

I'm shifting the shape of my work. After three and a half decades of hands-on clinical practice, I'm moving into consulting and education, which is really where my deepest work has always lived. Teaching people how their nervous system functions. How self-regulation works. How neuroplasticity isn't just a concept but something you can access in real, practical, vital ways.

My Luminous Series brings together everything I've learned: the clinical science, the biofeedback, the somatic practice, the meditation, the lived experience. It's designed to help you build what I think of as an instruction manual for your own body. Not a generic one. Yours. Because your system is specific, your history is specific, and your path forward has to be specific too.

This isn't a pivot away from what I've done. It's a return to what I've always been doing, just with clearer language and more room to do it well.

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