About Anne
Hi, I’m Anne!
I am an author, mentor, and Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC), and the author of The Edge of Enough and the forthcoming poetry collection A Mouthful of Light.
I’m based in Asheville, North Carolina, and work with people locally, throughout the United States, and around the world.
The Journey That Shaped Me
More than 30 years ago, I began paying closer attention to my own life
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What followed has been anything but a straight line. I have learned and unlearned, healed and changed, loved and lost, raised two daughters, built a career, written books, begun again, and discovered that becoming more fully ourselves does not require making every part of us into something that needs to be fixed.
My own life continues to shape the way I walk alongside others: with curiosity, honesty, compassion, and respect for the wisdom and complexity each person carries.
My faith in God has been an anchor throughout my life. It reminds me that grace is real, that we belong to something larger than ourselves, and that wonder can be found in ordinary days as surely as hope can be found in difficult ones.
How I Support Others
With more than 25 years of clinical experience, I bring professional knowledge, lived experience, intuition, and deep curiosity to my work with others.
I have worked with individuals navigating trauma, grief, relationships, life transitions, questions of identity and purpose, and the ordinary complexity of being human.
My approach integrates therapeutic wisdom, embodied awareness, and relational depth. I am interested in what you have learned, what you notice, what you need, what matters to you, and how you want to live.
Today, my primary 1:1 offering is Walking Together, an individual mentorship available throughout the United States and internationally. I continue to provide therapy to existing clients in North Carolina but am not currently accepting new therapy clients.
What Guides My Lens
I move through the world with a deep sensitivity and intuitive awareness, shaped by who I am, what I have lived, and a lifelong curiosity about people and the world around me.
I often see patterns, sense what sits beneath the surface, and hold both the detail and the larger picture at the same time.
This allows me to recognize what is often felt but not yet named, and to meet others with presence, clarity, and care.
What I Believe
I believe we carry both what we have lived and the wisdom we have gathered along the way.
I believe in our capacity to learn, change, create, rest, begin again, and simply be. I believe there is room in a full life for grief and joy, certainty and mystery, effort and ease, depth and play.
I am not here to hand you a step-by-step plan for becoming a better version of yourself. I am here to walk alongside you as you understand yourself more fully and choose how you want to live.
I believe in a God who meets us where we are, reminds us of our inherent worth, and invites us to remain open to grace, wonder, and something larger than ourselves.
Energy Work & Integration
I have received Reiki 1 and 2 attunements. While energy work is not a stand-alone offering, that experience has become one part of the many things that inform how I show up in my work.
I bring professional experience, intuitive awareness, presence, and my full humanity to the people I walk alongside.
Life Outside the Work
Raising my two daughters has been one of the great experiences and teachers of my life. They continue to remind me how much of what matters is found in ordinary moments.
I love being outside. Wooded trails, mountains, water, sunlight, and the endless detail of the natural world have my attention again and again. I love moving my body, whether I am walking, hiking, strength training, practicing yoga, or dancing when a good song makes standing still unreasonable.
I write, read, take photographs, travel, and follow my curiosity wherever it leads. I can happily disappear into research simply because I want to understand something. Music is almost always nearby.
I treasure time with the people I love, conversations that can go deep or nowhere important at all, laughter, adventure, quiet, joy, and the ordinary days that make up a life.
