Anna's primary specialty is grief, bereavement, and end-of-life support - including the anticipatory grief that begins during a serious illness. She also works with people navigating other major life transitions.
Grief doesn't arrive on a schedule, and it doesn't end when everyone else thinks it should. Whether you're in the immediate aftermath of a death, still carrying a loss from years ago, or navigating the strange grief that comes during a slow decline - this is work Anna is specifically trained to support.
The goal isn't to get over it. It's to find a way to hold it that doesn't swallow everything else.
Most families navigating a terminal or serious diagnosis don't know that therapy exists for exactly this. There's a particular kind of grief that begins before any death - anticipatory grief - and it can be just as consuming as the grief that comes after - including for the person facing the terminal prognosis.
Anna works with both patients facing a difficult prognosis and the families and caregivers supporting them. You don't have to stay strong through all of this alone.
Grief takes many forms. The loss of an identity - when you become a parent, when children leave home, when a career ends or a marriage dissolves - can feel as disorienting as any other kind of loss. Anna works with people in the middle of these transitions too.
New parents navigating the identity shift that comes with having a child. Divorce recovery - rebuilding yourself after a relationship ends. Empty nesters figuring out who they are now that their primary role has changed. Career changers questioning everything they built their life around. Couples under pressure from grief, illness, or major change.
If you're not sure whether what you're going through fits - reach out. The free 15-minute consultation is the right place to figure that out together.
Anna draws on grief-informed, relational, and attachment-based approaches. That means the work is tailored to where you actually are - not where a grief timeline says you should be.
Sessions are collaborative and direct. Anna won't rush you, but she also won't let you circle the same material indefinitely without moving through it. She'll ask the questions that matter, make connections you might have missed, and sometimes say the thing that's hard to hear.
The goal is to carry your loss differently - not to get over it, but to find a way to live alongside it.
The free 15-minute call is exactly the right place to figure that out. Anna works with patients, families, and individuals at all stages - reach out and she'll help you find the right starting point.
Text (619) 737-2069 or email anna@asyouaretherapy.net - responds within one business day.