About Anaya

​My work brings together, psychology, mindfulness, creativity, and spiritual exploration. Since 2006, I've supported individuals, couples, families and groups: deepening self understanding, strengthening connections, and catalyzing a rich process of meaning-making guided by values and aspirations.

 

I'm a licensed Independent Marriage and Family Therapist and AAMFT Clinical Fellow with over twenty years of clinical experience. I am a Transformational Life Coach. I trained as a chaplain in end-of-life care, and I am a mindfulness teacher certified through the two-year international MMTCP with Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach. I hold many advanced certifications including a two-year internship in  heart-centered hypnotherapy and breath work, BSP (Brainspotting), EMDR, MSC (Mindful Self-Compassion), EFT Tapping, EMDR, MBSR, Parts work, and many other somatic body-based modalities. My training is grounded in narrative and solution-focused brief therapy, and always filtered through a systemic lens. I am currently taking a second masters degree in Leadership and Organizational Change at the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University; my coaching with compassion skills are being honed there through Appreciative Inquiry and Intentional Change Theory, drawing on the work of Dr. David Cooperrider and Dr. Richard Boyatzis.

 

Creativity has also been a lifelong thread. A professional actor since my youth, I taught acting and authentic presence at Case Western Reserve University for 13 years. Intuition is also part of how I listen and connect. This is a capacity I have had since childhood and I receive it gratefully through my ancestral lineage. Alongside my professional training, I bring an openness to subtle impressions, imagery, and meaning, offering these invitations for exploration, while honoring your own discernment and inner wisdom. This approach begins with who we hope to become and supports meaningful growth through self-awareness, caring relationships, self-agency, and small experiments in everyday life that explore our ideal self, values, and aspirations, as we are supported in taking meaningful steps towards our dreams. 

 

​Across these different settings, my intention is the same: to serve others by co-attuning and holding space for them to reconnect with their strengths, gifts, and talents, and to support their highest divine purpose by bringing those gifts out into the greater world.