Meet Anna

Welcome. I’m a parent, Registered Nurse and passionate Life Coach based in Santa Barbara, CA dedicated to partnering with individuals to create the life they most deeply desire.

My healing journey began slowly when I became a single parent at twenty-two. For the first time in my life, I began to feel a sense of purpose and self-worth based in motherhood. This novel and profound experience led me down the path to discover my essential Self and reclaim embodiment, self-love, integrity, pleasure, and connection. It took nearly a decade to finally understand that my value in the world, and everyone’s, is inherent, and not based on our various roles, achievements or successes. I believe we each have something unique and equally significant to contribute, and it takes a strong connection to one’s self to access these gifts. I also believe that personal accountability is the key to self-empowerment, and to accept responsibility for one’s life gives each of us back the power to heal, imagine, then create the relationships, careers and lives our Self most desires.

In my childhood, I often felt lonely, disconnected and misunderstood. I desperately longed for connection. I felt so much, but had a hard time experiencing and expressing joy. I spent my teenage years searching for belonging and novelty (in all the wrong places), and my adolescent experience became blurred by traumatic relationships and substance abuse.

Through coaching, therapy, yoga and nourishing relationships, I discovered profound insights about self-discovery and embodiment, and the strength that can be cultivated by vulnerability and truth-telling. Currently, I’ve arrived at a beautiful chapter where I’ve found a loving partner and I’ve begun to co-create the family I've always yearned for.

I believe our healing journeys are lifelong. Why not start now?

My own personal experiences have shaped my coaching approach, allowing me to connect deeply with individuals navigating life's various twists and turns.

I will help you to reconnect with your body and Self, tap into your creativity, rediscover your strengths, uncover desires, and move toward your own vision of fulfillment. I deeply believe that embodied beings ultimately contribute to a more beautiful, loving, free and connected world.

I especially love working with individuals in various relationship and role transitions. Specifically, I love to support women during matrescence (the perinatal period or the transition into motherhood), single parents, young adults and those struggling to find joy, purpose and pleasure in their lives and relationships.