Hello, I’m Anna.

Here’s where you learn more about me.

It’s no small thing to bring the confusing and tender parts of your life and relationships into a therapist’s office. Most of us long to have already figured out the hard thing, to have it neatly packaged and tied up with a bow before we share it with someone else. You may be wondering if I’ll really “get” what’s going on, and whether your experience will be truly believed and honored. Or for couples counseling, perhaps you fear that I’ll take your partner’s side. I’m here for all this! And I’m committed to remaining steady and present, so you can safely unpack, look at, and make sense of what’s causing your relational pain.

I love helping folks find clarity around what’s painful and confusing, which then leads to actual, real-life change in how they understand and relate to themselves and others.

As a relationship therapist, I help individuals and couples find their way out of relational patterns that aren’t working. These patterns or cycles are incredibly stressful and they tend to repeat over and over again. Both partners – no matter how hard they try – feel unable to get out of them. I help you identify exactly what is happening in these never-ending cycles, while addressing the underlying emotional pain driving them. In every session, I’ll support you in practicing – over and over – new ways of relating to yourself (and to your partner if they’re present). This new understanding and way of communicating will naturally spill out into the rest of your life over time, which is where it really counts!

My approach is grounded in an understanding of how people and relationships work based on attachment science, as developed by Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT). Because I’m not going in blind but with the map of EFT, you can expect our sessions to include direction and a predictable structure that holds and gives shape to what can otherwise feel like chaos.

Who I am

Here’s a little bit about me.

  • Over 10 years of experience in counseling individuals and couples.

  • Specializes in cognitive-behavioral therapy and EFT.

  • Passionate about promoting mental health awareness and destigmatizing therapy.

  • Committed to supporting individuals on their journey to mental wellness.

Who you are

If you’re looking for the following, we might be a good match.

  • A space to do more than just vent, but to dig in and get to the heart of things.

  • To make real and lasting changes in your life and your relationship.

  • Ready to take steps towards your goals.

  • To laugh through the tough parts of life sometimes.

What clients say

  • "Magnolia is an amazing therapist and working with her changed my life. I wish I had started working with her sooner!"

    -AB

  • "Working with Magnolia has had immeasurable effects on my relationship not just with my partner, but also with our whole family"

    -CD

  • "Before working with Magnolia I was feeling burnt out and lost. Now I feel like I have direction and am taking active steps towards my goals"

    -EF

  • "You have helped me more than you could ever know. I am so grateful to have found you!"

    -GH

My Story

The Professional

The Personal

I’m an odd mix of rural Texan and urban Massachusetts. I’ve lived roughly two thirds of my life in Texas, mostly on a farm and ranch (Imagining horseback riding, milking goats, driving tractors? You’re not far off.). The last one third of my life has looked a bit different after I moved to the Boston area for graduate school (think a faster-paced life, adjusting to crazy traffic, and learning that city folk don’t typically speak to each other unless forced to do so).

While adjusting to this area, going to school, and then establishing my career, I met and eventually married my husband. We both love small creatures, so after a solid start in parenting our fur child (aka mini golden doodle), we’ve gone on to have four-going-on-five kiddos. Yes, we’ve “got our hands full,” as I hear on a near-daily basis!

Since graduate school, I’ve worked in a variety of settings, including foster care and adoption work, hospice social work. I eventually settled into my long-held plan: to become a therapist. From the beginning, I wanted to provide high quality care to my clients. But I couldn’t always help my clients with relational difficulties find a way out of them.

As I started my own therapy private practice several years later, I had a watershed moment: I discovered Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT). Understanding relationships through the lens of attachment science had intrigued me for years, but now I had the tools to actually put these good ideas into practice, purposefully, in every therapy session.

And then I waited and watched. Would these good ideas translate into noticeable, real-life change in my clients lives and relationships?

I’m still taken aback when it works. When my clients shift from deeply stressful, troubled relational patterns into increasingly secure, warm, trusting relationships. I’m in awe, every time, when something clicks and my individual clients grow into the sort of people they want to be, regardless of whether their loved ones change.

Professional Background + Training

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