Anna is a Functional Medicine Certified Health Coach, trained through the Institute for Functional Medicine’s Coaching Academy, and a National Board-Certified Health & Wellness Coach through the National Board for Health & Wellness Coaching (NBHWC), a nonprofit affiliate of the National Board of Medical Examiners. She is also a Polyvagal-Informed Coach through the Polyvagal Institute & Play Zone Pro. With a BFA and a deep connection to the creative process, Anna brings a unique blend of integrative insight, strengths-based balance, and client-centered collaboration to her work.
Rooted in both formal training and her own lived experience with chronic illness, Anna understands that genuine wellbeing goes far beyond the absence of disease—it’s the difference between surviving and truly thriving. Specifically, wellness is a synergy between 5 key elements: how we rest, move, fuel our bodies, manage stress, and connect with ourselves, our environment, and others. Her functional medicine approach allows her to collaborate with clients and their practitioners’ care plans to connect the pieces of each individual’s health puzzle and discover clues about how to elevate their wellbeing in a holistic way. By celebrating wins, uncovering what each client’s unique wellbeing looks like, and approaching change with playful curiosity, she helps make health and wellness something that evokes joy, because feeling good is meant to feel—good.
Anna is deeply passionate about Polyvagal theory and its application. Her coaching emphasizes the way sensory cues are translated through the lens of our nervous system and turned into the thoughts and emotions we call our life experience. She loves empowering people to recognize how their body is their most important teammate and make sense of the ways it communicates. Whether she’s supporting someone in bridging the gap between what they intend to do and what they actually do, or helping them feel safe enough in their body to take meaningful steps forward, Anna provides an intentional space to grow with heart-centered presence, deep listening, and a belief in each person’s innate wisdom. Through transformative questions, embodiment practices, and creating the freedom of choice, clients step into the driver’s seat of their health. The coaching process turns hopes into habits as intentions become clear and compelling, creating a powerful intrinsic pull toward growth—stronger than any push.
Outside of coaching, Anna has been shaped by a global perspective, having traveled to 11 countries and immersed herself in varied cultures and ways of thinking. She deeply appreciates open-minded diversity and is a safe space for LGBTQIA+ folx, as well as those of a wide array of beliefs. She nurtures her creativity and connection through time in nature, dance, a voracious appetite for learning, painting, writing, music, Pilates, and authentic relating. Through all of this, she brings a combination of compassion, respect, and heartfelt presence to those she works with—meeting each person exactly where they are, and walking alongside them toward where they want to be.
She considers it an honor to collaborate with clients on their health and healing journeys as they turn overwhelm into clarity and build lives that feel not only well, but truly alive.
