About Annie
I work actively with diverse clients to harness their inner resources and vitality to transform self-limiting beliefs and engage more fully and powerfully in relationships, work and life. My approach integrates Psychodynamic Theory, Internal Family Systems, Interpersonal Neurobiology, AEDP and other models. Clients, consultees and students describe me as warm, grounded, approachable, funny and effective.
For over 30 years, I have collaborated with clients and executive leaders to address interpersonal effectiveness; stress management; work/life balance; relationship challenges; midlife adjustment; parenting and caretaking issues; anxiety and excessive guilt.
I received a B.A. cum laude from Yale University, and an MSW from Smith College, and completed coursework in Organizational Psychology and Leadership Development at William James College. I taught in the postgraduate training program at the Boston Institute for Psychotherapy (BIP), coached executives at Harvard Business School, and taught Master's Students for for ten years at Boston College. I am the group consultant to the staff at the Brookline Community Mental Health Center, and co-lead an observed therapy group there. I teach group therapy to residents in psychiatry at McLean Hospital, am on the training faculty for the Northeastern Society for Psychotherapy (NSGP), As the former Director of Social Work at the Marino Center for Progressive Health, I maintain an interest in mindfulness and integrative health, and completed mindfulness based stress reduction training. I am a Certified Group Therapist, a Fellow of the American Group Psychotherapy Association and a Certified IFS therapist. I present locally, nationally and internationally and have published book chapters on topics relating to group dynamics, including integrating Internal Family Systems (IFS) with interpersonal/psychodynamic group psychotherapy.
For over 30 years, I have collaborated with clients and executive leaders to address interpersonal effectiveness; stress management; work/life balance; relationship challenges; midlife adjustment; parenting and caretaking issues; anxiety and excessive guilt.
I received a B.A. cum laude from Yale University, and an MSW from Smith College, and completed coursework in Organizational Psychology and Leadership Development at William James College. I taught in the postgraduate training program at the Boston Institute for Psychotherapy (BIP), coached executives at Harvard Business School, and taught Master's Students for for ten years at Boston College. I am the group consultant to the staff at the Brookline Community Mental Health Center, and co-lead an observed therapy group there. I teach group therapy to residents in psychiatry at McLean Hospital, am on the training faculty for the Northeastern Society for Psychotherapy (NSGP), As the former Director of Social Work at the Marino Center for Progressive Health, I maintain an interest in mindfulness and integrative health, and completed mindfulness based stress reduction training. I am a Certified Group Therapist, a Fellow of the American Group Psychotherapy Association and a Certified IFS therapist. I present locally, nationally and internationally and have published book chapters on topics relating to group dynamics, including integrating Internal Family Systems (IFS) with interpersonal/psychodynamic group psychotherapy.
"Annie is an alive, aware, and compassionate therapist. She is extraordinarily warm, honest, direct, inquisitive, and sensitive to the needs of clients and colleagues. She also has a thirst for learning -- pursuing answers until she is satisfied that she has found them." Tracy MacNab, PhD