Discover A'nesis Retreats and Counseling Sabbaticals

When I re-dedicated my life to the Lord around the age of 40, my life was in the pit. I was basically planning my own suicide.

Ironically, it was in pulling out my Bible and reading the Psalms and then copying them into my journal that I began to be, as David would say, “encouraged in the Lord.” Eventually, I went back to college at the ripe ol’ age of 44. I finished my Bachelors and two Master’s Degrees working full time at Focus on the Family and going to school part-time. It was in the quest of myself personally moving from death to life that I began to be passionate for women in similar situations of depression and lowness. I began to realize how trauma had affected all aspects of my life. 

I began my professional career learning the Brief Intensive Model of therapy at a Christian counseling center in Colorado. I saw the benefit of the intensive process as opposed to regular 50 minute sessions.

Little by little I took every course available about trauma and abuse. It was from my own journey of healing, plus the trainings  God sent my way that the brief intensive counseling sabbatical program was born. I feel the unique combination of my own personal victory, professional training, Biblical training and receptivity to the Holy Spirit is God-ordained and something that belongs to HIM, not to me. I am honored that He would use me as a tool to help free others from the bondage of trauma.