About Dr. Ann Studer…

    I am a licensed health practitioner with over 25 years’ experience helping people through transformational healing journeys. Little did I know that my greatest healing story would be my own family.

    My initial education had to do with bodywork and helping people in chronic or acute pain. Along the way, I realized that I was dealing daily with people who were also in deep emotions about their pain. When someone can’t move because of an injury they often begin to cry or yell out in distress. My education as a doctor did not prepare me to take care of people in such a state! 

    At that time, I was in therapy and was receiving tremendous help from a technique based on Primal Therapy. The technique involves diving into deep emotions to release pent-up pain which has been stored as blockages in the body’s tissues. The technique helped me to release trauma from my childhood that had been at the core of my chronic allergies, depression, and panic attacks. As I moved through the journey, those symptoms greatly relieved to the point that I rarely deal with them anymore. 

    After a couple of years of therapy, my psychologist was offering an Integrated Feeling Life Coaching training program for people like myself to add to their toolbox of modalities. I jumped all in, knowing that it was just the adjunct I needed to bring to my patient base. So, I began to offer 1 on 1 life coaching for those patients who knew that the emotional stress in their life was causing their chronic pain. This coaching involved talking, breathwork, somatic exercises (releasing stuck trauma from the body’s tissues) and deep feeling release. 

    Over time, I began to see great changes in those people who went through my life coaching program. I observed a deeper, longer-lasting change that was an investment into their future. It became a much more comprehensive, holistic way to work with those suffering with complex health issues.

    At the same time, I was beginning to understand that my 4-yr-old was transgender. As I moved through the process, I suffered with an enormous amount of stress as I helped him to “come out” to the world. I had to dig deep and find my inner strength as I felt like David taking on Goliath while I revealed our story to countless family and friends - most supportive, some not. I began to realize that the one thing in my life that had fortified me for this - one of the greatest challenges in my life - had been my years in psychotherapy.

    It began to simmer and brew in me that I could bring my life coaching to the parents of other young transgender children. I was aware that there was very little support out there for parents like me as this was the first generation of little kiddos being allowed to “come out” and transition. I knew that the pain of these parents is very specific and who better to lead them through… but someone who is just a little further down the path in their journey.

    A little about me personally… I am a “Single Mother by Choice” as I chose to get inseminated and have a child on my own. Despite this, I am a regular mom who loves time with her kiddo and little terrier pooch. I love to spend my time outdoors on the beaches in our lake community. I love hiking and drum/dance festivals. But my superpower is dancing! And dancing around a fire? Well, that is my little slice of heaven.

So enough about me. Let’s get to helping you!