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THERAPY & COUNSELING
ANNA AYEROFF, AMFT, APCC
MY APPROACH
Whether it's dismissal or invalidation by the closest people to us or by the systems we have to navigate living in society, many of us are left feeling invisible, broken, needing to be heard or to stay silent. I aim to help clients feel heard, witnessed, validated, and dignified in their experiences, struggles, and pains. I approach our work with curiosity, non-judgment, and empathy, and it is my hope that together we can make the unspoken or unspeakable, speakable.
I take a non-pathologizing, anti-oppressive, feminist approach to therapy. I offer somatic or body-based practices, mindfulness guidance, ecotherapy, and EMDR, alongside more conversational therapy. My approach honors that you have a body and that your body holds stories of pain, stress, and trauma, alongside pleasure, desire, and wonder. I support clients in finding more safety and presence in their bodies, at their pace, while inviting the stories their bodies hold to be told.
In deepening our connections to our bodies and selves, we grow our capacities to connect to others and to community. Together in therapy we honor the pain that’s present and uncover possibilities for space to move with, within, through, and outside of that pain.
I am passionate about supporting people navigating chronic pelvic and/or vulvovaginal pain conditions and am committed to being as well educated as possible about these conditions, treatments, providers able to treat, and sexual health more generally. My body holds its own stories of chronic pelvic pain which informs why and how I do this work.
ABOUT ME
Hi, I’m Anna. My name is pronounced AW-nuh (sounds like ‘sauna’) AIR-off.
I received an MA in Clinical Psychology from Antioch University, where I specialized in Applied Community Psychology, focusing my studies on health-related self-advocacy and the impact of chronic pelvic pain on people's lives and went on to train in Narrative Therapy at Miracle Mile Community Practice.
I also hold an MFA in Public Practice from Otis College of Art and Design, where I studied with second and third-wave feminist performance artists and Black Lives Matter movement leaders about creative community engagement and organizing.
My work is greatly informed by feminist, queer, and postmodern theories, studied both in the fields of art and performance and in psychology.
I am also trained in EMDR and Pain Reprocessing Therapy.
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pelvic pain
I specialize in working with people navigating chronic pelvic and vulvovaginal pain conditions (like endometriosis, vulvodynia, pelvic floor muscle dysfunction, etc.) and related experiences like, painful sex, disability, infertility, relational or marital challenges, medical trauma, pain & symptom dismissal, work/career navigation, feelings of shame, and health-related self-advocacy.