I am Anne De Santis I am a Post Masters Counselor, Certified Life, and Recovery Coach, and a Certified Interventionist.  My degrees, training, and certifications span over 30 years of lived and learned professional and personal experience.

 

Check out my profiles on Psychology Today and LinkedIn for verification of my credentials.

 

I began this work of supporting others through my own personal recovery from substance use since 1991.  My involvement from receiving peer support and guidance had led me to not only deliver that support, earn the proper degrees, certifications and credentials to guide me in a more professional and ethical manner.

 

Growing up as a child of an alcoholic and other dysfunctional behaviors, that left me with the inability to cope and deal with my own emotions and led me deep into my own addiction to drugs and alcohol.  My addiction to substances escalated at the age of 13 and spanned 10 years until I found 12-step recovery.  And obtained total abstinence of all mind and mood altering substances. This modality of recovery also introduced me to therapy, and sense of community and other support groups. 

 

My recovery journey included many, many dark nights of the soul, many mistakes, but more importantly new levels of healing and freedom through implementing the new coping skills I was taught in how to navigate the situations at hand.

 

I have learned with every breakdown, when I did the work, I had significant breakthroughs.  My many breakthroughs blessed me with a clear gift of intuition, that I use with my clients for a more effective healing process.  It is through that gift that I can speak directly to the pain or confusion my client is experiencing and I then can shine a light on it, so they can gain a new perspective and come out of that darkness and hurt darkness.

 

I use this psycho-spiritual approach to guide those I mentor through their dark night of the soul. empowering them to utilize their strengths to move through their breakdowns toward their breakthroughs.

 

I know what it's like to live the pain from the inside out and how to persevere to get to the other side.  I have learned how to speak into the darkness of others from what I learned through mine.

I can recognize the signs and symptoms of unresolved grief, pain, and addiction.  This enables me to hear my clients with compassion, empathy, a non-judgmental ear, and a proper understanding of their pain old and new and what is coming for them in the now.

 

Most importantly, I speak the language of truth-seeking, and healing and recovery.

 

I won't do the work for you, but I will walk alongside you and shine the light on the path toward truth self freedom and authenticity.