Make lasting changes in any area of your life through nurturing sessions that connect you with your personal vision and how to make it happen. Includes practical strategies as well as emotional processing, all in a nonjudgmental setting. Coaching is a client-led, present-centered process — we look at where you are now, where you’d like to be, and how to get there.

Why choose Life Coaching? Annie can assist you to:

• Make life-enhancing changes
• Create balance
• Manage fear, anger and stress better
• Create positive self-esteem
• Feel more empowered
• Release barriers to change
• Develop support networks
• Become more assertive
• Live fully, even in illness
• Improve decision-making
• Find joy and meaning
• Connect with nature
• Develop a skillful relationship with your emotions
• Deepen compassion for yourself and others

Annie has trained in Empowerment Facilitation, Mind-Body Integration, Bioenergetics, Body Psychology, Spiritual Direction, Vipassana Meditation, Unconditional Presence, Centering Prayer, Chakra Healing, Therapeutic Massage, Kripalu Yoga, Tai Chi, Qi Gong and various other healing modalities. She has synthesized the best of these methods into her own coaching model, called Embodied Life Coaching.

Embodied Life Coaching is a unique form of growth work because it helps you change the root causes of feeling stuck from a positive, present-centered place in yourself. During your sessions, we'll create empowering shifts in how you view yourself and your world, your beliefs, and your ability to follow through to achieve your goals. This work is client-led, so you're never rushed, and it's gentle, so you feel more vitality and enthusiasm for the change process right away. Sessions may include of talking, movement exercises, processing feelings, brainstorming ideas, and moments of quiet reflection.

Sessions are about 60-75 minutes in length and can be done by phone ($65) or in person in State College ($75) or Coburn ($65).  (All financial concerns are addressed, so please inquire if this is an issue for you.) To learn if Life Coaching is right for you, or to schedule an appointment, email Anne at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or call her at 814 349-4362.

Spiritual Direction sessions are about an hour in length and may consist of:

• quiet reflection/meditation/prayer time
• time for you to reflect on and share about your spiritual life and your life in general
• gentle discernment questions

Spiritual life — what a broad and personal topic! Why choose Spiritual Direction?

You might come to Spiritual Direction with Annie to:

• Reflect on your relationship with spirit /God/the Divine in your day-to-day life
• Help navigate a difficult time or situation with grace and equanimity
• Connect with your life mission and purpose
• Slow down and refocus your life on your values and priorities
• Feel more connected to the source of life and the present moment
• Learn to meditate

Spiritual Direction is a gentle time with a friend — one who believes in your innate goodness and unique beauty. Together, we let Spirit in on the conversation and enjoy the grace that flows from loving presence. This is a client-led process, with lots of ease and spaciousness. No specific religious beliefs or affiliation is necessary.

In addition to training in empowerment, meditation, yoga, and Centering Prayer, Annie completed a two year training program in Spiritual Direction and Contemplative Prayer at Oasis Ministries for Spiritual Development.

Sessions are about one hour in length and can be done by phone ($65) or in person in State College ($75) or Coburn ($65).  (All financial concerns are addressed, so please inquire if this is an issue for you.) To learn if Spiritual Direction is right for you, or to schedule an appointment, email Annie at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or call her at 814 349-4362.

From visioning business start ups to taking your current business to the next level, these sessions support growing your small business in ways that are balanced and life affirming. Annie shares her knowledge and experience, gained through a successful private practice in massage, yoga teaching, coaching and spiritual direction, as well as founding and directing the Mt. Nittany Institute of Natural Health for 15 years.