About
About Me
Hello, I’m Anna (she/her). I was born in the UK and now live in Sweden with my partner and our lively little dog.
For the past twenty years I’ve worked in marketing and product leadership, alongside a deep personal exploration of healing and inner growth. Psychosynthesis and Internal Family Systems (IFS) have profoundly reshaped how I relate to myself, to others, and to the natural world. Today, I balance my part-time therapeutic practice with my ongoing work in product leadership and coaching.
Beyond work, I find joy in life’s quieter and wilder moments: hiking and foraging in the forests, growing things in the garden, learning about local wildlife, practicing yin yoga, and trying hard to resist my book-collecting urges. At home, much of my daily joy comes from cooking and relaxing with my partner, and giggling at our dog’s ongoing quest for mischief and treats!
I follow an animistic spiritual path, and I aim to create a therapeutic space that honours and welcomes all identities, cultures, belief systems, neurotypes, and ways of being.
As a cisgender woman of mixed white ancestry (English, Scottish, and Irish), I strive to remain aware of how my own background and positionality shape the space between myself, and those I work with. I am committed to ongoing reflection, learning, and practice in service of justice, inclusion, and a deeper sense of connection to the whole web of life.
Training & Qualifications
My core training as a therapist is in Psychosynthesis, an integrative and psychospiritual approach to psychotherapy established in the 1930s by Roberto Assagioli (1888–1974). He was an Italian psychiatrist who was trained under Sigmund Freud, and later became a contemporary of C.G. Jung. Assagioli incorporated wisdom from a diverse range of Western and Eastern approaches to healing, including raja yoga, non-dualism, psychoanalysis, Jungian dreamwork, art therapy, and Gestalt techniques for working with parts.
Alongside this, I am Level 3 trained in Internal Family Systems (IFS), a modality often described as a way to build secure attachment within yourself, by getting to know and heal the parts of you that hold trauma from the past. I’ve found it interplays beautifully with Psychosynthesis.
My approach is trauma-informed, supported by additional training in safety and stabilisation of the nervous system, and somatic healing practices. I am also a certified Mental Health First Aider.
I am committed to ongoing professional development and regularly attend my own personal therapy, supervision, further trainings, and peer groups.
Core Training
Introduction to Counselling Skills • The Minster Centre, London (UK)
Diploma in Psychosynthesis Counselling (ongoing) • Institute of Psychosynthesis, London (UK)
MA in Psychosynthesis Psychology (ongoing) • Middlesex University in partnership with the Institute of Psychosynthesis, London (UK)
Internal Family Systems Level 1 • IFS UK with Liz Martins and Kathy Cox
Internal Family Systems Level 2, Deepening and Expanding • IFS UK with Osnat Arbel
Internal Family Systems Level 3 • IFS Portugal with Einat Bronstein and Alexia Rothman
Coherence Therapy Level 1 • Coherence Psychology Institute
Additional Training & Workshops
Drawing into Self, Foundation 1 • Workshop in IFS Art Therapy with Ruth Culver
Using IFS Therapy with Autistic Clients • Sarah Bergenfield
Safety & Stabilisation • The Complex Trauma Institute (CTI), UK
Somatic Healing Certification accredited by the Yoga Alliance and IAYT
Mental Health First Aid • MHFA England
Legalities
I am globally insured (excluding the USA and Canada) to practice counselling with adults over the age of 18 by Foyht Insurance.
I am a trainee member of the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) and I am also a member of the Association of Psychospiritual Practitioners (APP), which means I abide by their ethical frameworks, and I am subject to their professional conduct procedures.
All client data is protected under GDPR law in both the UK and EU according to the Privacy Policy.
Inner Grove AB is F-Tax approved. I am regrettably unable to accept clients via insurance programs at this time.