ABOUT ANNA HUFF, PHD

MY PATH

Meditation came to me before psychology did. I started meditating when I was a young child, not because anyone taught me, but because something in me already knew. That early connection has been the through-line of my life. In my thirties I began exploring various spiritual traditions more seriously, and four years ago I settled into a particular tradition. My orientation has been shaped most deeply by my own meditation practice and by my study of esoteric-based frameworks.

I came to psychology wanting to understand the spiritual depths of being human, how we come to truly know and be ourselves in this world. What I found, at first, was a field largely focused on the construct of the mind. As I expanded into depth psychology, EMDR, and NeuroAffective Touch, the field began opening for me, and yet, even then, something still felt limited by our own internal constructs, as if we were working from within the maze. Einstein said it nicely, “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” And yet, I felt psychology was doing exactly that with people, and I often found myself frustrated and wanting more from my own field.

And then, I stepped into DBR. DBR has provided me with something that I sometimes reference as “magical.” While also acknowledging, my field would prefer I not address any method as such. It is an approach that when I started in this field, I had hoped we could provide to people. And now, it’s available. DBR has a way of bypassing the mind, unwinding the frameworks of who we thought we were, and connecting us with our authentic selves, which sometimes is not who we thought we were at all. Most of all, this approach has given me and others back a life they never fully understood they could have, yet deeply longed for.

What I have come to is this: our psychology is a roadmap back to ourselves. It is not who we are. It is what we are working to live through rather than identify with. That distinction is at the center of how I work.

I started my private practice in 2017. Before this, I worked in various settings, such as a group practice with clients in the corporate arena, a group practice doing psychological evaluations with children and adults, and a depth-focused internship. I chose private practice, because I wanted the freedom to be openly myself with clients, which is, in my experience, what allows me to actually help.

My own work, in facing what is hard, sitting with depths that have at times felt unfathomable, working with ancestral patterns, and learning to live inside my own energetic structure, has shaped how I sit with the people who come to see me.

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