Hello there. I’m Anne, a Home.ologist, committed to helping you create a brand new vision of your home and your life. And if you are recently separated or divorced, this work is especially for you. Your home is a mirror of your life—your hopes, dreams, stuck places, projections, health, passions, and blind spots. Home.ology recognizes that you can move through impasses in life by working directly with your home.
Home.ology helps you explore how the way you decorate your home reflects how you express yourself in life, how the way you take care of your home reflects your own health, how the way you use your home reflects your passions and values, and how the way you share your home reflects how you “do” relationships. The Home.ology system is built from years of exploring, studying, and working with my own home and the homes of many clients.
Want to know how a Home.ologist is made? Read on!
I’ve always been a Home.ologist. As a child, I drew floor plans of houses on graph paper my Dad would bring home from work. My houses were always elaborate designs and almost always included indoor swimming pools. I used to collect magazine images of furniture and bedrooms that I loved and still have this old blue spiral notebook. The cover page proudly states: “Anne’s Collection of Neat Room Things.” My sister and I saved up our allowance and went in together to buy a trundle day bed for the bedroom we shared. And our bedroom! We spent so many hours arranging, rearranging, and decorating this room. Even then, I’m pretty sure I had a sense that our homes held deep meaning.
I worked as an Occupational Therapist for six years, most of which was spent working with patients in their home environment. I visited hundreds of homes during this time. In all of them, from the super luxurious to the incredibly humble, it was clear to me how a home reflects both the conscious and unconscious aspects of the people who live in it.
I became a Feng Shui Consultant after studying Feng Shui at the Western School of Feng Shui in San Diego, California. As a Feng Shui consultant, I worked with private residences, non-profit organizations, privately owned businesses, and government offices. In all of these environments, I discovered that the place where a person lives or works is deeply reflective of the totality of their life. The more I worked as a Feng Shui consultant, the more I realized that the model of Feng Shui consulting I practiced (spending several hours in a person’s home) wasn’t enough to create lasting change. Deep psychological and emotional material often arose when I worked with an individual. In order to make the work meaningful, sustainable, and deep, I knew I needed an advanced degree in Psychology and that I needed to find a new way of working with people and their relationship to their home.
I then became a Psychotherapist. I received a Master’s Degree in Somatic Counseling Psychology from Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado and a certificate in Gestalt Psychotherapy from the Gestalt Therapy Training Center of Washington, D.C. I worked as a Psychotherapist for 6 years at the Boston Institute for Psychotherapy, three of those years as the Director of the School Based Counseling Program. I then started a private psychotherapy practice out of my home and began exploring how to bring my psychotherapy and Feng Shui training together to help people transform the psychology of their homes.
And thus, mixing academic training with a lifelong pull towards the deeper meaning of home, a Home.ologist is made. I know homes. I love homes. I study homes. I am infinitely curious about how people express themselves in their home environment.
And want to know some favorite things in my home? My husband and my little baby girl are my very favorites! I also love all the friends and family who come through our doors and stay a while. I love the big white fluffy rug on the living room floor (best stretching spot in the house). Also my “Fire Queen” batik from Argentina, the framed house needlepoints that my Grandmother made when she was a small girl, my collection of shark teeth and sea glass I found along the shores of the Potomac River in Maryland, and several small wooden boxes my Dad gave me when I was a girl.
