voices of transformation
Real stories from our community—reflections of healing, resilience, and the sacred journey home to self.
"Sophie made me feel safe and loved while I looked at the things inside me that didn't make me feel safe and loved. What a gift she has been for me! Her love, strength, courage, and above all of that, her gentle guidance was unmatched.
I'm eternally grateful and will definitely be working with her to continue to integrate all of myself knowing that she will hold me accountable lovingly and help me to look at, and rebuild my foundation. Stronger, gracefully and with the same love that I give to my children. I'm so grateful for her courage and grace. She is a gift to anyone that wants to do this work."
PAMELA, RETIRED MILITARY
"Alexandra immediately put me at ease with her steady confidence and healing presence. Her guidance during the entire scope of our work together has allowed me to fully open up to the experience and put context into how I weave this magic into my every-day life to make lasting changes. Alexandra is simply the best and I will refer her to anyone considering transformational work."
PAUL BARNHART, CEO, WESTHOFF COMPANIES
"My experience with Anna and Awakening Hearts was truly transformative for me. Everything was done with such care, love and attention to detail. I felt 100% safe and supported throughout my therapy experience. The therapy gave me an opportunity to feel truth and bliss in a way I hadn’t experienced before. These feelings have lasted in the following weeks and I feel deeply that it has changed my life course for the better."
STEVEN COUFAL, WRITER AND MARKETING EXECUTIVE
"Sophie's Rogerian style of being with me and holding me in unconditional positive regard was perfect. She really took a step back and let my own Self energy be my therapist, which was exactly what happened. Her ability to communicate about archetypal energies and transpersonal issues that arose were incredibly helpful. Her awareness of parts work and the IFS model was especially helpful when I experienced a protector backlash as part of the comedown. She helped me to identify what was happening, and we were able to soften the impact of that."
RAVEN
"Alexandra has been an inspiring and uplifting guide at a critical juncture in my life and am deeply grateful for the work we have done together. Her highly skilled, emotionally attuned, deeply insightful, and compassionately collaborative approach offers a provision of emotional safety unlike anything I have ever experienced in three decades of my previous personal work.
As an experienced and well-trained practitioner of psychotherapy, my expectations were high and needs specific as I entered into my work with Alexandra. Her uniquely personal and deeply empathic approach to her work greatly exceeded my expectations and facilitated an expansive, integrative, and powerful growth experience for me. I’ve come away from our work with a peaceful sense of well-being, increased insight, and integrative emotional capacity. This increased ability to mindfully weave together decades of previous work I had done in traditional talk psychotherapy with new breakthroughs made with Alexandra has given me a more trusting relationship with myself and my own inner wisdom.
Of all of the remarkable gifts Alexandra brings to her important and groundbreaking work, her own spiritually centered and peaceful, compassionate demeanor mirrors back the deep and abiding respect she has in her heart, mind, & soul for each one of our personal journeys. The reverence and respect present in her work and emanating from her very being is woven together with her in-depth training and extensive levels of knowledge and experience to create an environment filled with safety, openness, and connection. Her beautiful ability to immerse in my history and background as well as my here-and-now daily struggles, and to listen so deeply to my conscious dilemmas, created a generously safe space for us to be curious about my unconscious patterns and blind spots.
With deep gratitude and immense respect, I highly recommend Alexandra and her skilled and compassionate work to anyone seeking a powerful and transformative experience in a safe and empathic environment."
MARKI MCMILLAN, PHD, LCSW
"Anna made our ceremony incredibly beautiful - from her thoughtful touches when building the alter, to her soothing voice and demeanor, she ensured we always felt at ease. The meditation at the beginning of the ceremony was absolutely gorgeous and her energy was so reassuring throughout. We could not be more grateful she was the person to experience this with us. I feel like the entire process is thoughtful and seamless. We are so happy we did it and feel it was such an incredible gift to us both. I would highly recommend."
MICHELLE
"Alexandra helped me to navigate my anxiety and use it to learn more about my psyche. Together, we talked through experiences that have shaped my assumptions, mistrust, and fears–allowing me to separate from the past and rethink the present in healthier ways. In the three months since our work together, I’ve held onto the lessons Alexandra helped me to learn. As a result, my relationship with my now-husband has changed drastically, along with my relationship with my own mind. I look forward to working with Alexandra again in the future to continue this personal growth journey."
ELENA SCHMIDT, FOUNDER, FLOW CONTENT
"Working with Alexandra is like coming home. She uses such compassion as she cuts through everything you’ve ever known to release core wounds with grace. I have been exploring shadow work of all modalities for decades, hoping to remember who I am at the core of my being without all of the noise, the trauma, the dogma. I would often see glimpses, and then lose hope. However, my intensive sessions with Alexandra have been transformational in a way that I have never experienced before. I come away from our sessions so inspired and full of love and knowing; deepening my relationship to myself. She holds such a beautiful space, and I know that all she wants for me is a life of joy and love and embracing my own power."
LYNN MILLER, CONSULTANT
"I've discovered it's a wonderful thing to finally go to sleep at night with a smile on my face. In our intensive sessions, Alexandra guided me to heal from so much past trauma. She helped me find peace through forgiving myself and others. In her presence I felt so safe, so supported, and so capable within myself that I could achieve anything. As Alexandra helped me expand my emotional space, my relationship with my daughter has grown into something wonderful.
I have a renewed confidence and trust in myself that I'd long forgotten. Alexandra will always be a part of my spirit."
JAMES C. STONE, PHD
“Anna was so kind. She was so compassionate and non-judgmental. I also liked how she laughed with me at times. It was such a beautiful experience. Full of so much sadness but also getting to smile and laugh with Anna gave me moments of light. I just felt very at ease with her, and I never felt self-conscious. During the ceremony she was so attentive to me. She handed me tissues before I even had to ask for them, she held my hand when I asked, she rested her hand on my back during harder times, she asked me insightful question that helped me dig deeper into what was appearing for me, and when I needed it she gave me such powerful perspectives that are helping me reframe how I view myself and where I belong in this world. I honestly can’t say enough about how wonderful this experience was for me. I’m very grateful for Anna.”
SAMANTHA C.
“I am so glad that Anna was the facilitator for my ceremony. Her presence was so calming and I really loved how spiritual the ceremony felt. I loved the blessings and meditations she began and ended the ceremony with and truly feel she has a gift for helping people in this way. She was so patient with me when I was laying there not saying anything at first, and quietly spoke to me to check in. Once the medicines really started working she was so gentle when she did talk with me, to give me a sip of water or ask me to maybe further clarify something I had just said. I really felt she was there for me if I needed her, but if not, she was silently by my side while I talked and talked.”
LYNNE B, ARTIST