Ann, founder and Director of the Balancing Life Project™, has been a psychotherapist for 35 years. She holds certificates in the Adult Attachment Interview, Object Relations, Treatment of Trauma, Human Sexuality and Group Psychotherapy. She has studied at several psychoanalytic institutes and with many of the world’s leading psychotherapists (including Christopher Bollas, Mary Main & Erik Hesse, Allan Schore, Pat Ogden, Hedda Bolgar and David & Jill Scharf) and at the Sorbonne University in Paris, France. She began her career as a core staff member for eight years in a family treatment program at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Thalians Community Mental Health Center. Since that time she has been in private practice and a consultant to organizations, schools and clinics (including Menninger Clinic), taught at several universities (UCLA, USC, Loyola Marymount, Antioch), colleges and a psychoanalytic institute. She has been a keynote speaker and presenter at numerous scientific state, national and international conferences and published “The Psychoneurobiology of the Clinical Moment”. Ann’s private practice in West Los Angeles, CA is composed of individuals, couples and groups. Her areas of greatest interest and specialization include emotional development, resiliency, intimacy, food addiction, applied psychoanalysis – and amateur giant slalom ski racing.