Anne Schanz, Ph.D., LPC
- Psychotherapy for individuals, family and group sessions.
- Combined Therapy Program - using the finest combination of neuroplasticity, compassion and cognitive intervention to help couples and individuals live life fully.
- Conscious Living Program - a dynamic group process to quickly interrupt self-defeating patterns and establish new pathways of self-trust and fulfillment.
Dr. Schanz's Journey into Holistic Health
I came to the counseling profession after a fulfilling career in corporate America. Wanting to dedicate my life to diminishing the toll that stress was taking on my friends
and neighbors, I went back to school. I received my Ph.D. in counseling from the University of North Texas and began my private practice in North Dallas in 1994. Initially I could only
offer traditional psychotherapy in individual, couple and group therapy formats, because that was what I knew. Those years were an incredible learning laboratory that allowed me to
deepen my understanding psychopathology from the modern western medical approach.
Having been born of military parents stationed in the Panama Canal Zone and traveled extensively around the world, I was culturally initiated into global perspectives on health, healing and family dynamics. Seeing both the strengths and weaknesses of western cognitive/behavioral methods and medications, I continued to search for better solutions.
In 2003, my own health crisis changed my personal and professional life forever. Having been told that I had an incurable, degenerative kidney disease that would eventually destroy my kidneys, I went searching for alternative solutions. Through the unexpected serendipity that we all experience when in crisis, I found an energy treatment called BodyTalktm. Within three months of this therapy, my lab results had improved to almost normal ranges. Within six months my body was healed and my clinical studies verified the cure.
After this miraculous result, I began to study BodyTalktm and energy healing so that I could provide the same healing to my clients. During my studies of energy treatments, I discovered another invaluable tool called Thought Field Therapy. Astoundingly, this modality had been around for twenty years! It was "miraculously" effective for treating psychological problems (80% of the time), yet had I never heard of it! Of course, I added this to my specialties.
Next came my introduction to yoga science, Ayurveda and the science of breath. Here I found the scientific basis for all of the energy healing techniques that I had mastered. Just as the river merges into the ocean, all my therapies merged into the ocean of Ayurveda. No longer could I define my work by trademarked names, for as mighty and wonderful as they are in isolation, when they are combined in systematic order, their sum is much more powerful than any single part/therapy.
To me, Ayurveda is the mother of integrative medicine and my Combined Therapy Program is my personal culmination of all that I have learned. I am so grateful to all of my instructors and professors who greatly contributed key parts to my lifelong quest as a therapist and counselor.
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