Anne Weaver, MA, LMHC, ABD

I decided to become a therapist after experiencing major depression in my thirties. While I was lucky to have found a mental health clinician during that time who truly believed in me and in my ability to recover from the depression, I also encountered other clinicians whose pathology-based assertions and prognoses left me feeling disrespected and demoralized. I chose to enter graduate school in order to provide therapeutic services to others that were based on mutual respect and genuine self-regard so that those in crisis might be able to benefit from an approach to mental health issues that was non-pathologizing and recovery oriented.