Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Annamarie Green. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.
Alright, Annamarie thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. Do you think your parents have had a meaningful impact on you and your journey?
My parents are very traditional in many ways – they believe in hard work and taking care of the family. They work conventional jobs and enjoy the consistency and familiarity of their jobs which makes it funny that I am a challenger of old systems and could come from that dynamic. However, my parents are the exact reason I have the confidence and determination to shake up the world and make it a better place. Growing up I had(have) a medical disability and learning disability and my parents particularly my mother fought very hard for me so I could have access to the resources and support that I needed to be successful. In addition to fighting for me she also taught me how to fight for myself. I wasn’t a very aggressive or outspoken child – I wanted to always be kind, especially because I knew what it felt like to have a hard time. However, my mom taught me how to balance being kind and empathetic towards others and also making sure your voice is heard in a room full of noise. Growing up they constantly told me that I might have to work harder than others to get to where I wanted to go because of my disability and fiercely cheered me on along the way.
They taught me that I can withstand more than I think and to let the light of my dreams pull me out of dark tunnels. I have endured a lot of hardships including the death of my partner and father to my daughter, becoming a single mother in college, living with a medical disability, and career changes. My survival and ability to not lose myself in the heaviness of those circumstances originated from the strength, love and support my parents gave to me. Which taught me how to give that to myself. That my belief that it is possible – that good can come from hard situations, it also equipped me to do what I do today and envision a better world. Which many people find it hard to to these days.
As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?
I’m Annamarie Green, an Intuitive Therapist. What does that mean? I am Professional Intuitive, Licensed Therapist & Mom who is on a mission to revolutionize the mental health industry and pioneering new ways to treat, heal, and understand mental health and illness. By combining energy work with psychology and psychotherapy so that individual’s can reach their mental health and personal goals faster and more efficiently. I am also the creator of The Intuitive Therapy Method, Anxiety Languages, and training program Intuitive Mental Health.
I first started this work after realizing that traditional talk therapy was not helping me after the death of my partner and it made me more anxious – thinking something was deeply wrong with me or I would always be this way. It wasn’t until I experienced my first intuitive reading and healing that things started to majorly shift and the progress I had hoped to achieve in 18-20 months of therapy actually happened during and after this intuitive session. I had already been feeling like traditional talk therapy was missing something – I questioned a lot about the field and expectations. As a therapist I was already outside of the norms – most of my clients achieving their goals in under 6 months. So I started learning more about intuitive work and energy healing and slowly started to integrate it with some of my clients that were open and the results were incredible! After that I knew that this needed to be a type of mental health treatment an option everyone should be able to experience so I created a specific formula and process and when I went out on my own it became my signature offer.
I currently offer 3 different ways to work with me – Mental Health Clarity Sessions which is where everyone starts, Intuitive Therapy which is a 12 week 1:1 program, and Courses on subjects relating to mental health and intuitive healing. What’s great about my offers is using this formula I only ever need 12 weeks with someone to have them symptom free and empowered to take on life. This work is especially for individuals who feel talk therapy just hasn’t been working for them or feel that they are stuck with feeling chronically anxious or just surviving. I don’t believe happiness should be as hard as many people feel it is and when we focus on connecting with the soul to lead our healing instead of the symptoms we are able to fast track our healing and have better or easeful and connected life experiences.
When I am not working I enjoy trying to new recipes and baking for friends and family, exploring the world with my daughter and friends, and spending time with my family. I am known to love karaoke and a night of dancing just as much as I love a full day hiking and exploring the outdoors.
Let’s talk about resilience next – do you have a story you can share with us?
My business was birthed from resiliency. It started with a phone call. The phone call that rapidly changed my life forever and sent my spiraling into a darkness so heavy and numbing I lost myself and eventually found myself in it. The phone call I received telling me one of my best friends, partner, and father to our 1.5 year old died by suicide.
It challenged the essence of who I was and wanted in this world. It is what lead to me becoming a therapist in 2020 and sent me exploring the intuitive healing space the same year. It started my journey in therapy and brought me off of the path I was headed to become a lawyer and hopefully a politician. It threw me into the depths of the darkness I had spent my entire life to that point avoiding, running from, covering up with shiny new goals and grit. The fears about myself and trauma from my past would stay hidden if I could just accomplish the things most people considered hard or impossible. After all look at all I was managing to do as a 22 year old single mom still in graduate school.
But there was no negotiating this outcome. No amount of hard work could bring him back. And no amount of dreaming a better outcomes would change his absence from this world. I started therapy because I couldn’t feel anything but fear, I would relive the phone call over and over again whenever I was stressed by something it would bring me back to that night that place. I didn’t want to be here – because the one person I had shared the true depths of being with and let see some of the darkness i felt inside myself and he made me feel more loved for it. He left – he chose to leave me and our daughter.
Therapy was – boring, frusterating, unenlightening. I wasn’t getting any better in fact I was burrowing deeper into shame and loathing. But I was a trained social worker. I knew what to say and how to say it and I had a nack for making other people feel at ease even when I was falling apart. So my therapists always ended up talking more about themselves. Or I would try the activities and I still would get the same results when stressed. I was absent, numb, colder and I wanted more for my daughter – for my life.
I also wanted more for other people struggling in therapy. So when I started understanding how both worlds of psychotherapy and psychology could merge and integrate with intuitive/energetic healing I knew it was something special and groundbreaking. But many people were hesitant, confused, and told me to stop. That starting a business and trying to create a new way of doing things would be too hard and too risky because I was a single parent. And it was hard – I had every reason to quit. My business didn’t start providing for me until 2024 and I first started it part time in 2021/2022. I didn’t have my unique method and approach and business structure until 2023. There were so many times I wanted to quit and stop and just take the “Easy” way out by getting a regular muggle job as I call it. But something inside kept nudging me forward and showing me the next step. I even moved home with my parents for a couple months and decided whether this was truly a path I was being led too.
I experienced a complete lack of income to the point where looking back I don’t know how I made it. Where I had to make $75 at the grocery store last for 2 weeks without my daughter realizing we didn’t have any money and i did. I kept following the nudge because doing anything else but this would drain my soul. Everything in my life prepared me to take this leap and follow this path. Changing the world isn’t always a straight forward path but that world changing, life changing path is a result of residency from your hardest time to just keep living and deciding to participate in life.
Other than training/knowledge, what do you think is most helpful for succeeding in your field?
Beyond the skills for your industry the most skill or quality to have to curiosity and creativity. Curiosity helps keep fears at bay. When we are children we are curious about everything it’s what draws us to learning and growing – it isn’t until we are told something is scary or by learning through experience to be more cautious. Curiosity adds to creativity and our ability to creatively problem solve is the one thing that will help us move forward when we feel stuck and like we are failing. Because with creativity there’s always a potential solution – and it strengthens our ability to see the light at the end of a long tunnel. It also sky rockets our abilities to connect and form relationships. Those two qualities alone are going to be what you need to build and create clients or customers – more than that it will allow you to be innovative about how your serving others and showing up in the world. Asking questions – testing things out. Wondering if there is a better, different, easier way to reach an outcome from a place of looking at others. These two skills are major reasons why I am successful and how I’ve been able to tackle innovating and pioneering a new way of operating and understanding mental health and illness.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://annamariegreen.com
- Instagram: annamariefgreen
Image Credits
Savannah Pool Photography – San Diego, CA