About Annalise Evenson

Hi, I'm Annalise!

If you are a coach who wants to deepen and enrich your practice and your clients’ experience, you’re in the right place! I cannot think of anything more rewarding than to share the Body-Centered Coaching Method™ with you. It will deepen your coaching presence and enhance your skillset. I have been training and mentoring coaches for over 12 years.

If you are looking for the right coach, and are ready to break with the past, re-imagine the life you want, and embrace who you are now, you’re in the right place! I have been successfully coaching for over 20 years with a focus on co-creating your best life.

As your coach, my role is to help you break through barriers and achieve the life you want NOW.  I have been exploring and integrating the power of embodied awareness in coaching since 2000. What I know is that it can facilitate the change you want faster and lead to sustainable results.

Today, thanks to so many exciting advances in neuroscience and the science of how people change, embodied coaching stands out as evidence-based, firmly founded in the neuroscience of change, and highly effective. 

         

My Background:

I began as a staff psychologist in Community Mental Health in Boston Massachusetts during the height of the humanistic movement in psychology and its innovative impact on therapy. I learned Gestalt therapy techniques focused on the interconnectedness of an individual's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. I came away with a deep appreciation for the resilience of the human spirit. Later I pursued an MBA and joined the early ranks of women intent on entering the corporate world and breaking through the glass ceiling. I led teams developing new businesses and implementing leading-edge technologies at Merrill Lynch, Security Pacific, and Citigroup, and in the public sector as the Deputy Director of New Technology, NYC Human Resources Administration. I learned the power of having a vision, perseverance in the face of obstacles, eliciting strengths in others, and challenging myself.

After several years, I embarked on a new personal phase of interpersonal exploration that included experiential group process at Omega Institute, Esalen Institute, and Grof Transpersonal Training - Holotropic Breathwork™. And then, I hit a wall. I had unconsciously crept into a life of total imbalance that was taking a significant toll on my joy, perspective, relationships and even my health. I realized that the work I was doing, just was not working for me anymore. While considering ‘what’s next’ I was introduced to coaching. It connected all the dots of my professional and personal journey. I immersed myself in coaching training and several body-centered modalities (Reiki, reflexology, cranial-sacral balancing, Touch for Health™ applied kinesiology, Emotional Freedom Technique, Indigenous apprenticeships with Indigenous teachers from Ecuador, Peru, and Brazil). Collectively these experiences taught me what opens the door to self-awareness, and the value of risking what is unknown and often uncomfortable for the sake of being fully alive and creating one’s best life. Today I draw upon all my experiences and different avenues of learning – and continue to grow and learn.

My Credentials:

Coach Trainer and Mentor Coach:

• Current faculty member of Real Balance Global Wellness Services, Inc. and the Wellness Coach Training Institute
• Previous adjunct faculty for Advanced Coaching with the California Institute of Integrative Studies (CIIS)
• Mentor Coaching for ICF ACC coaches and coaches preparing for ICF ACC credential and ICF & NBC-HWC group coaches

Certifications:

• ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC) and registered ICF Mentor Coach
• Certified Professional Co-Active® Coach (CPCC) and a graduate of the CTI Co-Active Space™ 10-month Leadership Program
• Certified Body-Centered Coach (CBCC)
• Certified Trauma-Informed Coach (TICC) with Traumainformedcoaching.com facilitated by Moving the Humans Spirit (MTHS)
• Narrative Coach™ Enhanced Practitioner
• Nationally Board-Certified Health & Wellness Coach (NBC-HWC)

Other:

• Emotional Freedom Technique
• Mindfulness training with the New York Insight Center & Insight LA
• Energetic Cranial Sacral Balancing Certification
• ARCB (American Reflexology Certification Board) certified reflexologist
• Touch for Health™ Applied Kinesiology Certification
• Karuna® & Usui Reiki Master/Teacher Certification
• Grof Transpersonal training in Holotropic Breathwork™
• Ordained Interfaith Minister

Education

• Tufts University, Medford, MA
  • MA Counseling
  • BA Philosophy & Education
• Simmons College Graduate School of Management, Boston, MA - MBA
• Holos University Graduate Seminary – Coursework in Integrative Healthcare