Annalise Oatman(She/Her/Hers)

Annalise Oatman is a licensed clinical social worker and author in Hudson Valley, NY who is licensed to serve clients remotely throughout California. She specializes in holistic approaches to childhood trauma and specific incident trauma, anxiety, chronic stress, life transition and creative block, especially in female-identified writers and creators.

Annalise's practice, Deeper Well Therapy, offers holistic, intuitive, depth-informed therapy designed to provide healing at a deep level and lasting change, utilizing approaches such as somatic EMDR therapy, Jungian-informed dreamwork, ketamine-assisted psychotherapy, and the basic principles of Somatic Experiencing therapy. The interventions she uses are also informed by her devoted visual art and expressive writing practice of many years, and by music and movement therapy approaches.

Annalise is the bestselling author of Heal Your Witch Wound, a self-help book about overcoming the unique challenges women face in living to their full creative and intuitive potential and stepping into their power. The book offers somatic, depth-informed, and expressive writing-based strategies for overcoming fear and expressing what we feel most deeply called to express in our lives. Annalise's poetry has been published by Raw Motherhood.

Annalise completed an Oxbridge Masters in Philosophy at Trinity College Dublin in 2010 and graduated from USC's Masters in Social Work program in 2015 on the Dean's List, having one of her essays published as a chapter in an Oxford University Press textbook, Women's Journey to Empowerment in the 21st Century. In 2019, she became trained in EMDR, the gold standard of trauma therapies, and in 2024 she became certified as a Psychedelic Therapy practitioner by Integrative Psychiatry Institute. She has studied dreamwork at the Jung Institute and the shamanism of the Peruvian jungle and Andes. She is currently becoming trained in Somatic Experiencing, and has been working closely with traumatized populations since 2013.