Annalise Oatman(She/Her/Hers)

Annalise Oatman is a licensed clinical social worker and author in Los Angeles, California. She specializes in childhood and specific incident trauma, depression, and creative block, especially in female-identified writers and creators.

Annalise's practice, Deeper Well Therapy, offers integrative, intuitive, depth-informed therapy designed to provide healing at a deep level and lasting change, utilizing approaches such as EMDR therapy and Jungian-informed dreamwork.

Annalise recently became the bestselling author of her first book, Heal Your Witch Wound, about ways to overcome the unique challenges women face in living to their full creative and intuitive potential and stepping into their power. The book offers several somatic, depth-informed, journal-based and unabashedly magickal strategies for overcoming fear and expressing what we feel most deeply called to express in our lives.

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: A Transnational Feminist Analysis of Women's Lives in Modern Times. In 2019, she became trained in EMDR, currently considered the gold standard of trauma therapies, and she is currently in the midst of the lengthy process of preparing to train as a Jungian psychoanalyst, and has attended numerous trainings at the Jung Institute. She has been working closely with traumatized populations since 2013 in a variety of settings.