Hello, I am Ana!
I healed from bipolar disorder. Doctors told me that wasn't possible. I did it anyway.
I know the small, careful voice inside you that is bracing for the catch, the asterisk, the "well, actually." I felt that too. For years I softened the claim because the world kept pushing back.
But it's true. I healed. And I have spent the years since helping other women do the same.
What changed everything.
I was in a hospital bed at the psychiatric ward in 2006, groggy, dizzy, nauseated, struggling to hold a clear thought when I saw it. My mother's life flashing in front of me. Decades of suffering due to bipolar disorder, suicidal behavior, depression and anxiety. A future I could already see myself walking into.
And I made a decision. A real one, the kind that costs you something. I was not going to end up there.
What followed was not easy. I had to dismantle an entire belief system, the one that said bipolar disorder was permanent, chemical, managed but never cured. I had to grieve the stories before I could move on. I had to rebuild from the inside out, through everything medicine said wouldn't work, until I was standing on the other side of something I was told was impossible.
The science I studied to understand what I lived.
Healing myself was one thing. Understanding why it worked, and building a method that could work for other women, required something more. I spent years going deep into the research and modalities that explain what is actually happening when someone heals from the inside out.
My work is grounded in:
Neuroplasticity — the brain’s capacity to rewire which is the biological basis for everything I believe healing makes possible, and mainly memory strengthening and the ability to adapt to new situations, environments and experiences
Neuroscience — understanding how mood, thought, and behavior are shaped by the brain and the nervous system, and how to shift them
Polyvagal theory — how the nervous system drives our emotional states, and how to work with it rather than against it
Attachment theory — how we create an unconcious blueprint for trust, safety, intimacy, and self-worth that shapes how we relate to ourselves and with others as adults, and how those patterns can be updated
Trauma — the internal psychological and physical wound that develops as. result of distressing experiences, often causing disconnection form oneself
IFS (Internal Family Systems) and Somatic therapy — building a relationship with the parts of yourself that formed around the pain, and helping them find safety so healing becomes possible
I bring all of this to every client, not as a rigid framework, but as a deep toolkit I draw from depending on what each woman needs. The lived experience tells me what is possible. The science tells me how to get there.
Who I work with.
I work with women who have tried. Medication, therapy, support groups, the whole landscape. And who have found that every option, as good as it is, still operates inside the same premise: that bipolar is something to be managed, not healed from.
I work with women who are tired. Not hopeless, tired. There is still a part of them that wants to believe something different is possible. They just need proof that it actually is.
I work with women who are watching their lives organize themselves around a diagnosis, and who want to live a life where their diagnosis does not come first.
If that sounds like you, let’s talk.
You don't need another framework for surviving this. You need proof that someone actually got through.
I am that proof. And I would love to be the beginning of yours.