About | Coach Annie

Anne De Santis

M.A., CLC, NCIP, CPRS

Master's of Art in Counseling, Montclair State University
Certified Life Coach, Certified Life Coach Institute
National Certified Intervention Professional- The Addictions Academy
Certified Peer Recovery Specialist- Connecticut Community for Addiction Recovery CCAR

My Story

My name is Anne De Santis I am a Post Masters Level Counselor and a Certified Interventionist, Life, and Recovery Coach. My training, certifications, experience, and credentials span over 30 years of lived and learned experience.

I have listed all my degrees and certifications below, and you can also check me out on Psychology Today and LinkedIn for verification of my credentials.

I began this work of supporting others in my early recovery in 1991. My journey with Peer Support, guidance, and healing has led me to not only do the same but earn credentials to guide me in a more professional and ethical manner.

My journey through my childhood of growing up as a child of an alcoholic and dysfunction, and the inability to cope and deal with my own emotions, led me deep into my addiction to drugs and alcohol. The years of addiction began at the age of 13 and spanned 10 years until I found peer support, 12-step recovery, abstinence and therapy, and other support groups.

My journey in recovery has included many, many dark nights of the soul, many breakdowns, many mistakes, but also many breakthroughs and healing.

I have learned with every breakdown. If you do the work, you will have a breakthrough. My major breakthroughs have blessed me with a clear-intuitive gift that I share with my clients. It is a blessing to speak through that gift directly to their pain and shine a light on it so that it can come out from the darkness.

I use a psycho-spiritual approach to guide those I mentor through their dark night of the soul, through their breakdowns toward a breakthrough.

I know what it's like to live the pain from the inside out and how to persevere to get to the other side. I know how to speak to the darkness for others because I learned and was supported through mine.

I speak the language of unresolved grief, pain, and addiction. This enables me to hear my clients with compassion, empathy, a non-judgmental ear, and a proper understanding of their pain and what is coming for them.

BUT more importantly, I speak the language of recovery, truth-seeking, and healing.

I won't do the work for you, but I will walk alongside you and shine the light on your path.

what my clients are saying?

Claire S., NJ

When I come away from a session with Anne I feel empowered to change the things that haven't worked for me in the past. She always gives me concrete ideas to think about and/or practice.

Mary B., NJ

Anne is empathetic, caring, and supportive, She cares about everyone's well being and taps into a person's resiliency and strengths. She is truly one of a kind.

Laura M., NJ

Anne and I totally click on a different level, emotionally and spiritually. She totally gets me and I feel completely safe being myself and vulnerable with her. I did not feel that way with any other counselor.