Hello:
My name is Anne Uemura. I have negotiated each decade of midlife, experiencing many of the transitions that this website focuses on. And for twenty-five years I practiced as a psychotherapist-healer-life coach.
My background
You have the opportunity to be working with a life coach who has been focused on understanding transformation and change for three decades. After completing my pre-doctorial studies at the University of Maine, I studied as a pre-doctoral fellow at UC-San Francisco’s Langley Porter Institute with its traditional psychodynamic background. I became fascinated with what enabled people to free themselves from their pain and struggles.
As a post-doctoral fellow in UC-Berkeley’s Department of Psychiatry and then as a staff psychologist, I worked with hundreds of students in groups, in workshops and individually. The diversity of students, the various challenges of transition they were facing, the sheer numbers of people I worked with and the years of experience gave birth to a seasoned resourceful life coach.
Eclectic and diverse training
You, as each person I see, present a unique opportunity. It is to discover what for you is the first and next steps that will free you from your past. Because of my own life and work experience, my training and studies, you have available the resources of what diverse teachers and systems have taught me about how we change for the better.
I became a registered Bach flower practitioner, using the energy of flowers to balance the personality. Brian Weiss among other teachers trained me on past-life regression to bring forth forgotten material that is relevant to current issues. My Barbara Brennan School of Healing training immersed me in a holistic understanding of who we are.
As a result of all this training, I’ve found that it is essential to remember all dimensions of us on any issue: spiritual, mental, emotional and physical.
Every dimension of you provides information about where you are now and who you are. When you become aware of what is happening for you as a thinker, as a feeler, as a spirit and as a physical being you will gain the keys to the creation of your life as you want it.
Importance and power of beliefs
Life coaching, with its uplifting paradigm, adds to and grounds what I do. Recent training with Psych-K emphasizes the basic orientation of my practice: changing beliefs from limiting to positive is essential for healing and growth . As the Upanishads reads:
“Let one therefore keep the mind pure, for what a man thinks, that he becomes.”
One of my spiritual teachers, Barbara Johnson, has impressed upon me the power of awareness: a gift you will appreciate developing. Another, Cristhal Bennett has inspired me about how much more I can be: and this is my intention for you.
My being in a yearlong coaching program with Bob Proctor attests to my belief in coaching: coaching is essential to make meaningful progress in fulfilling our unique life purpose. I walk the walk also.
I welcome the opportunity to accompany you on this midlife transition path as my teachers/healers/coaches have walked with me.
The gift of the two-year-old
One last thing I would like to leave you with. You could not help noticing the photo above. It is of my granddaughter Alana and me. She is now two and something. What spirit she has! She’s curious, willful and undaunted, sparkling, full of delight and play. Hopefully you have been thrilled by your contact with young children like her.
The word “cannot” is not in her vocabulary. She doesn’t say or act as if she understands “cannot”. But too many of us do. We have lost the spirit of the two-year-old. But that’s another story (found in my ebook*). Alana and young beings like her remind us of who we once were. Our task in life is to reclaim who we are deep inside. My role is to facilitate that process.
I hold Alana with delight, appreciation and love. If you choose to work with me, it is my intention to be with you in the same manner, honoring and respecting the uniqueness of you.
Ways we can work together
You are encouraged to learn more about what I offer by reading the linked pages about life coaching, the free tele-seminar, my e-book and the seminar series. Included on those pages are comments of people that I worked with.
I hope you will learn for yourself how working with me can enrich your life.
Warmest regards,
Anne