Finding your way back to connection

Therapy partnered with nature and horses to help you integrate, regulate and relate

Hi, I’m Anna.

I support people navigating profound life transitions and relational disconnection.

If sitting in a quiet office makes your system feel more stressed than supported, you aren’t doing it wrong—you might just need a different environment.

I work with individuals who feel chronically overstimulated and haven’t found relief in traditional talk therapy. By moving outdoors and working alongside horses, we take the pressure off. This isn't just about 'venting'; it’s about providing the physical and emotional conditions for your nervous system to find new, more supportive patterns. Whether you are navigating a major identity shift or deep-seated burnout, we move at a pace that honors your capacity, creating a path forward that feels genuinely restorative.

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Areas of Support

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Chronic Overstimulation & Burnout

Focus: Nervous system regulation, sensory processing, and discovering what works for your brain.

Disenfranchised Grief & Identity Shifts

Focus: Life after estrangement, career/lifestyle pivots, pregnancy loss, and the "quiet" grief of losing your former self.

Neuro-Curious &
System Support

Focus: For those who suspect their brain works differently and need an environment that doesn't demand eye contact or forced stillness.

Attachment & Relational Patterns

Focus: Using the intuitive, honest feedback of horses to identify, feel and shift how you move through the world in relationships.

Parenting
Neurodivergent Kids

Focus: Regulate your own systems, process expectations that don’t fit, and find a sustainable way forward to connected parenting.

Reproductive Transitions & Birth Trauma

Focus: The upheaval of the early parenting years. Find your bearings in your new reality.

For a better idea of how working with me looks and feels, check out my Instagram page @annacmalingtherapy

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Therapy with horses isn’t about learning skills next to them — it’s about being in relationship with them. Horses respond to us in real time, which means we get to notice our patterns as they happen and practice new ways of connecti

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FAQ

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Therapy for new parents provides emotional support during the major life changes of pregnancy, birth, and early parenthood. It can help with postpartum depression, anxiety, and the stress of adjusting to life with a baby. If you’re feeling overwhelmed or disconnected, new parent counseling can help you feel more grounded and supported.
📍 Serving Maryland & Vermont with in-person and online sessions.
A difficult or unexpected birth can leave emotional scars. Birth trauma therapy helps you process the experience, work through feelings of fear or sadness, and find a sense of peace. Whether you had a C-section, complicated delivery, or a birth that didn’t go as planned, therapy can support your healing.
📍 Available for Maryland and Vermont clients in-person or online.
Disenfranchised grief is the pain of a loss that others may not understand or acknowledge. This can include miscarriage, abortion, infertility, adoption placement, or identity changes. In therapy, we give this grief the space it deserves so you can process the loss and begin to heal.
📍 Specializing in disenfranchised grief therapy in Maryland and Vermont.
Pregnancy loss can feel like an invisible grief, but it's a very real loss. Therapy can help you process your emotions, honor your loss, and navigate the impact it has on your relationships and identity. Whether you've experienced miscarriage, stillbirth, or TFMR (termination for medical reasons), you deserve support.
📍 Offering compassionate pregnancy loss counseling in Maryland and Vermont.
Equine-assisted therapy uses interactions with horses to help you build emotional awareness, trust, and regulation. Horses are sensitive to human emotions, making them powerful partners in therapy. Equine therapy can help with trauma, anxiety, grief, and emotional growth—all while spending time outdoors in nature.
📍 Equine therapy available in Maryland at Bay Meadow Farm.
If you feel overwhelmed, anxious, irritable, disconnected from your baby, or like you’re “not yourself,” you might benefit from postpartum depression therapy. Many new parents dismiss these feelings as “normal,” but postpartum anxiety and depression can persist without support. Therapy can help you feel more grounded and connected.
📍 Supporting new parents in Maryland and Vermont with postpartum mental health therapy.
Grieving someone you love is a long and complicated process, and it can feel isolating. In grief counseling, you’ll have space to talk about your loss, express difficult emotions, and figure out how to move forward without letting go of what matters most. Therapy can help, no matter how long it’s been since the loss.
📍 Offering grief counseling in Maryland and Vermont for individuals navigating loss.

Ready to see if we are a good fit? Contact me now!