“For one human being to love another human being: that is perhaps the most difficult task that has been given to us, the ultimate, the final problem and proof, the work for which all other work is merely preparation.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
— Rainer Maria Rilke
About Ann Ladd
Ann was raised in Kansas in an active family with five siblings, working class parents, and all four grandparents who lived throughout her childhood. She graduated from the University of Kansas in 1965 with a degree in Physical Therapy and married attorney David Ladd in Chicago in 1966.
Ann and her husband moved to Washington DC in 1980 for David’s new job as Registrar of Copyrights. Here Ann became a Master Trainer in the PAIRS® program, a skill-based, comprehensive course for couples and began her private practice as a psychotherapist. Ann also did consulting and life-skill workshops in a wide variety of business, non-profit and government organizational settings. She combined her love of teaching with her understanding and skill as a psychotherapist to create practical, entertaining psycho-educational workshops.
Ann and her husband moved to Washington DC in 1980 for David’s new job as Registrar of Copyrights. Here Ann became a Master Trainer in the PAIRS® program, a skill-based, comprehensive course for couples and began her private practice as a psychotherapist. Ann also did consulting and life-skill workshops in a wide variety of business, non-profit and government organizational settings. She combined her love of teaching with her understanding and skill as a psychotherapist to create practical, entertaining psycho-educational workshops.
“We have to study how to be tender with each other until it becomes habit.”
— Audre Lorde
Combining her degrees in Physical Therapy (BS – 1965), Counseling (MS – 1975), Holistic Health Care (PhD – 1978) and Social Work (MSW –1989), Ann has developed an approach to deep personal growth and healing that includes mind, body, emotions and spirit. Her practice in Virginia was called Life Patterns for Health reflecting her therapeutic approach that focuses on strengths and practical functionality.
Widowed unexpectedly in 1994, Ann moved to her current home in Colorado. Here she founded The Connecting Place, a center for healing and strengthening the relationship with oneself and with others. Ann teaches a couples' class — The HeArt of Relationships — that is based on the Love Cycles approach to healing relationships developed by her colleague, Linda Carroll, LMFT. Ann has worked with hundreds of individuals and couples across the United States, Canada and England. She also trains mental health professionals in the field of relationships and the emotional bonding process, Heart of Healing, that she developed.
In addition to her practice in Pueblo, Ann traveled to Corvallis, Oregon every other month for 20 years to conduct intensive weekend workshops based on her work described in Heart of Healing: A Therapist’s Journey with Clients (2012). She also created and co-led themed workshops for women with her Corvallis colleague, Linda Carroll.
In addition to her private practice and teaching, Ann loves painting, travel, pickleball, biking, singing, cooking and playing with her family, friends and two rescued doggie friends, Frankie and Fiona.
Widowed unexpectedly in 1994, Ann moved to her current home in Colorado. Here she founded The Connecting Place, a center for healing and strengthening the relationship with oneself and with others. Ann teaches a couples' class — The HeArt of Relationships — that is based on the Love Cycles approach to healing relationships developed by her colleague, Linda Carroll, LMFT. Ann has worked with hundreds of individuals and couples across the United States, Canada and England. She also trains mental health professionals in the field of relationships and the emotional bonding process, Heart of Healing, that she developed.
In addition to her practice in Pueblo, Ann traveled to Corvallis, Oregon every other month for 20 years to conduct intensive weekend workshops based on her work described in Heart of Healing: A Therapist’s Journey with Clients (2012). She also created and co-led themed workshops for women with her Corvallis colleague, Linda Carroll.
In addition to her private practice and teaching, Ann loves painting, travel, pickleball, biking, singing, cooking and playing with her family, friends and two rescued doggie friends, Frankie and Fiona.
The Connection
Ann Ladd, PhD, LCSW
Each of us carries within all we need to live a purposeful, joyful life. However, through the challenges of childhood and later difficulties in our lives, we may lose contact with the inner knowing that guides us toward our unique, healthy life choices.
I can help you restore your innate wisdom and resilience. Through deep and empathic listening, emotional re-education, and life skills development, I can assist you in removing blocks to your natural state of self-acceptance and trust.
This reclaiming of self will free you to express and celebrate your deepest feelings, talents, and interests.
This transformation of your relationship to yourself will, in turn, allow you to create loving, satisfying relationships with others.
Ann Ladd is a direct, practical, gentle, and deeply compassionate therapist with a holistic approach. She has more than 30 years of experience in the mental health field.
I can help you restore your innate wisdom and resilience. Through deep and empathic listening, emotional re-education, and life skills development, I can assist you in removing blocks to your natural state of self-acceptance and trust.
This reclaiming of self will free you to express and celebrate your deepest feelings, talents, and interests.
This transformation of your relationship to yourself will, in turn, allow you to create loving, satisfying relationships with others.
Ann Ladd is a direct, practical, gentle, and deeply compassionate therapist with a holistic approach. She has more than 30 years of experience in the mental health field.
“The central task for couples is to skillfully navigate two subjective realities to create a supportive, respectful, loving, and joyful way of sharing the challenges and blessings of life’s journey together.
In the process of learning skillful means, each will also gain more self-awareness, enhanced self-worth, and healing of earlier wounding.”
In the process of learning skillful means, each will also gain more self-awareness, enhanced self-worth, and healing of earlier wounding.”
⏤ Ann Ladd