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Relationship & Sexuality Coaching and Therapy
Heal your relationships and be free!
Breathing Practice full audio 50 minutes with body poses
(last 25 minutes is the breathing only)
Ancestral Healing, Relational Cord Clearing, Somatic Psychotherapy, and more
Albuquerque, New Mexico & Santa Monica, California
Hello I’m Annette Gates, LCSW, MEd, CSSE. All those letters show my dedication to holding a safe space for your healing.
My private practice not only serves clients seeking private therapy and spiritual healing. I’m also available for supervision for therapists, coaches, healthcare organizations, agencies, and companies. I am a certified sex therapist and a master of education in human sexuality. As a licensed clinical social worker, social justice, cultural humility, and empathy are woven through my psyche. I also teach for a global healing school, the Barbara Brennan School of Healing, California Year 2 Faculty. I help people gain true alignment with core qualities, needs, and values that guide the transformative process toward happiness and joy.
Discussing sexuality and relationship concerns can be daunting for people and groups. It can feel isolating in today’s highly polarized world. I support by using; strength-based, practical and holistic approaches to get desired results. Prior to becoming a healer, therapist, and educator, I was a human resources executive and coach. Transformation is my life’s service.
If you or someone you know is experiencing overwhelming anxiety or grief, reach out to talk to someone free and anonymous at 505-954-1057. Help is available. Crisis Counseling for New Mexico.
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I am thrilled to announce upcoming IN PERSON workshops designed to foster healing and personal growth. These transformative experiences will take place in person, offering you the opportunity to connect deeply with yourself and others in a supportive environment. With 3 to 4 workshops held throughout the year in Santa Monica, each workshop will provide a unique chance to explore your healing journey. By joining my email list, you will receive exclusive updates on workshop dates, ensuring you never miss an opportunity to be part of this vibrant community. Together, we can nurture our growth and deepen our connections.
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Contact and Practice
I am currently taking new clients and take most insurance in New Mexico Only, including Medicaid and Medicare. I will take California insurance starting January 2026.
My sessions are mostly on Zoom. Monthly in person sessions are available in Albuquerque, New Mexico & Quarterly in Santa Monica, Ca
- All self pay sessions are $150 per 50-minute session. Sliding scale. My rate for individual and couples sessions are the same.
- My rates for BBSH student BIP sessions are different. Please schedule a free zoom consult.
- Organizational and supervision rates are variable depending on budgets and needs.
FREE Biweekly Meditation & Healing groups led by Annette
A great way to connect with the energy healing aspect of being a spiritual human being rather than a disconnected human doing machine.
WEDNESDAYS biweekly at 10am MT, 12pm noon ET on:
April 30, May 14, June 11 & 25, July 16, July 30
Click HERE for the Zoom Link
More info:
Seeds of the Spirit is a collection of transformative poetic channelings from Barbara Brennan. These channelings occurred at class meetings at the Barbara Brennan School of Healing.
Each week we will explore one of these transformational poems to connect its deeper meaning to our life and what is going on in the world at this time. These meditations allow us to connect in a deeper way to our spiritual, mental, emotional and physical selves as we interact with all 4 dimensions of humankind; Core Star, Hara, Aura, Physical.
IF TIMES I HOLD DO NOT WORK FOR YOU PLEASE GET ON THE BARBARA BRENNAN SCHOOL OF HEALING EMAIL LIST. HERE
Love Making Life: A guide to sexual healing and awakening
Schedule a confidential, free 20-minute consultation to understand how this guide can help you.
LINKS IN BLUE
Relationship Resources:
The Healing Power of Forgiveness – at UU Santa Fe
Listen to an interview with Annette on Spotify
For anyone. 12-step groups are great for understanding yourself, others and our patterns in relationship. I’ve been an active member of 12-step recovery from the family disease of alcoholism for over 25 years. Phone, zoom, and in person meetings are everywhere. Google the group of your choosing…
For couples in recovery, check out RCA (Recovering Couples Anonymous) meetings, books and resources. INVALUABLE!!!!! And it’s FREE!
Here are links to a few resources from the Gottman Institute. Explore the site. There are wonderful resources for parents too. Free Gottman Newsletter. Webinars. 30-day Relationship Program. Online Relationship Intensive.
The Gottman Institute Podcast is great too!
Parlor Games
Women need science, solutions & sisterhood for the second half of life. They are saving the world, one vagina at a time.
AH! YES®
Intimate certified organic products which respect and care for the vagina & vulva. Designed to be side effect-free, natural and pH matched to the vagina.
Please request the link for adult educational video resources. Email me at annettegates@gmail.com.
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MY Calendar
Book here
I am thrilled to announce my upcoming IN PERSON workshops designed to foster healing and personal growth. These transformative experiences will take place in person, offering you the opportunity to connect deeply with yourself and others in a supportive environment. With 3 to 4 workshops held throughout the year in Santa Monica, each workshop will provide a unique chance to explore your healing journey. By joining my email list, you will receive exclusive updates on workshop dates, ensuring you never miss an opportunity to be part of this vibrant community. Together, we can nurture our growth and deepen our connections.
Sign up to Stay in Touch!
2025 Online Zoom Barbara Brennan Workshops
Cost $100
Core Light Healing, TBA August 2025
Saturday & Sunday
9am-1pm MT
Explore the nature of the creative process from the Human Energy-Consciousness perspective. Discover how we create blocks in our energy field that cause dysfunction. Understand the process to clear those blocks and release creative potential. Learn about ancestral healing.
Light Emerging, Late Summer 2025
Go deeper into perceiving your needs on every level of your energy field and how you can participate in your self-healing process and healing relationships. Learn about relationship chord healing.
RELATIONSHIP and all issues, concerns, and desires are the focus of all workshops. No need to do them in order. Your order is DIVINE! Understand the energy field and high sense perception in HANDS OF LIGHT WORKSHOP. Self-healing and relationship chords in LIGHT EMERGING WORKSHOP. Ancestral healing in CORE LIGHT HEALING WORKSHOP. Heal yourself and your relationships and BE FREE!
I no longer teach Hands of Light Workshops. There are EXCELLENT HOL workshop leaders offering classes/workshops all over and on zoom.
Check out BBSH website for Hands of Light Workshops
Learn the basics about spiritual healing: the human energy field, chakra system and high sense perception.
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FREE Transformational Course Modules
From Transactional to Transformative Relationships: What’s going on? – Module 1
Understand deeper: your complaints, persistent thought patterns or desires. Get relief through guided meditation and forgiveness exercises.
Know thyself: What is reciprocity? – Module 2
What is communication and reciprocity? Understand your needs and values. Learn tools for communication and how to increase intimacy with your partner and yourself.
Dive Deeper: Taking inventory – Module 3
Knowing yourself and your values, needs and communication more deeply. I guide you through taking personal inventory. You will learn about your areas to let go and values to cultivate, with Brene Brown’s Wholehearted Inventory and your love languages with Dr. Gary Chapman’s 5 Love Languages.
Learn some coping tools for emotional regulation. Take Dr. Diane Poole Heller’s Attachment Styles Test. Use this to increase intimacy with your partner/spouse and yourself
Understand Your Trauma – Become a healing partner
Venture deeper into our roots. Through becoming trauma informed, we can heal ourselves and help our partners heal. Simply setting the intention of holding a ‘safe space’ as we become more aware of ourselves and our own patterns, it is healing; not only for ourselves, but for our current and future partners. We live in a shame-based society where we all experience trauma because of our upbringing, societal images, and lack of education. This often compounds already held trauma in the body that plays out in our experience of our sexuality. This affects our relationship patterns. Who we attract and bond with. You will learn more about your attachment style and how it affects your past and present relationships. Your trauma understandings will unwind in your body and create more space for your sexual life force energy. Your passion!
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Sexual Intimacy Resources:
Listen to an interview with Annette on Spotify
The Healing Power of Forgiveness – at UU Santa Fe
LINKS IN YELLOW
Parlor Games
Women need science, solutions & sisterhood for the second half of life. They are saving the world, one vagina at a time.
AH! YES®
Intimate certified organic products which respect and care for the vagina & vulva. Designed to be side effect-free, natural and pH matched to the vagina.
Please request the link for adult educational video resources. Email me at annettegates@gmail.com.
Communication in Relationship Resources:
For anyone. 12-step groups are great for understanding yourself, others and our patterns in relationship. I’ve been an active member of 12-step recovery from the family disease of alcoholism for over 25 years. Phone, zoom, and in person meetings are everywhere. Google the group of your choosing…
For couples in recovery, check out RCA (Recovering Couples Anonymous) meetings, books and resources. INVALUABLE!!!!! And it’s FREE!
Here are links to a few resources from the Gottman Institute. Explore the site. There are wonderful resources for parents too. Free Gottman Newsletter. Webinars. 30-day Relationship Program. Online Relationship Intensive.
The Gottman Institute Podcast is great too!