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Annie Brook Therapy & The Brook Institute
...where somatics meets early imprints.
Deepen your clinical impact and your personal healing.
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Supervision and Ongoing Training
Supervision meets second Wednesdays of the month:
1-3 PM MT.
I also offer a 1 or 2 year training option which includes attendance to all of my courses.
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Explore embodied movement with Annie Brook! She introduces a key tool called the Satisfaction Cycle, which helps people shift from feelings of depression, anxiety, or helplessness toward action, completion, and emotional satisfaction. Rooted in the basic neurological patterns from Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen’s work, Annie has added emotional components to make the cycle more accessible and transformative for adults. Drawing from her own experience as a premature baby, she shares how this practice helped her find more ease, pleasure, and relaxation in life. She teaches this tool in a simple, practical way to help others experience more satisfaction and fulfillment. Learn this tool, and improve the quality of life for your clients and yourself. Deepen your embodiment and enjoyment of life through this 53 minute masterclass.
Beyond Talk Therapy: Make Healing Come Alive
Therapy becomes truly effective when it's embodied and interactive. The Brook Institute approach helps clients of all ages access and shift the brain-state identity beliefs that shape their behavior and well-being.
Using Applied Neuroplasticity™, you’ll learn how to “change the brain to treat the pain”—integrating thought, sensation, emotion, and relational presence to re-inform the nervous system.
Whether you're a therapist or coach, this work deepens your impact.
Build a strong reputation for real, lasting results
Create a waitlist-worthy practice through embodied excellence
Feel more inspired, connected, and effective in your work
We help therapists elevate the quality of their clients’ lives.
We help individuals reconnect with the richness of embodiment and the joy of deeper relationships—within themselves and with others.
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State of the Art Neuroscience: Applied Neuroplasticity
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Psychological Development, plus
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Body developmental movement & Body-Mind Centering
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Movement, thought, and relationship interventions
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Embodiment and Living anatomy
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Training for therapists
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Birth Trauma Healing, Somatic Repatterning & Attachment Training
For Manual Therapists, OTs, PTs, and Psychotherapists
Facilitated by Annie Brook, Ph.D., LPC, Certified Body-Mind Centering® Teacher, RSME (ISMETA)
Use your own healing as the foundation for transformational work with others.
This training invites you to explore how your earliest imprints—physical, emotional, and relational—shape lifelong patterns. By repatterning at the cellular level, you can become a more embodied, attuned, and effective practitioner.
What You’ll Experience and Learn:
Group process work to revisit and repair early family dynamics
Exquisite embodiment practices rooted in Body-Mind Centering® principles
Birth journey integration and unraveling of protective response habits
Developmental and attachment psychology for deep therapeutic understanding
Verbal and relational skills for clear communication, conflict resolution, and clinical presence
You’ll learn to navigate issues of power, stay connected under stress, and bring healing presence into therapeutic relationships.
For Therapists and Coaches:
If you’re tired of surface-level sessions or feeling burnt out and unseen, this training will re-inspire your work. Our graduates often find themselves fully booked—not through aggressive marketing, but because their clients feel the depth and effectiveness of the work.
Brook Institute methods go far beyond traditional body-based therapy. You’ll learn to access the implicit layers of experience most clinicians don’t even know how to reach—even those trained in somatics.
Want support along the way? State Of The Art Therapy students receive group supervision from Annie.
This is grounded, playful, and life-changing work.
Refine your skills. Deepen your impact. Stay inspired.
Looking for lasting relief?
You're not alone—and real, body-mind healing is possible. Whether for yourself or a loved one, trauma-informed, somatic tools can make a powerful difference right now.
With over 45 years of clinical experience, Dr. Annie Brook offers compassionate, effective support to help people move beyond stuck patterns and thrive. Scroll down to read what clients are saying.
You don’t have to stay trapped in reactivity, self-judgment, or emotional overwhelm.
If you're caught in cycles of blame, anxiety, control, withdrawal, or depression—there is a way through. I’m here to help you interrupt those patterns and create real, embodied change.
Common issues I help with include:
Nameless anxiety or chronic worry
Self-critical or attacking thoughts
Reactivity and blaming in relationships
Controlling or aggressive behaviors
Avoidance, procrastination, or shutdown
Long-term depression or inner numbness
Who is Annie Brook, Ph.D.?
(Visit the “About Annie” tab in the menu for the full story.)
Dr. Brook is a master-level therapist and educator who has supported individuals, couples, families, and children for over four decades. She also trains therapists in her unique, body-based methods—giving them results and waitlists.
Annie’s approach is grounded in neuroscience, movement, and what she calls Applied Neuroplasticity™—a way of accessing and updating implicit, cellular memory through body awareness and intentional practices. Her work integrates brain science, behavioral insight, and somatic movement to bring lasting transformation.
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WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING
"Annie is a dynamic group facilitator, who is full of fierceness and compassion. She teaches from an authentic, heart-filled, intelligent, heart and mind. Annie offers a comprehensive and experiential field in which to explore and understand our earliest developmental patterns and those of our clients. As we begin to uncover these survival-based strategies from infancy, Annie offers new choices for how to be in life more completely and have more nurturing and satisfying relationships. Annie’s groups and online classes are filled with space for personal exploration, somatic practice, and wise insight to bring back into your personal life as well as your professional life.”
Allison Weliky, LPC, MA
Licensed Psychotherapist
“ I learned how to really, really, really slow it down so I am not re-stimulating my trauma. I learned skills to track my own trauma responses/triggers so that I don’t dissociate. The training put me in more awe than I could have imagined regarding early imprinting and the power and lasting effects it can have on us. Now I know what anesthesia given to Mom can do to baby,and I am gradually clearing this imprint out of my system. This training has dramatically and irrevocably altered my life in so many positive ways. Annie models the work so expertly in just the way she “holds space” during the trainings.”
Michael Mathieu
Certified Rolfer
Here is what others say about the Brook Institute Trainings and Healing Work
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Julie Rappaport. MA
www.Marriage counseling in boulder.com
"I have taken numerous trainings in the past and have found that none have covered the depth AND breadth that Annie’s does. She has an uncanny way of weaving everything together so that it all makes sense. Her teachings are unique, as she masterfully weaves many different theories, concepts and modalities into one. I have never been in a training where I have learned so much personal and professional applicable material."
Julie Rappaport. MA
www.Marriage counseling in boulder.com
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Jonathan Grassi, LMT, CPTMI
bodyworkforliberation.com
"Annie Brook is one of the living somatic masters of our time. Her lifelong dedication to the somatic life, continual training, and deepening her practice, has led her to astounding understandings of the complexity and brilliance of the body-mind. She is a facilitator of change on a cellular level, working at the very bedrock of identity and behavior. She will open your perception to the depths of the formation of consciousness
and how to be a facilitator there, in that space, helping you to create the kind of change for your clients that is so rare and so beautiful. I cannot recommend working with her enough. She has brought so much depth and richness to my life and my practice. It is a true blessing to have her guidance on the path."
Board Certified Massage Therapist
Bronze medalist winner of the World Champion in Massage and featured in the film "Touched" which will debuted at film festivals in 2021
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David Sawyer,
founder Prenatal Journey training
The Center for Somatic Psychology LLC
www.davidsawyertherapy.com
"Annie Brook, Ph.D. has been studying somatic psychotherapy for 35 years and pre & perinatal psychology for 25 years. Her book set, Birth’s Hidden Legacy, is an extensive overview of the field of prenatal and birth psychology. In great detail, it reviews the profound and varying effects that this formative period can have on later life. With numerous case studies, Dr. Brook illustrates treatment techniques to bring about change. Birth’s Hidden Legacy is a great addition in an emerging field. It contains decades of knowledge synthesized from her own work and others, and makes this available in a coherent, easy to read format for all."
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MM
GoldenBridge.org
"Annie is a brilliant guide for those of us on the path of healing. She is highly attuned to her clients, dedicated for the long haul, and truly gifted in helping people navigate through the complex terrain of prenatal life, birth, and early developmental related issues. Annie is also able to powerfully assist couples as they repair early attachment dynamics and move into embodied connection and ever expanding intimacy. Annie lives what she teaches. She is an integrated woman, a creative inspiration, and a treasure in our community..."
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Books, ebooks, audio, DVD, online courses, and individual online session support
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Books
We offer a variety of resource books and ebooks for parents, therapists, and educators.
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DVDs
Learn by watching. Follow Annie through guided movement sessions with infants and adults, learn the developmental movement patterns, and train your brain. For parents, movement educators, and adults.
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Online 1:1 Sessions
We offer online one on one client sessions for those that can't make it into our Boulder office. This includes effective sessions for children.
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Online Courses
- Experiential, with a membership site loaded with resources and application/learning.
