Full Biography
About Anne
Dr. Anne Metz is a licensed professional counselor and counseling faculty member whose work spans women's mental health and counselor education.
She teaches graduate-level counseling courses as clinical faculty at Southern New Hampshire University.
Dr. Metz holds a PhD from James Madison University, where she completed a research fellowship in criminal justice reform at the University of Virginia School of Law. Her research on judicial sentencing practices — one of the first qualitative studies of its kind — led to significant policy changes enabling nonviolent drug offenders to access community-based treatment instead of incarceration.
She holds active clinical licenses in Colorado, New Mexico, Oregon, California, and Virginia.
On working with women
I specialize in women's mental health not because it is a niche, but because women's experiences — the physical, hormonal, relational, and existential dimensions of a woman's life — are too often undertreated and underestimated by mental health care.
Perimenopause and menopause are identity events, not just medical ones. Infertility is grief that rarely receives the acknowledgment it deserves. The transitions of midlife — shifting sense of purpose, emptying nests, aging bodies, changing relationships — ask women to rebuild their sense of self without a roadmap. This is profound work. It deserves a therapist with both clinical depth and real investment.
That is what I offer.