WRITER AND THERAPIST
MEET ANNA KARIN
“It is in the groundless moments we grow the most, if we are brave enough to stay aware, experience, and allow for what is emerging to unfold and evolve.”
Anna Karin Björklund
Bio
Anna Karin Björklund is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in California, LMFT #134309, a published author, and a specialist in dream therapy and mindfulness. She has a master’s degree in counseling psychology from Argosy University and is past Board Chair of the International Association for the Study of Dreams. Often featured in the media as a dream specialist, she has appeared on Steve Harvey TV on NBC, Fox & Friends, Face the Truth, and been featured in Orange Coast Magazine, Marie Claire UK, and goop among many other media outlets.
She is trained in EMDR and has completed Level 2 Training in Gottman Method Couples Therapy. She is also a certified yoga teacher, E-RYT 500 and a certified Trauma-Sensitive HeartMath provider.
She works with individuals and couples, and offers a heart-centered, eclectic, and holistic approach to therapy. She offers interfaith therapy, including Christian therapy, with a loving embrace of all faiths.
She is a member of Authors Guild and is the author of Dream and Believe: The Celestial Art of Creating in Soul Alignment; The Dream Alchemist: A Woman's Search for Love, Bliss, and Freedom across India, Time, and Dreams; Dream Guidance: Interpret Your Dreams and Create the Life You Desire.
In the Media
Full Bio
Anna Karin Björklund, M.A., LMFT, is a published author, a psychotherapist, and a teacher of dreams, mindfulness, and heart-centered living. She is past Board Chair of The International Association for the Study of Dreams, IASD, and is also a past dream specialist with Miraval Life in Balance Spa. She holds a master’s degree in counseling psychology and a bachelor’s degree in tourism management. She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, California, LMFT#134309, a specialist in dream therapy, an EMDR-trained therapist, a certified Heartmath provider, and certified yoga teacher, E-RYT 500. She has also completed Level 2 Training in Gottman Method Couples Therapy.
She is a published author and a member of Authors Guild. Often featured in the media as a dream specialist, she has appeared on Steve Harvey (NBC), Face the Truth (CBS), and Fox & Friends Weekend (Fox), and been featured on goop.com, mindbodygreen, and in magazines such as Orange Coast, Marie Claire UK, Money, Women’s Running, OMTimes, Dreamtime, and Yours.
She has lived in five countries and has an expatriate background as an international aviation executive and journalist. After nearly two decades of experience in the healing field - as a dream specialist, therapist, coach, and meditation teacher, she has developed a deep appreciation for holistic wellness, healing from trauma, self-inquiry, living from the heart, and walking on a path of compassion and higher awareness. She works with individuals and couples and offers a heart-centered, eclectic, and holistic approach to therapy. She offers interfaith therapy, including Christian therapy, with a loving embrace of all faiths.
She guides clients on paths of deeper connection, trauma reprocessing, transformational healing, higher awareness, clarity, authenticity, love, and kindness, and also holds inspirational training seminars where she works collaboratively with participants on illuminating inner explorations.
She has extensive experience working in substance use treatment centers (RTC, PHP, IOP), first responder healing centers, mental health programs, and holistic healing wellness centers.
She has a boutique virtual private practice in Southern California, and her inspiration is to help all of us to listen more deeply, abide in peace, practice higher understanding, experience joy and infinite compassion, and live from a place of heart-centered awareness.
She is the author of three books:
Dream and Believe: The Celestial Art of Creating in Soul Alignment (Sunbury Press/Ars Metaphysica, 2020)
The Dream Alchemist: A Woman’s Search for Love, Bliss, and Freedom across India, Time and Dreams (Sunbury Press/Ars Metaphysica, 2017)
Dream Guidance: Interpret Your Dreams and Create the Life You Desire (2012 Crystal Souls /2021 Sunbury Press/Ars Metaphysica).
Credentials
Master of arts degree in counseling psychology from Argosy University, Orange, CA.
Bachelor of arts degree in tourism management from University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT #134309 with Board of Behavioral Sciences, California
EMDR Trained
Completed Level 2 Training in Gottman Method Couples Therapy
Certified Trauma-Sensitive HeartMath Practitioner
Registered Yoga Teacher, E-RYT500 with Yoga Alliance
Certified Usui Reiki Master
Certificate in Neurobiology of Attachment with the National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioral Medicine