Anna is a dissociative survivor and behavioral neuroscientist studying the psychophysiology of trauma. She is available for trauma‑informed trainings, speaking engagements, and consultations.
Anna M. Rosenhauer, PhD
Anna integrates rigorous behavioral neuroscience with profound, internal insights from her lived experience to offer consultations that go far beyond standard clinical theory.
Dr. Anna M. Rosenhauer received her PhD in neuroscience from Georgia State University, where she studied the effects of trauma and social stress. Later as a postdoctoral researcher with Dr. Ebony Glover, she examined the impact of ovarian hormones on fear conditioning and used this model to identify sex differences in individuals who have experienced trauma.
She next worked with the Detroit Trauma Project at Wayne State University, under the direction of Dr. Tanja Jovanovic. While there, Anna oversaw several projects exploring physiological responses to trauma and the biological effects of adversity experienced during development. One project included using specific epigenetic and quantitative sensory testing to develop models determining particular impacts of developmental trauma based on the time period during which the trauma was experienced.
Overall, Anna has focused her research on seeking to understand the biological basis of adaptations to trauma and the physiological interplay between trauma, development, and healing. She is passionate about explaining scientific research to survivors and the clinicians who work with them in an easy-to-understand, practical format, and advocates for including lived experience and clinical wisdom as necessary components of scientific research.
Following her academic training and career, Anna sought to provide more direct care through connections with survivors and the providers and supporters who seek to support them. She now provides consultations, teachings and trainings, and presentations in order to advocate, educate, and support those who are impacted by trauma and those who care for them.
As a consultant, she particularly enjoys working with provider-survivor dyads who are “stuck” in an unhelpful cycle. Her unique perspective can offer ideas for intervention that can permit individuals to unlock pathways out of unhelpful cycles and allow for continued progress toward a survivor’s healing goals.
In her free time, you can find her practicing yoga, drinking fancy coffee, writing in her journal, or playing with her service dog.
By synthesizing research-derived psychophysiology with the lived reality of multiplicity, Anna brings providers and organizations unique, trauma-informed group training specifically designed to improve care for plural clients.
Whether speaking at national conferences or providing individualized provider consultations, Anna offers a rare "insider-expert" perspective that helps therapists decode complex symptoms, fostering deeper interconnection and long-term well-being for their clients.
Anna is a great speaker and always delivers an excellent and informative presentation!
~Dissociative Creative Explorations
I have been grateful to learn from Anna; her support has helped me seek and discover "third ways" through the binds that make this work so difficult for clients and providers alike.
~Consulting Client
I cannot recommend Anna highly enough for consultation and support in conceptualizing complex cases!
Her sophisticated weaving of neuroscience, trauma and attachment theory, and (generously offered) lived experience perspective brings a unique lens that has been invaluable to my work with my clients.
~Annie Goldsmith, RD, LDN, AP-ERED
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“As a dissociative survivor and behavioral neuroscientist, I offer a perspective that is rarely found in clinical or academic settings. My work is built on the belief that the best trauma-informed care occurs when we combine rigorous psychophysiological research with the lived experience of trauma survivors.”
—Dr. Anna M. Rosenhauer
Ways to Collaborate with Anna
Individualized Consultations
Anna works directly with therapists and medical providers to help decode the complexities of their plural clients. By offering "insider-expert" insight into the psychophysiology of multiplicity, she helps providers and survivors move past clinical roadblocks to foster deeper interconnection, well-being, and discernment to navigate trauma recovery for survivors and those who desire to support them.
Ongoing Consultation Groups
Anna facilitates ongoing consultation and groups for providers who work with trauma survivors. These groups include both didactic psychoeducation and discussion-based processing. With a specific focus these groups typically last 6-8 weeks and ask for an attendance commitment for the series. This offers the additional benefit of fostering peer relationships and horizontal support which is particularly necessary for providers working with survivors of extreme trauma. These can be joined as an individual or requested for an entire practice or group of providers together.
Specialized Group Trainings
She provides unique, research-derived training for clinics, universities, and organizations. She also offers trainings through the Refractory—a plural-clinician-led think tank whose mission is to bring plural-led resources to the clinicians and providers who desire to support plurals. These sessions translate the “hard science” of the impact of traumatic stress into practical, trauma-informed strategies for working effectively with complex trauma. Her offerings range from basic understandings of the impact of stress to very specific workshops and clinics that provide information on dissociative disorders and survivors of extreme abuse.
Speaking and Advocacy
From keynote addresses to panel discussions, Anna brings a scientist’s rigor and a survivor’s truth to every word she speaks. Anna is especially passionate about the intersection of neuroscience, plurality, and the reality of navigating an untrauma-conscious world that is not always conducive to healing. Her advocacy is born out of her lived experience as a survivor of organized and extreme abuse, as well as informed by her neuroscience education.
Ready to learn more and get unstuck?
Contact Anna using this form to start a conversation discussing how Anna’s offerings might fit with your needs and to inquire about adaptive/accessible pricing.