Anyone Can Have a Mental Health Challenge. 

We Can All Know How to Respond with Care and Confidence . 

Practical, engaging, and interactive mental health education and training helping people recognize early warning signs, respond with confidence, and create cultures where asking for help is welcome, not stigmatized.

Skills That Save Lives. Support That Strengthens Teams and Communities.

I ensure your organization can be equipped to navigate any mental health challenge can that arise with

clarity, compassion, and confidence.

Through trauma-informed, equity-centered training, your team learns how to:

  • Identify early signs of mental distress

  • Respond safely and without panic

  • Support colleagues, clients, and students in crisis

  • Prevent burnout and compassion fatigue

  • Communicate in ways that protect dignity and safety

  • Build a culture where wellbeing is a shared responsibility

Whether you lead a workplace, school, nonprofit, or municipality, I deliver practical tools to truly show up for one another.

Expertise You Can Trust.
Authentic Perspective You Can Feel.

With 20+ years of experience as a mental health educator, including a decade leading campus-wide mental health strategies at the University of Vermont, I have trained more than 1,000 professionals, leaders, and students in Mental Health First Aid, suicide prevention, trauma-aware communication, and bystander intervention.

AVCC’s work blends:
✔ Evidence-based practice
✔ Trauma-informed frameworks
✔ Cultural and identity awareness
✔ Academic expertise
✔ Lived experience as an eating disorder survivor
✔ A calm, grounded teaching style
✔ Deep compassion for both the person struggling and the person responding

For the guide organizations turn to when they need depth, nuance, authenticity and true competence, not surface-level workshops,

Brave, Personal-Relatable.” “Sharing your story allowed for us to better understand the importance of gaining knowledge in this area.” “Annie’s lecture was top tier. I think her story is so powerful and speaks magnitude to lived experience. You should definitely have her back.” “Not to sound dramatic but Annie's work was literally life altering.” “I’m grateful for her passion, and commitment to this topic. I am so appreciative.”

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Brave, Personal-Relatable.” “Sharing your story allowed for us to better understand the importance of gaining knowledge in this area.” “Annie’s lecture was top tier. I think her story is so powerful and speaks magnitude to lived experience. You should definitely have her back.” “Not to sound dramatic but Annie's work was literally life altering.” “I’m grateful for her passion, and commitment to this topic. I am so appreciative.” 〰️