Training & Experience
Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), licensed since 2009
Certified Advanced Grief Counseling Specialist
Nearly three decades of personal and professional engagement with contemplative and intuitive practices
Over a decade supporting individuals through grief, loss, and life‑altering transitions
Several years mentoring others in intuitive awareness and reflective practice through Inner Oracle Academy
About Anna & Collecting Hope
Welcome. I’m honored you’re here.
Collecting Hope was created as a space for people moving through grief, loss, and profound life transitions; particularly those moments when familiar ways of coping no longer feel sufficient.
My name is Anna Long‑Stokes. I’m a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, a Certified Advanced Grief Counseling Specialist, and I’ve spent many years supporting people through experiences that alter their sense of identity, meaning, and belonging.
Alongside my clinical training, I’ve also spent decades engaged in contemplative, intuitive, and energy‑based practices that many people experience as supportive during times of deep change. Long before I had formal language or frameworks for this work, I was aware of subtle emotional and energetic shifts, both in myself and others, that shaped how I understood healing.
For a long time, I tried to hold these worlds separately. I built a traditional therapy practice, supported countless clients through grief, divorce, and life transitions, and honored the structure and boundaries of licensed mental health work. That work mattered and still does.
Over time, I also noticed that some people felt emotionally understood but remained stuck in ways that words alone couldn’t address. Their grief lived not only in stories and emotions, but in their bodies, sense of meaning, and felt connection to life itself. This awareness eventually led me to create Collecting Hope as a space that openly honors both counseling and optional, complementary healing work; clearly distinguished, thoughtfully held, and guided by consent.
Today, I live on the Oregon coast with my husband and our dogs, offering grief counseling and private energy‑based sessions for those who feel drawn to deeper, experiential support around loss and transition. My work centers on helping people reconnect with steadiness, meaning, and hope; without rushing, fixing, or pushing them toward outcomes.
Training & Experience
Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) since 2009
Certified Advanced Grief Counselor
29 years of healing practice
15 years specializing in advanced energy work
10 years of clairvoyant and psychic development
5+ years mentoring others in intuitive development over at my Inner Oracle Academy.
My Approach
Whether working clinically or through energy‑based sessions, my role is to help people slow down, listen more carefully to what is present, and create space for what feels ready to shift. This may involve emotional processing, reflective dialogue, embodied awareness, or subtle energetic support—always guided by collaboration and care.
In energy healing sessions, the focus is not on performance or certainty, but on supporting clarity, grounding, and integration. Experiences vary widely, and no specific outcomes are promised. What matters most is emotional safety, consent, and honoring each person’s unique process.
I trust that healing unfolds when people are met with presence, respect, and space; rather than pressure or expectation.
Your Journey Matters
I know what it’s like to carry grief that doesn’t fit neatly into stages. To function outwardly while feeling deeply altered inside. To sense that something profound has shifted and that it cannot simply be talked through or timed away.
When you come to Collecting Hope, you are not treated as a problem to be solved or a process to be completed. You are met as a whole person whose experience matters.
This work is not about pushing happiness or asking you to “move on.” It’s about helping you feel more intact, more connected, and more able to live alongside what has been lost.
Hope isn’t forced here. It’s gently supported, often emerging in ways that can’t be rushed, but can be held.
Let's Begin
If something here resonates, I invite you to reach out.
The first step is a brief consultation where we can explore whether counseling, energy‑based work, or a combination feels most supportive right now. From there, we can discuss next steps, whether that’s individual sessions or group offerings.
You don’t have to navigate this alone.
Hope can become possible again, even if you can’t feel it yet.