Ateeka “Anne” Contee (she/her)
Ateeka “Anne” Contee (she/her)
A lotus flower submerges every night into the mud —undeterred by its negative environment—it miraculously re-blooms the next morning without residue on its petals.
Prepare to transform and awaken like a lotus flower.
Accepting new therapy clients for virtual telehealth
Why I Do This Work
For over two decades, I’ve dedicated my life to helping individuals, couples, and fellow healing professionals navigate the intersection of trauma, relationships, and embodied healing.
My journey began in corporate America, where I witnessed firsthand the toll that unprocessed trauma, relational disconnection, and emotional burnout take on individuals and their families. This experience led me to trauma-informed yoga, Safe Conversations®, and somatic healing practices, which became the foundation of my work as a licensed psychotherapist, international speaker, and facilitator of deep relational healing. I service under-represented, under-privileged, under-serviced, and under-recognized identities from a safe understanding of cultural perspective and inclusiveness.
My specialty is in helping people reconnect with themselves and others, using a unique blend of:
✔ Engaging the body’s wisdom for deeper emotional healing.
✔ Creating communication that heals rather than harms.
✔ Supporting long-term well-being through embodiment.
✔ Healing deep-rooted patterns through movement-based practices.
✔ Utilizing neuroscience to achieve nervous system regulation and resilience.
I believe that we heal in relationships. Whether you’re a couple seeking deeper connection, an individual processing past trauma, or a professional looking to integrate relational healing into your work, I am here to support your journey.
Professional Overview & Credentials
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🇺🇸 English, 🇮🇳 Hindi, 🇵🇰 Urdu
📌 Other MHC team members speak additional languages. Please inquire if language access is needed.
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Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) – Florida, Maryland & Nevada
MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling – (Loyola University)
MBA in Business Management – (Bowie State University)
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✔ Certified Clinical Trauma Professional (CCTP)
✔ Certified Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP) Practitioner
✔ Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Trained Therapist
✔ Certified Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapist
✔ Certified Imago® Relationship Therapist
✔ Certified Keeping The Relationships You Find® Facilitator
✔ Certified CHI for Two® Attachment-Focused Somatic Therapist
✔ Certified Master Facilitator of Safe Conversations®
✔ Natural Lifemanship Trauma Informed Equine Therapist (Level II Trained)
✔ Certified Nature Informed Therapist
✔ Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Practitioner
✔ Certified Trauma-Informed Yoga Educator (500+hrs registered)
✔ Certified Ayurvedic Wellness Counselor -
✔ Intergenerational & Cultural Healing Work
✔ Trauma-Informed Couples Therapy & Relational Healing
✔ Somatic Therapy & Nervous System Regulation
✔ Professional Burnout & Resilience Coaching -
✅ Offering virtual telehealth sessions & in-office sessions (by invitation only)
✅ In-person locations: Florida, Maryland, & Nevada -
📄 Accepted Insurance Plans
CareFirst
Blue Cross, Blue Shield
Cigna and Evernorth
Humana
Optum
UnitedHealthcare UHC | UBH
Out of Network
💳 Self-Pay Therapy Session Fees
Individual: $125
Couples: $180
Sliding scale may be available
✅ Accepted Payment Methods
American Express
Cash
Discover
Health Savings Account (HSA)
Mastercard
Visa
Speaking & Media Opportunities
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Official Bio
Ateeka “Anne” Contee is a licensed trauma therapist, relational healing facilitator, and founder of MindFull Healing Collective. With over two decades of experience, her work bridges Eastern wisdom traditions and Western clinical practice, integrating neuroscience, somatic healing, and culturally grounded approaches to trauma and relationships.
Born in India and based in the U.S. for the last 40 years, Ateeka supports individuals, couples, and fellow therapists navigating burnout, grief, and disconnection. She is an APA-accredited Continuing Education provider, trained in EMDR, Safe Conversations®, Imago® Relationship Therapy, and multiple somatic modalities. Ateeka belives that healing happens through relationships and community, not in isolation. For free resources and events, check out MindfullHealingCollective.com
Ateeka Contee is a trauma therapist and speaker who blends Eastern healing traditions with Western psychotherapy. As founder of MindFull Healing Collective, she supports relational repair, nervous system regulation, and intergenerational healing for individuals, couples, and fellow therapists navigating stress, trauma, and burnout.
Short Casual Bio
Ateeka Contee is a therapist, wife, mentor, and nature lover who believes healing happens together, not alone. Born in India and shaped by many cultures, she brings deep care, honesty, and presence to her work supporting relationships, families, and fellow therapists.
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Loving Across Difference
Relational Safety in Interracial and High-Stress Marriages
In this talk, Ateeka draws from lived experience and clinical work supporting interracial couples, first-responder families, and high-stress partnerships.
When appropriate, this conversation may include her husband, a retired Black EMS and Fire Department chief, offering a grounded, real-world perspective on what changed their marriage through Safe Conversations®.
Learning Objectives
Understand how race, culture, and occupational stress shape relationships
Recognize the impact of trauma on interracial and high-pressure partnerships
Learn how structured communication supports safety across difference
Explore pathways toward deeper trust without minimizing lived experience
Healing Happens in Relationship
Why Connection Is Essential to Trauma Recovery
Trauma work often focuses on the individual. This keynote expands the lens to show why lasting healing requires relational safety, not just insight or self-regulation.
Drawing from Safe Conversations®, Imago-informed relationship theory, EMDR, and somatic trauma practices, Ateeka explores how trauma shapes connection, communication, and repair, and how relationships themselves become powerful sites of healing.
Learning Objectives
Understand trauma as a relational, not solely individual, experience
Identify how nervous system dysregulation impacts communication and attachment
Learn why structure and safety are essential for repair
Recognize relational healing as a skill that can be practiced and strengthened
From Power Struggle to Partnership
What Long-Term Relationships Need to Survive Stress
Based on principles from Getting the Love You Want®, this keynote reframes conflict as a predictable stage of relationship development rather than a sign of failure.
Ateeka helps audiences understand why defensiveness, withdrawal, and reactivity arise under stress, and what supports the shift toward conscious partnership.
Learning Objectives
Identify the stages of relationship development and common breakdown points
Understand how early experiences shape adult conflict patterns
Recognize the difference between unconscious reactivity and conscious response
Learn how intentional communication restores trust and connection
Conversations That Heal Instead of Harm
A Trauma-Informed Approach to Communication Under Pressure
Well-intentioned people often cause harm when conversations happen too fast, too loaded, or without safety. This facilitated experience introduces trauma-informed communication principles grounded in Safe Conversations® and nervous system science.
Learning Objectives
Understand why good intentions are not enough in high-stakes conversations
Learn how structure and pacing reduce defensiveness
Identify behaviors that escalate or de-escalate conflict
Practice responsibility-based communication that supports repair
The Middle Is Not a Mistake
Staying Connected to Yourself While Everything Is Changing
Keynote Overview
Transitions are often framed as something to “get through” quickly. But in reality, the most destabilizing moments of life and leadership happen in the middle, when identities shift, roles dissolve, and certainty is gone.
In this keynote, Ateeka explores what she calls growth edges: liminal spaces where old ways of being no longer fit, but new ones have not yet formed. Drawing from trauma-informed therapy, relational healing, and decades of work with people in transition, she reframes uncertainty not as failure, but as a necessary stage of transformation.
Rather than offering formulas, Ateeka helps audiences understand what actually supports grounded presence, honest communication, and self-trust when visibility feels risky and the ground feels unstable.
Learning Objectives
Audiences will:
Understand why transition activates fear, self-doubt, and overexposure
Recognize the nervous system’s role in how we relate to change
Learn how relational safety supports authentic presence during uncertainty
Reframe growth edges as developmental, not deficient
Presence Is Not Performance
How Self-Regulation Sustains Leadership Under Pressure
Keynote Overview
In high-visibility roles, people are often rewarded for endurance, composure, and confidence, even when those qualities are fueled by chronic stress.
In this keynote, Ateeka challenges the idea that presence is something to perform. She explores how nervous system regulation, rather than willpower or discipline, determines our ability to lead, speak, and stay connected under pressure.
Drawing from somatic trauma therapy, Safe Conversations®, and her work with leaders and first-responder families, Ateeka offers a grounded reframe of what sustainable presence actually requires.
This keynote leaves audiences with a deeper understanding of why burnout happens, and how regulation, not resilience culture, supports long-term leadership.
Learning Objectives
Audiences will:
Understand the difference between regulated presence and forced composure
Learn how stress responses shape communication and decision-making
Recognize early signs of burnout in themselves and others
Reframe self-regulation as a leadership capacity, not a personal weakness
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Natural Lifemenship’s Rooted 2025 Conference | Building Bridges: Creating Cultures of Belonging
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