Before she retired, Dr. Schiebert was a psychologist in the Emergency Department (ED) at the medical center of one of the country’s most respected major HMO’s. There, she evaluated for safety, determined types of treatments, assessed capacity and cognitive impairment, and provided feedback and support for families of patients in the ED. In addition, Dr. Schiebert also worked in the medical center’s Chemical Dependency Department where she treated patients challenged by trauma, chemical dependency, codependency, and dual diagnosis.

While she worked at the HMO, Ann had an excellent success rate in helping families turn their situations around, and she was highly sought after for her work. In her private practice in California, she found it rewarding to facilitate patients in discovering their wonderful, authentic selves, and getting them back to a healthy mindset. Another of Dr. Schiebert’s areas of expertise was helping people in unhappy romantic relationships investigate how they got in their current situation, how to reconsider the “path to romance,” and how to create happier long-term relationships.

Ann’s teaching experience pertaining to Clinical Skills and Psychopathology during graduate school gave her an ability to interact with a variety of audiences and to be comfortable doing so. As a psychologist, she uses this “gift” to teach groups of between thirty and forty patients on the topics of communication, how to work a program of recovery and healthy relationships.

Due to her contributions to society at large, Ann is also a member of “Who’s Who in America”.

Ann has penned a series of books titled Let’s Make a Contract. She has four in the series thus far, having to do with getting teens through substance abuse, getting them through high school, getting teens through and past the opioid pandemic, and a book about how to get through unhappy romantic relationships. She’s been up close and personal to all those matters in her own life. If she were a member of a tribe, her special role would be healer, and rightfully so.

In her spare time Ann enjoys traveling. After she retired from the HMO where she worked for 20 years, Ann and her husband moved from California to Colorado Springs. She is now licensed in both States as a Clinical Psychologist. The clients from her California private practice now receive therapy via telehealth and she visits them once or twice a year. Ann and her husband currently live with their two ragamuffin cats, Biscuit and Teddy. She is the mother of three adult children.