She is also a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP), certified by the Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute. Dr. Anderson has had a long career in helping people overcome chronic pain. She began treating patients who experience chronic pain in 1979 under the tutelage of Dr. John Sarno at the Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine-NYU Medical Center. John Sarno taught Dr. Anderson about TMS and how to cure patients of chronic pain. She worked as part of the Psychology Staff at the Rusk Institute until 1987 when she began working in a private practice and leading psychoanalytic training programs. Her private practice focuses on psychotherapy and psychoanalysis treatments for adults as well as using Somatic Experiencing. (source)