Dr. Mary Anderson is a licensed psychologist, author, and sought-after speaker with over a decade of experience helping patients become happier, healthier, and sustainably high-achieving. Dr. Anderson earned her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, with a specialty in Health Psychology, from the University of Florida and completed her internship and post-doctoral fellowship at the VA Boston Healthcare System, with appointments at Harvard Medical School and Boston University School of Medicine. She is the author of the 2024 book The Happy High Achiever (from Hachette Book Group).
Speech topics
Becoming a Happy Higher Achiever
Are you an ambitious person? Have you been taught that anxiety is the price of admission for your success? Clinical psychologist and author of the book The Happy High Achiever, Dr. Mary Anderson will share actionable, science-based strategies to tackle the pressures and pitfalls common to high-performing individuals, including: chronic stress, anxiety, self-doubt, perfectionism, burnout, and more. She explains how to overcome the three most persistent unhelpful ways of thinking that plague high achievers and implement the four self-care fundamentals crucial for sustainable success. In this inspiring talk, Dr. Anderson will help you learn the secrets to transforming into the happy high achiever you possess the power to be.
Stress Management: Essential Strategies to Boost Calm and Confidence
Participants will learn science-based strategies and skills to help them improve their stress management, so they can be consistently high-performing in the short term and sustainably high-achieving long term. Clinical psychologist and author of the forthcoming book The Happy High Achiever, Dr. Mary Anderson will lead an interactive session demonstrating actionable techniques to effectively strengthen self-talk and optimize self-care, specifically-tailored to enhance coping with stressful situations and busy schedules, to boost calm and confidence.