Ann G. Thomas, Ed.D. is an innovator and leader in the area of journeying mindfully into the elder years. She has worked with women, both as a psychotherapist and as an educator/group leader to help them gain and perfect the skills and tools they need in order to embrace this journey.

Dr. Thomas' own personal journey began first in the South where she graduated from high school in Atlanta GA before migrating north to earn her BA in English from Western Reserve University in Cleveland Ohio. While this educational background would eventually prove invaluable, it wasn't immediately popular in the market place and she moved to the northeast and went on to earn three advanced degrees, one each in early childhood education, psychotherapy, and organizational development. Along the way she had two children, each of whom she is still willing to rave about to any who will listen, although her two grandchildren seem every bit as brilliant and charming as she remembers her children to have been at the same age.

Dr. Thomas' professional career has been varied over the years. She developed a multi-faceted preschool program that was utilized as one of the models for Head Start, directed a non-graded educational program for a public school system, administered a re-entry program within a university, coordinated a program for parents for a child abuse prevention and treatment agency, and developed curriculum for early childhood education. 

In addition Dr. Thomas has owned a home for the frail elderly, worked as a consultant to Women Inc, a drug treatment center in Boston, owned and directed a Consulting Firm that provided services to communities and organizations, and has maintained, since 1969, a private practice as a psychotherapist. She has lectured nationally and internationally to audiences ranging from church groups, college students, business men and women contemplating early retirement, Chiropractors, Psychologists and Medical Doctors who treat the elderly, and general audiences interested in their own aging process. As a storyteller she has entertained and enlightened audiences ranging from retirement communities to passengers on a cruise ship.

It is this wide variety of experiences that Dr. Thomas brings to her writing, whether it is a children's story, a magazine article, a romance, a short story or her most recent non-fiction release, The Women We Become. She is currently living and working in California.