Dr. Anne Marie Chomat, MD, PhD, MPH

Dr. Anne Marie Chomat, MD, PhD, MPH is a physician trained in Internal Medicine whose work integrates medical insight with systems-based, somatic, and relational approaches to healing and wellbeing.

At Madrona, Anne Marie offers individualized, non-clinical healing guidance that complements medical and counselling care. She supports people seeking time and space to make sense of complex health histories, life transitions, or experiences of depletion and disconnection — with the aim of restoring coherence, vitality, personal agency, and trust in the body’s innate wisdom.

She is particularly passionate about supporting individuals who feel that something deeper is asking for attention — and who are ready to reconnect with themselves, their inner direction, and a renewed sense of vitality, meaning, and purpose.

Her approach is transdisciplinary and integrative, rooted in deep listening, pattern recognition, and an understanding of health as shaped by biological, emotional, relational, and environmental influences. Drawing on her training in medicine, coaching, somatic practice, and contemplative traditions, she helps clients recognize patterns across their health and life experience and reconnect with the inner resources that support healing and resilience.

Sessions may include guided inquiry, reflective practices, and somatic awareness, and — where meaningful and appropriate — elements of ritual, symbolism, or deeper reflection may be woven into the work.

By choice, Anne Marie's work is non-clinical and does not include medical diagnosis, assessment, or treatment. It is designed to complement — not replace — care provided by licensed healthcare professionals.

Anne Marie also draws from her training in woman-centered transformational coaching and group facilitation and has extensive experience holding individual and group spaces for reflection, healing, and life transition. Her work is further informed by embodied, movement-based, and depth-oriented practices that support nervous system regulation and integration.

Anne Marie trained in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases and completed a Master of Public Health to expand her focus beyond individual physiology toward the social, cultural, and structural influences on health. Her doctoral research explored intergenerational stress and its impacts on maternal and infant health across biological, psychological, socio-cultural, and historical dimensions.

For over 25 years she has worked alongside individuals and communities across five continents, with long-term engagement in the Global South. Since 2009, she has co-founded and helped lead Buena Semilla, a grassroots Indigenous Maya women-led initiative in Guatemala focused on collective healing, cultural repair, and the restoration of personal and collective agency. This work has profoundly shaped her understanding of health as place-based, relational, and inseparable from identity, culture, and belonging.

In her free time, Anne Marie can often be found lost in play with her children, painting, writing, dancing, hiking, or swimming — connecting deeply with life, nature, and others. She treasures time with her two children, her husband, and friends old and new, and values the cross-cultural perspectives, relationships, and shared reflections on life that continue to shape her path. She is grateful to call Salt Spring Island home.

Anne Marie offers sessions in English, Spanish, and French.