Annie Wright - Relational Trauma Specialist
Helping ambitious and driven professionals heal relational trauma and build thriving lives on solid foundations.
Licensed Psychotherapist | Trauma-Informed Executive Coach | W.W. Norton Author
Helping ambitious women finally feel as good as their resume looks.
Welcome
I'm Annie Wright.
I specialize in something most therapists don’t understand: why driven and ambitious women can build outwardly impressive lives that feel painful and exhausting to live within.
Maybe you’re a tech executive who dazzles your board but has panic attacks on Sunday nights. Maybe you save other people’s children in the ER but lie awake wondering if you’re failing your own. Maybe you negotiate million-dollar deals but can’t tell your partner what you actually need. Maybe you manage complex teams with precision but get completely derailed by a cold text from your mother.
Underneath all of it — the version of you no one at work has ever seen. The one who opened her laptop not because anything was urgent, but because the screen felt safer than the silence. You’re not broken. That drive was a brilliant adaptation — your nervous system figured out early that staying impressive meant staying safe. It built your career. It’s also what’s running you into the ground.
My work — therapy, coaching, courses, my Substack community — helps you repair the proverbial foundation underneath what you’ve built: the neural pathways, beliefs, and patterns shaped by your earliest relationships. I know this work from the inside — not just from 15,000 clinical hours, but because I built my own life on an unrepaired foundation before I learned how to fix it.
More about Annie
Does Your Life Look Better Than It Feels?
A 3-minute quiz for driven women who’ve built impressive lives and are quietly wondering why it doesn’t feel the way they expected.
You’ve got the career. Maybe the family, the home, the title. People tell you how “amazing” your life is and you nod, because from the outside, they’re right.
But at 11 PM, when the house is quiet, you’re staring at the ceiling. Or scanning your inbox one more time. Or lying next to someone you love and feeling completely alone.
This isn’t about gratitude. You’re grateful. This is about a gap between what your life looks like and what it actually feels like — and most driven women have no idea why it’s there.
This quiz will show you what’s underneath.
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No spam. Your results + a free guide with practical tools. That’s it.
Ways to Work With Annie
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Strong and Stable
Weekly support for ambitious and driven women who wake up at 3 AM with racing hearts, who can handle everyone else's crises but don't know who to call when you're falling apart, who've built impressive lives that somehow feel exhausting to live inside. Essays that name what's been invisible, workbooks that actually shift what feels stuck, personal letters about the real work beneath the work, and honest Q&As where you can ask your burning questions (anonymously, always) and get a therapist's answers.
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