You've built an impressive life. I want to help you finally feel good inside of it.
I work with driven, ambitious women who have built extraordinary lives — and still wake up at 3 AM wondering why none of it feels like enough.
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The strategies that built your career have started to cost you your life.
You're extraordinarily capable. You can hold a crisis together, read a room in seconds, and build things that most people can't. But privately — the version of you that exists when no one is watching is exhausted in a way that a promotion or a vacation can't touch.
That gap between how your life looks and how it actually feels has a name. It's not burnout. It's not anxiety. It's the predictable result of growing up in an environment where achievement was the only reliable currency — and your nervous system never got the memo that you're safe now.
Most therapy isn't designed for someone who can articulate her patterns with clinical precision while still being completely run by them. That's exactly what I specialize in.
Driven women who are ready to stop choosing between their ambition and their peace.
You built the thing. It's working. But rest feels like falling behind — and somewhere underneath that, there's a fear you can't quite name. Like the moment you stop moving, something you've been outrunning will catch up. You don't know what it is. You just know you can't let it.
In every room, you're the one people look to. Decisive. Composed. Authoritative. What they don't see: the rehearsal, the 2 AM replay, the private fear that everything you've built is one bad quarter away from being exposed as not enough. The gap between who you present and who you privately feel is exhausting.
You are the person everyone calls. The one who holds it together. But when someone asks what you need — there's a blankness. A hollow space where the answer should be. You've been meeting everyone else's needs for so long that your own have become genuinely hard to locate.
The house looks perfect from the outside. The career, the relationship, the life — it all looks like something to aspire to. But privately, there's a hum. A low-grade sense that the foundation is shakier than it looks. That any moment, the floor could give. That the person inside the impressive life is different from the one everyone else sees.
I know this territory because I've lived every chapter of it.
Including the chapters I'm most qualified to help you with because I got them wrong first.
I grew up on a small island off the coast of Maine in a home that was dangerous. One parent who could love you one moment and endanger you the next. When people aren't safe and poverty is a constant threat, you reach for the one thing that can't be taken: achievement. I was valedictorian. The first in my family to go to college — let alone the Ivy League.
In 2005, I was serving in the Peace Corps in Uzbekistan when the Andijon massacre occurred and we were evacuated. For the first time, I couldn't outrun the pain. I bought a one-way ticket to Esalen Institute in Big Sur. What was supposed to be a month became four years of healing, apprenticing, and studying. I did the work I needed to become whole and healthy — and from there went on to graduate school to train as the therapist I'd desperately needed when I was younger.
In 2019, I founded a boutique trauma-informed therapy center in the Bay Area. My daughter was three months old. In under five years, I built it into a multi-state, multimillion-dollar company with 24 employees. And then the cracks reappeared: a severe health scare, missed time with my daughter, a marriage badly strained. I recognized there were still fractures in my proverbial psychological foundation that were threatening to destroy the house of life I'd built. I went back into round two of intensive healing work: EMDR, IFS, and ketamine-assisted psychotherapy.
I sold the company and moved my family back to New England for a quieter, more values-aligned way of life. In 2024, W.W. Norton came to me to write a book — which I tell you not to brag, but because it's evidence that a big, beautiful work life is still possible even when the workaholism is fixed. You don't lose your edge. You don't lose your drive. You just do it from a different kind of fuel.
I keynote at state counseling conferences and hospital grand rounds, give corporate and government presentations, run a Substack read by 20,000+ women, and see a small caseload of private therapy and executive coaching clients. I drop my daughter at the bus every morning and cuddle her to sleep every night. The ambition is still here. It just no longer runs on fear.
Not a smaller life. The same life — with a foundation that can actually hold it.
The anxiety quiets — not because you've stopped caring, but because you're not operating from survival mode anymore.
You stop choosing between your ambition and your peace. They were never actually in competition.
You find out who you are underneath the performance. It turns out she's someone you actually like.
Rest becomes possible without guilt. Your body stops treating stillness as a threat.
Work becomes one meaningful part of your life — not the only place you feel competent and wanted.
Your relationships shift. Not because you're performing better in them — but because you're finally present for them in a way that was never possible when survival was the operating system.
In their words.
"Annie has a way of being in the world that is beautifully intuitive, warm, and fierce in equal measure. She gets right to the heart of an issue with a kindness that few people embody. The work changed not just how I lead — it changed how I live."
"I'd built and sold a company. I'd done years of therapy. I thought I'd done the work. Annie helped me understand there was a layer I'd never touched. The EMDR cracked something open that talk therapy never reached."
"Working with Annie completely changed the way I relate to myself. I came in running on fumes. For the first time in my adult life, I feel genuinely okay — not performing okay."
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Four ways we can work together — no matter where you are in the world.
Weekly sessions and EMDR intensives. California and Florida residents. Deep relational work at the level where patterns are actually stored.
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