Relational Trauma Recovery Therapy with Annie

You've built an impressive life.
Now let's make it actually feel good.

You can navigate a boardroom without flinching, but your teenager's eye roll sends your whole nervous system into overdrive. You built financial security from nothing, but still check your bank account at 2 AM like the numbers might disappear. You're the one everyone calls in a crisis — and the one who lies awake afterward wondering if you're failing at the things that actually matter.

What no one told you is that these patterns have a name — relational trauma — and they started long before your career did.

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Does This Sound Familiar?

When Your Professional Life Thrives But Your Personal Life Struggles.

Maybe you manage a $50 million portfolio but can't manage a Sunday dinner with your mother without your chest tightening. Maybe you've built a company from nothing but dissolve when your partner raises their voice — not because you're weak, but because your nervous system learned decades ago that raised voices mean danger. That's not a character flaw. That's a relational trauma response — and it's been running the show ever since.

Maybe you're the person everyone leans on — the one who holds it together in the meeting, covers for the colleague, stays calm when the babysitter cancels and the deadline hasn't moved. And maybe the cost of being that person is that you haven't cried in years, or you cry in the car on the way home and no one knows.

These aren't signs of failure. They're signs that the strategies that got you here — the hypervigilance, the over-functioning, the relentless drive — are running out of fuel. Your system is trying to tell you something.

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What Relational Trauma Looks Like in High-Achieving Women

When Achievement Becomes Both Armor and Prison.

A mind that won't quiet

Racing thoughts, 3 AM planning, the inability to be present even in safe moments. The mind that kept you ahead is now the mind that won't let you rest.

Relationships that strain

Managing complex projects is easier than a vulnerable conversation. The closer someone gets, the more you pull back. Intimacy triggers the very defenses that once protected you.

A body that won't stop signaling

Jaw clenching, insomnia, tension headaches. Massages and vacations that don't touch whatever is underneath. Your body has been keeping score for years.

A pace that never slows

Rest feels like falling behind. Even your downtime has a to-do list. You're not sure you remember how to not be productive.

Emotions that ambush

Fine for weeks, then a small trigger detonates something enormous. Rage at your partner over dishes because the real thing is unspeakable. You clean it up afterward, ashamed.

A success that doesn't satisfy

Hit the milestone, feel nothing. Or relief. Then immediately pivot to the next thing. The goalpost keeps moving because the wound beneath it is still there.

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How We'll Work Together

Healing From The Inside Out

I understand these patterns because I've lived them — from using achievement to numb difficult emotions and prove my worth, to learning how to feel genuinely strong and stable from the inside out. From 80-hour weeks that I called 'building something meaningful' to discovering that workaholism was my last lingering survival strategy. I specialize in relational trauma recovery because I know what it costs to build an impressive life on an unhealed foundation — and I know what changes when you finally address it.

Heal your nervous system

Address the hypervigilance at its source so your teenager's mood doesn't trigger fight-or-flight. So you can be in the room without scanning for exits.

Feel genuinely safe in your body

Those tension headaches, the insomnia, the jaw you unclench five times a day — they resolve when your nervous system gets the message that safety isn't dependent on perfect performance.

Move through life from strength, not survival

Make decisions because you want to, not because your amygdala is running the show. Ambition that comes from desire rather than fear feels completely different in your body.

Transform your closest relationships

Stop choosing unavailable partners. Stop over-functioning. Let people actually know you. Discover that being known doesn't have to mean being hurt.

Actually enjoy what you've built

Be present for the promotion, the vacation, the Tuesday morning coffee. The life you worked so hard for deserves to be inhabited, not managed from a distance.

Feel solid from the inside out

Not performing stability. Actually feeling it. The difference between those two things is everything — and it's what this work is designed to create.

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My Approach

A Trauma-Informed Approach

Psychoeducation and pattern recognition

We begin by making the invisible visible. You'll come to understand not just what you do, but why — how your nervous system learned these adaptations and why they made perfect sense given where you came from. Knowledge doesn't heal by itself, but it's the foundation everything else is built on.

Emotion regulation and relational capacity building

We build the internal infrastructure your system never had — the ability to feel difficult emotions without being overwhelmed by them, and the capacity to stay connected to yourself while staying connected to another person. These are learnable skills, not fixed traits.

Trauma processing and integration

Using EMDR and somatic approaches, we process the stored material — the memories, body sensations, and implicit beliefs — that are keeping your nervous system locked in an old story. This is not reliving the past. It's releasing its hold on the present.

Corrective relational experiencing

The therapeutic relationship itself becomes a laboratory. For many clients, the experience of being deeply seen, held without judgment, and met with consistency is itself transformative — because it provides what relational wounding took away.

Is This Right For You?

You might be ready for this work if…

— You've achieved everything you set out to and still feel "Is this all there is?" — and you're starting to suspect the answer is bigger than a new goal.

— Previous therapy felt surface-level. You read the books, you did the worksheets, and something remained untouched. You want root-cause work.

— Your personal relationships are harder than your professional ones. You manage teams brilliantly but struggle to let your partner see you cry.

— You use work, achievement, or caretaking to avoid feeling. You know this, and you're tired of knowing it without being able to stop.

— There's a persistent sense of not-enoughness that no amount of success quiets — and you're starting to wonder if it's telling you something important.

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About Annie

A clinician who goes where talk therapy alone can't reach.

Clinical Hours

15,000+ hours with driven and ambitious women in leadership

Education

Two undergraduate degrees from Brown University; Master’s from the California Institute of Integral Studies

License

LMFT — Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist

Modalities

EMDR, IFS parts work, somatic & nervous system approaches

Published Author

WW Norton author; Psychology Today columnist

Speaker

Keynote speaker at state counseling associations; grand rounds, corporate & government presentations

Founded

Boutique trauma-informed therapy center — grew to multi-million, multi-state practice with 24 employees across two teams. Successfully exited through acquisition in 2025.

Featured In

NPR, NBC, Forbes, The Boston Globe, The Information, Business Insider, Inc, and more

Specialization

Relational trauma recovery for high-achieving women — the intersection of early attachment wounds and professional success

What Clients Say

In their words.

I believe Annie is the best at what she does and for what I needed help with, specifically. She literally changed my life.

— L.K., Therapy Client

Annie is a highly intuitive and empathic therapist. She is intelligent and personable with a wonderful ability to integrate understanding, comfort, and advice. She really sees what makes people tick and is able to help people navigate their own internal terrain.

— K.G., Therapy Client

Annie is one of the most insightful therapists I have ever worked with. She has a remarkable ability to see the bigger picture and provide clarity and direction.

— B.M., Therapy Client

Annie has the rare ability to be warm and empathetic while also being fiercely honest. She doesn't let you stay comfortable in patterns that aren't serving you, and she does it with so much care that you actually want to do the hard work.

— J., Therapy Client

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You've built an impressive life.Now let's make it actually feel good.

When Your Professional Life Thrives But Your Personal Life Struggles.

When Achievement Becomes Both Armor and Prison.

A mind that won't quiet

Relationships that strain

A body that won't stop signaling

A pace that never slows

Emotions that ambush

A success that doesn't satisfy

Healing From The Inside Out

A Trauma-Informed Approach

Psychoeducation and pattern recognition

Emotion regulation and relational capacity building

Trauma processing and integration

Corrective relational experiencing

You might be ready for this work if…

A clinician who goes where talk therapy alone can't reach.

In their words.

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