Clinical Method Framework · Annie Wright, LMFT
The Signals Framework
Annie’s framework for distinguishing trauma response from accurate threat detection in driven women. What’s a signal versus what’s the past speaking now.
Annie’s framework for distinguishing trauma response from accurate threat detection in driven women. What’s a signal versus what’s the past speaking now.
How The Signals Framework Works
The Signals Framework is one of Annie’s core clinical tools, applied in session and in coursework. It’s designed to translate, distinguish, or regulate where most frameworks generalize.
- What’s a signal. accurate threat detection in the present. Information about this person, this situation, this dynamic.
- What’s the past speaking now. trauma response activated by surface similarity to historical danger. Information about then, not now.
- How to tell the difference. check the body, check the timing, check the context. Signals are specific; trauma responses are categorical.
Who The Signals Framework Serves
driven women working with the proverbial house of life. Specifically, leaders, physicians, entrepreneurs, executives, and the women who have built impressive external lives but feel a heaviness internally.
Where The Signals Framework Lives
The Signals Framework appears in the following places in Annie’s clinical work:
- Individual therapy with Annie
- Executive coaching with Annie
- Annie’s forthcoming book, The Everything Years (W.W. Norton, 2027)
Citation
If you reference this framework in your work, please cite as:
Wright, Annie. (2026). The Signals Framework. Annie Wright, LMFT. Retrieved from https://anniewright.com/signals-framework/
