Annie Wright - Your Guide To Relational Trauma Recovery
I help adult children of mood- and personality-disordered parents overcome the impacts of their past so they can have the best adulthood possible.
Guiding ambitious women to sustainable success.
Executive Coaching
You’ve built a remarkable career—people around you see the titles, the deadlines you meet, the teams you lead.
On paper, you might seem unstoppable. Yet inside, you could be juggling lingering doubts, threads of exhaustion, or the weight of feeling there has to be a better way. Maybe you’re wondering: How can I keep thriving without sacrificing my well-being or losing myself in the process?
My executive coaching program is designed for ambitious women like you—women who value success but want to experience it with greater ease, authenticity, and genuine fulfillment. Instead of doubling down on performance at the cost of your health or relationships, we’ll integrate strategic coaching with an understanding of the subtle emotional forces that shape how you lead and live.
A Different Kind of Guidance
Coaching With a Trauma-Informed Lens
You may already excel at pushing through. You’ve learned how to deliver, how to outperform and over-prepare. But when ambition becomes a survival strategy, the cost can be burnout, emotional disconnection, or a creeping sense of emptiness. That’s where my coaching approach differs: While we won’t be diving deeply into your childhood wounds the way therapy does, I bring a trauma-informed perspective to understanding the protective patterns you use day-to-day. Our work will remain forward-focused and strategic, but with empathy for how real-life stressors can trigger ingrained habits.
What We Focus On
Practical Steps for Sustainable Achievement: We’ll examine your current routines—how you schedule your day, respond to pressures, lead your team, or manage external demands—looking for ways to refine those patterns to maintain performance without overload.
Emotional Literacy Without Going Deep: We won’t unravel long-standing traumas here—that’s therapy territory. However, we will pay attention to emotional cues in the present moment. Together, we’ll find ways to spot and address stress before it escalates, giving you more clarity and self-possession.
Elevating Your Leadership Presence: Maybe you’re managing a large staff or navigating complex stakeholder relationships. Our coaching time targets the communication, boundary-setting, and decision-making skills that help you guide others effectively, while also protecting your well-being.
Integrating Personal and Professional Realities: Whether you’re caring for family, exploring next career moves, or juggling multiple roles, coaching helps you align your ambitions with your real life so that each success feels sustainable, not precarious.
Who Benefits from Coaching Versus Therapy?
Coaching fits the woman who’s high-functioning and oriented toward growth but doesn’t feel the need (or readiness) to examine deep unresolved traumas. Instead, you want immediate, actionable strategies to handle current stress and support your continuous success. You might notice you’re drifting close to burnout or longing for more space to breathe. Coaching is ideal for clarifying goals, sharpening leadership skills, and creating better day-to-day self-management—without unraveling your entire past.
Therapy is the path for those dealing with deeper emotional wounds or significant mental distress: If your “House of Life” feels like it’s on the verge of collapse, or if you suspect childhood relational trauma is majorly impacting your relationships and self-worth, therapy is more appropriate. My therapy work includes robust intake, attachment analysis, and processing deeper layers of trauma. That’s not what coaching is designed to do.
By contrast, in coaching, we stay in the realm of present challenges, solutions, and personal evolution. It’s about fortifying your “house” as it is now, making it roomier and more livable, rather than renovating the foundation from scratch.
What Our Coaching Sessions Look Like
Weekly or Bi-Weekly Virtual Sessions
We’ll meet for 50 minutes, focusing on practical topics. Think of each session as a strategic check-in: analyzing the prior week’s challenges, exploring new techniques for stress management or team leadership, adjusting your approach as necessary.
Customized Action Plans
Instead of standard “to-do lists,” we’ll co-create a plan that fits your life rhythms. This might mean scheduling “no meeting” blocks to reset, employing brief mindfulness strategies before big presentations, or introducing new communication habits that prevent drain and reactivity.
Support Between Sessions
A big presentation on the horizon? A sudden conflict with a colleague? You’ll have access to concise, strategic check-ins where you can refine your plan on the fly. Coaching is flexible and responsive to real-time demands, ensuring you apply insights when they matter most.
LET’S WORK TOGETHER
If you’re interested in executive coaching with me, please get in touch with my offices, and a member of my team will get back to you right away to schedule us. I look forward to being of support to you.
