Annie Wright, LMFT
Relational Trauma Specialist & Executive Coach
Your mind keeps trying to stitch two versions of them together.
Seam by seam. And they will not fit. This course is where that stops.
What happened to you has a specific clinical profile. And your recovery deserves a map that actually matches the terrain.
In my work with clients, I've watched brilliant, perceptive people spend years trying to recover from a relationship that didn't follow the rules of normal human cruelty. They weren't dealing with someone who got defensive or occasionally selfish. They were dealing with someone who had constructed an entire persona, deliberately, and targeted them specifically.
What I see consistently is this: the standard narcissistic abuse recovery framework helps, but something doesn't quite fit. Because the mechanism of sociopathic or antisocial abuse is categorically distinct. There's no ambivalence, no underlying wound they're working from, no real relationship you were actually in. What you trusted was a construction. And that specific truth, once it fully lands, changes the nature of the recovery work entirely.
This course exists because that distinction matters clinically. And your healing deserves that precision.
Does any of this sound like you?
These aren't symptoms. They're rational responses to something irrational.
You deserved clarity then. You deserve it now.
- Replaying the relationship looking for the missing clue
- Wondering if you exaggerated, misunderstood, or caused it
- Feeling ashamed that you trusted someone dangerous
- Trying to use narcissistic abuse content that never fully fits
- Living with a body that still feels on alert
- Naming the clinical pattern without minimizing it
- Understanding why your body is still reacting
- Separating self-blame from survival intelligence
- Rebuilding trust in your own perception
- Moving forward without needing perfect closure
Not another narcissistic abuse framework. This is specific.
Built on actual antisocial personality disorder research
Most recovery content blends narcissistic and sociopathic abuse into one framework. They're not the same. This course walks you through the clinical picture of antisocial personality disorder, the predatory targeting, the constructed persona, the absence of conscience, and why that distinction changes the recovery map entirely.
Designed for the aftermath nobody talks about
Shame about being targeted. Grief for a relationship that may never have been real. A body that can't get the memo to stand down. The Wreckage Inventory, Protective Intelligence framework, and self-trust practices in this course are built specifically for this terrain, not adapted from a general trauma course.
You work through it privately, on your schedule
There's no cohort, no group call where you have to perform your recovery. You move through 10 lessons and a 118-page companion workbook at exactly the pace that works for your life. Lifetime access means you can return to any lesson as many times as you need it.
A smaller sibling to Fixing the Foundations: fewer phases, still a complete arc.
3 modules · 10 lessons · 118-page companion workbook
The clinical picture of antisocial personality disorder, the predatory playbook, and the moment of clarity: naming what happened without minimizing or catastrophizing it. Drawing on the work of Martha Stout, PhD, psychologist and author of The Sociopath Next Door, and Robert Hare, PhD, forensic psychologist and creator of the Hare Psychopathy Checklist, researchers who spent careers documenting exactly this pattern.
The trauma bond, the body after a predatory relationship, the grief of mourning someone who may never have truly existed, and the Wreckage Inventory. Grounded in the somatic trauma work of Peter Levine, PhD, developer of Somatic Experiencing, and Bessel van der Kolk, MD, psychiatrist and trauma researcher, author of The Body Keeps the Score.
Rebuild self-trust as a daily evidence-based practice, build your Protective Intelligence framework, and understand what genuine post-traumatic growth can look like from here. Drawing on the recovery stage model developed by Judith Herman, MD, psychiatrist and author of Trauma and Recovery.
Imagine this.
Three months from now, you wake up and the first thought isn't about them. It's not a replay, not a loop, not another attempt to find the seam in the story. The silence where that thought used to live is a little disorienting at first, you've been carrying it so long it felt like part of you. It wasn't.
You don't need them to have been worse than they were, or better than they were, or anything other than exactly what the clinical evidence says they were: someone without a conscience who targeted you specifically because you were perceptive, trustworthy, and good at giving people the benefit of the doubt. Those qualities didn't make you naive. They made you human. You know that now in your body, not just your head.
Your healing doesn't wait. But it can wait for you.
Your nervous system stays calibrated to detect threat.
The hypervigilance that kept you safe during the relationship doesn't automatically resolve when it ends. Without a clinical framework to understand why your body is still responding this way, you carry it forward, into new relationships, into work environments, into moments of ordinary safety that feel inexplicably dangerous.
You carry the self-blame into every relationship that follows.
Without separating survival intelligence from complicity, the question "why didn't I see it?" becomes the frame through which you evaluate your own trustworthiness. You don't stop trusting them, you stop trusting yourself. That costs more than the original relationship did.
The pattern finds a new face.
In my work with clients, I've seen what happens when someone walks away from a predatory relationship without the specific clinical map: they remain vulnerable to the same targeting. Not because they're broken, but because they haven't built the Protective Intelligence framework that lets them vet, with discernment rather than fear, the next person who shows up with a constructed persona and a ready pity story.
What $197 actually gets you.
118-page clinical companion workbook, the largest of the mini-course set
Two ways to get started.
Sane After the Sociopath
- 10 clinically grounded lessons
- 118-page companion workbook
- 3-module clinical recovery arc
- Somatic regulation tools specific to predatory relationship aftermath
- Wreckage Inventory practice
- Protective Intelligence framework
- Lifetime access, all future updates included
- Self-paced, no cohort required
The work speaks for itself.
"You opened my eyes to relational trauma. I FINALLY understand my truth. And I can do the work WAY better because of that."
"This trauma is often not understood at all, or even worse, we're gaslighted out of our rightful anger and grief. Annie names it exactly."
"Narcissistic abuse, gaslighting, as if nothing happened. And a repeating pattern we're working hard to learn and unlearn. Annie's framework is the first thing that actually named it correctly."
"Your blog posts have provided me with so much clarity in a short period of time. It really feels like they were written just for me, the clinical precision is exactly what I needed."
"This work doesn't just reach the people who take it. It reaches the clinicians who refer it."
"Annie is an EMDR genius. She is caring and kind and brilliant. Exceptional clinician."
"I've been working on my relational trauma for a decade and recently became a therapist myself, I regularly send clients to Annie's work. The clinical framework is exactly right."
Annie Wright, LMFT
In my 15,000+ clinical hours working with driven, ambitious people, including Silicon Valley executives, physicians, and founders, I've encountered a specific kind of confusion that doesn't resolve on its own: the confusion that follows a relationship with someone who didn't have a conscience. That particular aftermath has a distinct clinical signature. It was underserved by the available content. That gap is why this course exists.
I'm a licensed psychotherapist (LMFT #95719) and trauma-informed executive coach. I'm the founder and former CEO of Evergreen Counseling, a multimillion-dollar trauma-informed therapy center I built, scaled, and successfully exited. I'm a regular contributor to Psychology Today, and my expert commentary has appeared in USA Today, Forbes, Business Insider, Inc., NBC, and The Information. I'm currently writing my first book with W.W. Norton.
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