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Annie Wright is a licensed psychotherapist, EMDR-certified clinician, and relational trauma recovery specialist with 15,000 clinical hours. She specializes in the intersection of high achievement and childhood relational trauma in women. Learn more about Annie →
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT #95719)
15,000+ direct clinical hours
California · Connecticut · Washington DC · Florida · Maine · Maryland · New Hampshire · New Jersey · Texas · Virginia · Washington
If you already know your pattern but can't seem to actually change it, my self-paced course Picking Better Partners closes the gap between knowing and choosing differently.
Creator of House of Life™ and Fixing the Foundations™
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The Everything Years (W.W. Norton)
Founder & former CEO, Evergreen Counseling
Regular contributor to Psychology Today. Expert commentary has appeared in USA Today, Forbes, Business Insider, Inc., NBC, and The Information.
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Annie Wright, LMFT
LMFT · Relational Trauma Specialist · W.W. Norton Author
Helping driven women finally feel as good as their résumé looks.
Annie Wright is an EMDR-certified licensed psychotherapist and relational trauma specialist with over 15,000 clinical hours, and she's been in practice since 2013. Trained in EMDR, psychodynamic, and somatic modalities, she is licensed in 11 states (California, Connecticut, Washington DC, Florida, Maine, Maryland, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Texas, Virginia, and Washington). Annie works with ambitious and driven women from relational trauma backgrounds, and everything she writes about is field-tested across thousands of clinical sessions. She is the founder and former CEO of Evergreen Counseling, a multimillion-dollar trauma-informed therapy center she built, scaled, and successfully exited, and is currently writing her first book, The Everything Years: Navigating the Pressure and Promise of Your Thirties, with W.W. Norton (2027). A regular contributor to Psychology Today, her expert commentary has appeared in USA Today, Forbes, Business Insider, Inc., NBC, and The Information.
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