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.
Therapy with Annie
Helping ambitious women heal relational trauma and create thriving lives on solid foundations.
For a select number of clients residing in California or Florida, I offer weekly therapy that focuses on healing the invisible wounds of relational trauma. Together, we’ll address the patterns and challenges that stem from your past so you can create a life that feels as good on the inside as it looks on the outside.
What does this mean?
Relational trauma—often caused by emotionally unavailable, narcissistic, or personality-disordered parents—can leave lasting impacts on your sense of self and how you navigate relationships. It shapes how you cope, connect, and strive, often creating “cracks” in your psychological foundation.
For ambitious women, these cracks frequently show up as:
– Perfectionism and overachievement that mask deeper insecurities.
– Struggles with self-worth and self-trust, despite outward success.
– Anxiety, burnout, or difficulty slowing down and being present.
– Challenges maintaining boundaries or building healthy relationships.
Even as you achieve great things professionally, these underlying patterns can hold you back, leaving you feeling stuck, disconnected, or like the foundation of your life isn’t as solid as it could be.
Our Work Together
As a relational trauma recovery specialist, I combine personal insight and professional expertise to guide ambitious women like you toward meaningful, lasting change. Instead of dismantling your hard-earned success, we’ll reinforce the ground beneath it, so everything you’ve built can be sustained and truly enjoyed. In our therapy work, we will:
– Heal your early relational wounds: Address the root causes of anxiety, perfectionism, and relational struggles.
– Develop healthier coping mechanisms: Shift away from achievement as a survival strategy to emotional balance and self-compassion.
– Build genuine self-trust: Strengthen your sense of worth and confidence, independent of external success.
– Navigate relationships effectively: Establish boundaries and cultivate deeper, healthier connections
– Create alignment: Build a life that feels balanced, fulfilling, and authentically aligned with who you are.
This process respects the complexity of your history, often starting with the smallest, most manageable steps to help your nervous system gradually accept that change can be safe.
The foundation of my work is rooted in evidence-based, trauma-informed practices tailored to meet the unique needs of ambitious women. Together, we’ll work through four core pillars of relational trauma recovery.
Before we tackle major shifts, we begin by carefully understanding your blueprint, stabilizing your inner environment, and layering change step-by-step.
Research-Backed Psychoeducation
I’ll help you understand how your early experiences shaped your current patterns, from your coping mechanisms to your relationship dynamics. With this knowledge, we’ll reframe your story and create actionable pathways to healing.
Evidence-Based Skills-Building
From emotional regulation to authentic self-expression, we’ll focus on developing skills you may have missed in your early relational experiences. These tools will support you in every aspect of your personal and professional life.
Trauma-Informed Processing
We’ll work at a pace that respects your emotional readiness and professional demands, processing relational trauma both cognitively and somatically. This isn’t just about understanding your past—it’s about freeing yourself from patterns that no longer serve you.
Reparative Relational Experiences
Therapy with me isn’t a blank-slate approach. I provide an attuned, authentic therapeutic relationship that models healthy connection while maintaining professional boundaries. This creates a safe space for growth and healing.
Is This Work for You?
You may already see yourself clearly from what I’ve already shared on this page. Or maybe you saw yourself clearly when you took my signature quiz. Or maybe, still, you can see aspects of your lived experience in the 240+ essays on my blog.
But here are some other signs you may benefit from weekly therapy with me:
You’re successful professionally but feel stuck, anxious, or like an impostor.
Your relationships don’t match the level of success in other areas of your life.
You rely on work, achievement, or other behaviors (e.g., food, shopping, exercise) to cope with emotional pain.
You struggle with perfectionism, people-pleasing, or boundary-setting.
You often feel emotionally exhausted or overwhelmed, even when everything in your life seems “fine” on the surface.
You feel disconnected from yourself despite outward accomplishments.
You came from a family with narcissistic, emotionally unavailable, or personality-disordered parents.
You’re ready to stop “patching cracks” and build a foundation that truly supports your life.
If some part of you resonates with this, trust that intuition—it’s often the first step toward transformation.
How to Work with Me
- One-on-One Therapy: For clients in California or Florida, I offer weekly therapy sessions tailored to ambitious women navigating relational trauma recovery. If my caseload is full, my team of trauma specialists at Evergreen Counseling is ready to support you.
- Fixing the Foundations – My Signature Course (Launching 2025): For women outside these states, those seeking a structured program, or those wanting to work at their own pace, my upcoming online course will offer a comprehensive, trauma-informed roadmap. It will help you understand old imprints, build internal safety step-by-step, and integrate new patterns until genuine well-being feels both possible and sustainable.
Ready to Take the Next Step?
If you’re ready to explore working together, reach out to my office, and a member of my team will connect with you. Whether through therapy or my online course, I’m here to help you create a life built on a foundation that is as strong as you are.
And no matter what path you take, remember that slow, progressive and respectful shifts can yield profound, lasting changes. Your foundation can be rebuilt, your achievements can feel secure, and you can inhabit a life that reflects your true worthiness and resilience.
And no matter what, whether you choose to work with me as your therapist or not, I want to leave you with these words which have guided my work, buoyed my soul, and given me hope for my own relational trauma recovery journey since I first read them:
“She could never go back and make some of the details pretty. All she could do was move forward and make the whole beautiful.”
TERRI ST. CLOUD
Wherever you are in the world as you read these words right now, I wish you well.
Warmly,
