A LIBRARY FOR WOMEN FOUNDERS
When Your Company Is Your Identity
On founder burnout, co-founder betrayal, and the identity work of building something that has become you.
Most founder content treats the company as the object of analysis. The clinical work — the work I do — treats the founder as the object of analysis, and the company as a mirror.
If you are a woman founder or CEO and have started to notice that the drive that built your company is also the thing slowly hollowing you out, you are in good company. The architecture of building something — pre-PMF, growth-stage, or post-exit — places extraordinary pressure on identity, attachment, and the nervous system. Most of the women I work with in this seat are carrying things their boards, investors, and even co-founders will never see.
The library below names that private terrain. Co-founder narcissism. Founder identity collapse. The isolation of altitude. The medical trauma of bodies that break while you build. Not the LinkedIn version. The real one.
WORK WITH ANNIE
Pathways into one-to-one care
Annie is a licensed therapist (LMFT #95719) and trauma-informed executive coach. The pathways below are the direct routes for this audience.
One-to-One
Therapy for Female Founders
A clinician’s guide to working with women founders, from a clinician who is one.
One-to-One
Therapy for Women Founders & CEOs in California
For founders when your company is your identity and your identity is breaking.
One-to-One
Therapy for Female Tech Founders
For founders inside the specific pressure of the tech industry.
One-to-One
Coaching for Women Founders & CEOs
Trauma-informed executive coaching for founders carrying weight in private.
NOT SURE WHERE TO START
A 25-minute consultation is the simplest way to find your right fit.
THE LIBRARY
The complete clinical library
20 pieces of trauma-informed clinical writing for this audience, ordered most recent first.
- 01
Founder Burnout After Childhood Overfunctioning: When the Drive That Built Your Company Is Also the Thing Depleting You
- 02
The Narcissistic Mother-in-Law When You’re the CEO: Why Your Success Threatens Her Most
- 03
The High-Functioning Survivor: Why Recovery Looks Different When You’re Still Running a Company
- 04
Tech Founder Identity After Exit: What No One Tells You About the Grief
- 05
Physician Founder Burnout: When You Built the Practice and It’s Slowly Consuming You
- 06
The Perimenopause Founder: Running a Company When Your Body Is Rewriting Its Rules
- 07
Why the Next Chapter Breaks Most Exited Founders
- 08
The Founder Journey: Therapy and Coaching for Every Stage
- 09
When Your Co-Founder Is a Narcissist: The Clinical Reality of Betrayal in the Founding Partnership
- 10
The Isolation of the Founder: When Your Friends Can’t Hold What You’re Carrying
- 11
When Your Body Breaks While You’re Building: The Hidden Medical Trauma of Driven Women Founders
- 12
Therapy for Women Founders and CEOs in California: When Your Company Is Your Identity
- 13
Tech Founder Burnout: When Building Something Breaks You
- 14
Therapy for Female Founders: A Trauma Therapist’s Guide for Women Building Companies
- 15
Therapy for Female Tech Founders
- 16
Best Resources for Founder Burnout Recovery
- 17
Founder Burnout: When the Drive That Built Your Company Is Running You Into the Ground
- 18
12 Signs of Founder Burnout That Driven Women Dismiss as Normal
- 19
IFS Therapy for Founders: Why Internal Family Systems Works When Other Approaches Don’t
- 20
Founder Burnout and Divorce: When the Company Costs You Your Marriage
