# Annie Wright: Speaker & Media Materials

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## Short bio

Annie Wright, LMFT, is a licensed psychotherapist, executive coach, author and speaker specializing in relational trauma. She founded, scaled and sold a multimillion-dollar mental health company. Her work explores the relationships between family history, ambition and adult life, with clinical depth and plain-language attention to the experiences of driven women.

## Longer bio

Annie Wright, LMFT, is a licensed psychotherapist, EMDRIA-certified EMDR therapist, executive coach, author and speaker. She specializes in relational trauma: the lasting effects of harmful experiences in close relationships. Her work brings together more than 15,000 clinical hours, her own relational trauma recovery and the experience of founding, scaling and selling a multimillion-dollar, multi-state mental health company.

Annie earned two B.A.s from Brown University and a master’s in counseling psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies. She spent nearly four years living, working, apprenticing and studying at the Esalen Institute. She has a forthcoming book with W. W. Norton & Company.

Her writing and educational presentations explore ambition and compulsive achievement, family estrangement, entrepreneurship, identity, wealth and the patterns that follow people into adult life. Speaking and coaching are non-clinical services. Therapy is provided separately, with its own clinical and location requirements.

## Commentary areas

- Achievement addiction, workaholism and burnout
- Family estrangement and difficult family relationships
- Relational trauma beneath outward competence
- Entrepreneurship, leadership and professional transitions
- Wealth, inheritance and family power
- The emotional and relational effects of AI and technological change

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