Annie Wright
Licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) and executive coach; writes on relational trauma, family systems and therapy modalities including EMDR, schema therapy and EFT.
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Their wordsEFT’s attachment framework consistently provides the most precise clinical map for understanding what breaks and what repairs intimate bonds.
↗Sue Johnson's Emotionally Focused Therapy: An Attachment Guideanniewright.com
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Their wordsThey’re not fighting about the dishes. They never are.
↗Sue Johnson's Emotionally Focused Therapy: An Attachment Guideanniewright.com
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Their wordsRelationships aren’t optimized by strategy. They’re healed through vulnerability.
↗Sue Johnson's Emotionally Focused Therapy: An Attachment Guideanniewright.com
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EMDR targets specific memories well but is not built for identity work or building a life narrative.
Their wordsEMDR targets specific memories well. It’s not designed to be the primary vehicle for identity work or the slower work of building a coherent life narrative.
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Their wordsTalk therapy alone often struggles to shift the felt, physiological charge of a stuck memory, even once the story is fully understood.
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Their wordsEMDR often accelerates the processing of specific memories inside a broader therapeutic relationship. I rarely run it as a standalone protocol without that container.
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Their wordsThat framing isn’t accurate, and it’s not what fifteen years in this field has taught me.
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Schema therapy was designed for entrenched patterns that do not respond well to traditional CBT.
PsychotherapyCBTSchema therapy
Their wordsIt was specifically designed for clients who have deeply entrenched, chronic psychological patterns that do not respond well to traditional Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT).
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A schema is too rigid to be dismantled by logic alone, because it is a felt, somatic truth.
Their wordsBecause schemas aren’t just thoughts; they’re deeply felt, somatic truths.
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Their wordsThe tragedy of overcompensation is that it works professionally, but it destroys you internally.
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Their wordsSchemas do not appear out of nowhere. They’re the direct result of core emotional needs not being met in childhood.
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Their wordsAnd we use the therapeutic relationship itself (limited reparenting) to provide the emotional attunement that was missing in your childhood.