Wholeness is the New Rich...

Trusted by Titans. Healing What Success Alone Can’t Fix.

Christy Rutherford is the world’s leading expert in Trauma Default® healing for ultra high net worth individuals seeking more than achievement—they want restoration, alignment, and peace.

A Harvard Business School alumna and 2018 Grand Master Champion of HBS’s Launching New Ventures Pitch Competition, Christy brings an unmatched fusion of elite strategy and emotional intelligence to her transformational work. As a Certified Executive Leadership Coach from Georgetown University with over 25 years of leadership experience—including crisis management, team development, and high-stakes operations—she knows firsthand what it takes to succeed under extreme pressure.

She also knows what it costs.

After rising to become the 13th African-American woman in the 230-year history of the U.S. Coast Guard to attain the rank of Commander (Lieutenant Colonel equivalent), Christy reached the height of her career—only to crash into Stage 12 burnout, the final, most dangerous level of emotional and physical collapse.

Her relentless ambition had brought external success, but it came at the expense of her health, joy, and relationships. It was in the ashes of that collapse that she discovered what would become her life’s work: the Trauma Default® methodology—a revolutionary system that exposes how unresolved childhood patterns quietly fuel high-achiever burnout, sabotage relationships, and block fulfillment.

Christy realized that the things we sacrifice in the name of success—our health, peace, family, and inner safety—are the very things that matter most.

That awakening reshaped her mission.

Today, she works exclusively with ultra-high net worth individuals who want to reclaim what money can’t buy:
- Mental clarity
- Emotional freedom
- Spiritual alignment
- Authentic family relationships
- And the ability to feel safe in a life of abundance

Her clients—executives, investors, heirs, and entrepreneurs—have restored broken marriages, closed multi-million-dollar deals, healed stress-related illness, and finally experienced what it feels like to be whole.

She’s been featured in Forbes (4x) and Black Enterprise (2x) for her insights on leadership and empowerment, and is a 10-time published author.

But Christy’s greatest legacy isn’t in accolades—it’s in showing the world’s wealthiest individuals that real power comes from healing, and that success without peace is just another prison.

Because true wealth isn’t measured in what you have.
It’s measured in what you feel.

Christy Rutherford is the world’s foremost expert in Trauma Default® healing for ultra-high net worth individuals who have achieved everything—except inner peace.

A Harvard Business School alumna, former U.S. Coast Guard Commander, and trusted advisor to leaders for over 25 years, Christy blends elite strategic insight with deep trauma healing. She is the creator of the groundbreaking Trauma Default® methodology, which reveals how unresolved childhood experiences silently shape high-achiever behavior, success, and emotional well-being.

Her work isn’t therapy. It’s transformation.

Christy works exclusively with individuals worth $30M+ who are privately battling burnout, isolation, relationship breakdowns, or the nagging feeling that “success shouldn’t feel this empty.” Her clients include private equity executives, legacy wealth heirs, real estate moguls, and top-performing entrepreneurs.

Through her private intensives, elite 12-month programs, and luxury healing retreats, Christy helps her clients reclaim what the pursuit of wealth cost them: mental and physical health, spiritual alignment, authentic connection, and emotional safety.

Because true wealth isn’t measured in assets—it’s measured in wholeness.

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