Emotional abuse can leave deep, invisible scars, making you question your worth and leave you feeling isolated. If you are or have experienced emotional abuse, it's crucial to understand that you are not alone and that what you have gone through is not your fault. You deserve to be treated with kindness and respect, and therapy can help you reclaim your sense of self-worth. It's okay to seek help and prioritize your well-being -- you deserve to live a life free from abuse.
How might it feel to create safety in yourself and in your life? This might be something you have never had. We can support you to do this in a warm, caring space.
My approach is grounded in authenticity, trust, and often humour. I believe you have the wisdom to navigate life’s challenges and I strive to help empower you to facilitate change in therapy. Interpersonal relationships are difficult and therapy can serves as an empowering space to explore difficulties such as emotional abuse. I work with individuals, couples, children and families offering a free consultation to ensure we are a good fit. I carry a systemic lens, exploring the way culture, community and family shape our experiences and aspirations. I am committed to strength-based and anti-oppressive practice in my work. I recognize the importance and responsibility I have as a therapist, to address the systemic inequalities impacting clients in their lives.
Have you been the victim or emotional or narcissistic abuse? Let's work together to navigate the feelings that we sometimes push down or put on ourselves, and how to move forward in a safe way.
Registered Psychotherapist, Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying), MACP, BA
Do you find that past experiences in relationships have left you feeling afraid or struggling to trust? Do you feel your self-worth has been impacted, or like you've been gaslit for some time? Let's talk about that - Get in touch for a free 15-minute consultation today.
Emotional violence is linked with manipulation, fear, guilt, shame, humiliation used to gain control. Most of the time you may not realize that it is happening, you can determine if you are being emotionally abused, do you feel lonely, fearful, humiliated, embarrassed, unhappy, threatened…ask for help
Registered Social Worker, HonBA, BSW, MSW, RSW, EMDR Certified
Emotional abuse can feel like, "it hits you from behind." Sometimes taking years to fully realize its impact. Whether from childhood or adulthood, emotional abuse can leave you struggling with self doubt, feeling flawed, incomplete, not good enough. It can cause internal conflict where you may have even lost trust in yourself. The goal becomes to heal the inner conflict by addressing the parts of you that are wounded. To create unity inside where a sense of acceptance and self compassion is restored, or created.
Emotional abuse can be insidious and hard to define, especially if these are the sort of relationships we grew up with. When we are faced with this type of abuse, we often feel isolated, powerless and as if our world has become smaller. We may even begin to question our own reality. No one deserves to be treated like this. Through relational supportive therapy, boundary setting tools and safety planning, I support my clients in growing beyond the very small container that emotional abuse creates.