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Narcissistic abuse

Trauma-informed support for healing from manipulation, control, and emotional harm.

Narcissistic abuse can leave deep emotional wounds that are often invisible to others — and deeply confusing to those who experience it. You may feel like you’ve lost your sense of self, doubt your reality, or carry shame for “not seeing it sooner.”

At Health Allies Counseling, we offer compassionate, trauma-informed therapy for people recovering from narcissistic abuse — helping you rebuild clarity, self-trust, boundaries, and emotional safety at your own pace.

Our Approach to healing

Bridge In Forest

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What we mean by narcissistic abuse

Narcissistic abuse refers to patterns of emotional manipulation, control, and invalidation that often occur in relationships where one person prioritizes power, image, or dominance over mutual care and accountability.

This abuse can occur in:
 

  • Romantic relationships

  • Family systems

  • Friendships

  • Workplaces

  • Religious or community settings
     

It may include behaviors such as:

  • Gaslighting or chronic reality distortion

  • Emotional manipulation or blame-shifting

  • Love-bombing followed by devaluation

  • Withholding affection or approval

  • Chronic criticism or humiliation

  • Control over decisions, finances, or relationships

  • Lack of accountability or empathy

  • Cycles of idealization and discard
     

You do not need the other person to have a diagnosis for your experience to be valid.

2

How narcissistic abuse can affect you

Survivors of narcissistic abuse often experience:
 

  • Chronic self-doubt or confusion

  • Difficulty trusting your perceptions

  • Anxiety, depression, or emotional numbness

  • Hypervigilance or people-pleasing

  • Shame, guilt, or self-blame

  • Loss of identity or confidence

  • Trauma bonding or difficulty leaving

  • Grief for who you were — or hoped the relationship would be

  • Difficulty trusting future relationships
     

These responses are not signs of weakness — they are adaptive survival responses to prolonged psychological harm.

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How therapy
can help

At Health Allies Counseling, recovery work is paced, validating, and deeply respectful of your experience. Therapy can help you:
 

  • Restore clarity and self-trust
    Untangle gaslighting and rebuild confidence in your perceptions.

  • Understand abuse dynamics
    Learn how manipulation, trauma bonding, and power dynamics work — without blaming yourself.

  • Reduce trauma responses
    Support nervous-system regulation and relief from anxiety, dissociation, or emotional overwhelm.

  • Rebuild identity and self-worth
    Reconnect with who you are outside the abusive dynamic.

  • Strengthen boundaries
    Learn how to set and maintain boundaries without guilt or fear.

  • Process grief and anger safely

    Make space for complex emotions without judgment or pressure to forgive.

Does this sound like you?

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