Emotional Abuse Therapy therapists in Toronto, Ontario ON, Canada CA
Emotional Abuse Therapy
Jennifer Fukushima
Registered Psychotherapist, registered psychotherapist
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.
3 Years Experience
Emotional Abuse Therapy
Collaborative Care Therapy
Registered Psychotherapist, Registered Social Workers and Psychotherapists
Emotional abuse, with its insidious and often hidden impact, can leave deep and lasting scars. At Collaborative Care Therapy, we approach the healing process from emotional abuse with a compassionate, integrative, relational, and trauma-informed perspective, recognizing the nuanced ways in which this abuse affects individuals.
In our therapy sessions, we create a safe and nurturing environment where you can begin to unpack the effects of emotional abuse. We understand that this form of abuse can undermine self-esteem, distort self-perception, and create a lingering sense of fear or inadequacy. Our goal is to help you recognize and challenge these harmful internalized messages and beliefs.
Our treatment approach is multifaceted, employing evidence-based methods tailored to your individual healing journey. We often use cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) to address negative thought patterns and beliefs instilled by emotional abuse. In addition, techniques like mindfulness can help in developing present-moment awareness and reducing anxiety, while emotion-focused therapy can assist in understanding and regulating complex emotions that arise from such experiences.
Being trauma-informed, we pay special attention to the traumatic aspects of emotional abuse. We work collaboratively with you to rebuild trust, not only in the therapeutic relationship but also within yourself. Our focus is on empowering you to regain a sense of control and self-worth.
Through our phased approach to therapy, we aim to help you move from a place of hurt and confusion to one of clarity and strength. This journey involves learning to set healthy boundaries, improving self-compassion, and fostering positive, respectful relationships in the future.
Our virtual therapy sessions offer the convenience and comfort of accessing support from your environment, ensuring continuous and personalized care. With Collaborative Care Therapy, embark on a path to healing from emotional abuse and rediscover a sense of self-worth and confidence.
9 Years Experience
Emotional Abuse Therapy
Maria Christopoulos
Registered Psychotherapist, M.A., M.Sc., RP
Emotional abuse can affect the way one views themselves and the world around them. Providing an individual a safe environment to work through their negative experiences and create new and positive core beliefs can help an individual build confidence and decrease negative emotions.
8 Years Experience
Emotional Abuse Therapy
Dr. Evelyn McMullen
Psychologist, C. Psych.
Learning how to identify all forms of abuse including gaslighting can be a big step. The impact of early childhood trauma can carry into adult life. You can find ways to heal, strengthen, and mitigate some of these effects without having to actually relive the past.
40 Years Experience
Emotional Abuse Therapy
Kylie Hockley
Registered Psychotherapist, MA, RP
All feelings are welcome in therapy. I use a trauma informed and attachment based approach to emotional abuse. Together we will explore past experiences, challenge negative thoughts and allow all and any emotions to be present.
5 Years Experience
Emotional Abuse Therapy
Andrea Rowell
Registered Social Worker, MSW, RSW
It can feel disorienting and unsafe to get to know yourself, especially if you've come across people with such contagious emotions that you don't know what feelings are yours. You don't have to do this alone. My approach centers our relationship as a priority and you may even find that learning IFS (internal family systems) as an approach may help you to experience more safety within your own body.
5 Years Experience
Emotional Abuse Therapy
EMDR Therapy Toronto - Heal Anxiety, PTSD, Childhood Trauma - Ayan Mukherjee
Registered Psychotherapist, Certified EMDR Therapist & Consultant
If you have experienced emotional abuse then you may have the tendency to downplay it and not consider it to be akin to "big T trauma", like physical and sexual abuse. Although research and clinical experience shows that chronic, childhood emotional abuse can cause significant disturbance, destabilization and psychic fragmentation in adulthood. We will take your emotional abuse history seriously and use an attachment-focused EMDR Therapy and IFS lens to process the traumatic memories and the betrayal component in it. Guided Imagery and Resource Tapping to fill the deficit trauma would then be used to give your emotional brain and nervous system what they needed, but which they didn't receive when the abuse was happening. Email me for a free 30-min phone consultation to discuss more.
7 Years Experience
Emotional Abuse Therapy
Lori-Ann Wesley
Registered Psychotherapist, M.A., R.P.
Emotional abuse is far too common and has devastating effects. One must work on gaining self-esteem looking at the past to see what occurred to cause them to be in this situation now to heal past wounds and to gain the tools to deal with their current situation.
27 Years Experience
Emotional Abuse Therapy
Transforming Emotions
Psychologist
Childhood abuse, including physical, emotional, and sexual abuse, can leave lasting impacts in our lives, impacting the ways we feel about ourselves, about those we love, and about our sense of safety and belonging in the world. If you find it difficult to trust others, to manage your feelings effectively, or to come to terms with events that have happened in your past, working with a trauma-informed therapist open up a world of new possibilities. Emotion focused therapy is a tested therapy that is effective for processing past attachment and relationship trauma and abuse. When seeking to heal from abuse, it is important to find a therapist who listens carefully, who knows when to help you speed up or slow down, and who can help you to safely manage the big feelings that often stem from past trauma. Book today for a free consultation. We are here to help you to find a therapist who is the right fit for your needs.
17 Years Experience
Emotional Abuse Therapy
Nora Taylor, MA, RP
Registered Psychotherapist, Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology 1994
It is important to understand what emotional abuse is and how it impacts our lives. Often this is subtle subjective experience. One of the most important things to remember is having the ability to be aware, notice the injury. That's the first step.
30 Years Experience
Emotional Abuse Therapy
Ps. I Love You Psychotherapy Inc.
Registered Psychotherapist, HBEd, MA (Hons.), Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying)
Providing psychoeducation on what Emotional Abuse is, is the first step. Emotional abuse can include:
constant yelling; name calling, demeaning remarks or threats; physically or socially isolating an individual; withholding affection; bullying or public humiliation; exposure to family violence; denying something an individual knows is true (gaslighting); destroying an individual’s belongings, hurting their pets, or threatening to do so amongst other things.
One of the hardest things a person has to do is stop being in denial when someone you love is mistreating you. Through DBT I will teach you assertiveness training, distress tolerance, self-acceptance and cognitive reframing so that you can reclaim your self worth.
2 Years Experience
Emotional Abuse Therapy
Stacy Kirkbride - Turnpage Counselling & Psychotherapy
Registered Psychotherapist, MACP, Registered Psychotherapist
Emotional, mental and narcissistic abuse can leave you feeling isolated, uncertain and full of self-doubt, questioning your reality, low in confidence, feeling detached, anxious, having difficulty trusting, as well as feeling an immense amount of guilt and shame. I provide support for those struggling with relational trauma, narcissistic abuse, and complex trauma. Whether you are contemplating ending a relationship, dealing with the aftermath of leaving, or coping with ongoing difficulties with a partner or family member, I offer a supportive empathic space to explore the impact, rebuild self-confidence and self-worth, heal and establish safe effective boundaries.
3 Years Experience
Emotional Abuse Therapy
Clare Karasik
Registered Social Worker, MSW, BSW, RSW
We often minimize experiences of emotional abuse, but research shows that emotion abuse in childhood is associated with the highest rate of trauma responses. Emotional abuse can impact our sense of safety in the world, our self-esteem, and the narratives we have about ourselves and others. Whenever it occurs in our life, emotional abuse can impact the way in which we navigate our relationships. We may feel anxious, unsafe, confused, conflicted, protective, or distant in relationships. Whether you experienced emotional abuse in childhood or adulthood, I support people to deepen awareness of their response to those experiences, develop self-compassion and self-acceptance, challenge their inner critic, establish healthy relationships, and develop self-esteem.
8 Years Experience
Emotional Abuse Therapy
Natasia Hypnotherapy
Hypnotherapist, Hypnotherapist, Light Channel, Meditation Teacher, Spiritual Life Coach, Rapid Transformational Therapy Practitioner
By finding out the cause and consequences of your emotional abuse, we can change from the deep subconscious roots and clear any negative self talks and beliefs, and have chance to clear things energetically with the abuser, and help you to set better boundaries, to have high self esteem, and know how to protect yourself better in the future.
3 Years Experience
Emotional Abuse Therapy
Kennedy McLean Counselling & Psychotherapy Services
Registered Psychotherapist
Emotional abuse is often overlooked. When we can't see wounds, it is easier to ignore or justify them. We understand the trauma of living with or encountering emotional abuse and the negative impacts it can have on our lives. We are empathic to this process and would be happy to help you process your experiences of abuse and find hope and empowerment to move forward.
14 Years Experience
Emotional Abuse Therapy
Redbird Therapy Centre
Registered Psychotherapist, Registered Psychotherapists
All our therapists are trauma-informed and can support you through the struggles of emotional abuse. Contact our Intake Worker to help determine who will be the best fit for you.
29 Years Experience
Emotional Abuse Therapy
Emma Heutschi
Registered Psychotherapist, M.Ed. Counselling Psychology, Registered Psychotherapist
Emotional abuse is the most hidden but widespread form of abuse, and is just as damaging as physical or sexual abuse. As your therapist, I can help you to recognize and understand the abusers in your life and their impact on your wellbeing. We will work to heal the damage of abuse and prevent future abuse by building skills for self-esteem and self-compassion. If you have experienced any form of abuse, I will encourage you to feel your anger and to release this anger in a constructive way. Anger empowers us and helps us to put the responsibility for the abuse where it belongs, instead of on ourselves.
7 Years Experience
Emotional Abuse Therapy
Centre for Psychology and Emotional Health
Psychologist
Our trained and skilled therapists help clients process and recover from the impacts of abuse and interpersonal trauma.
21 Years Experience
Emotional Abuse Therapy
Emily Beeckmans
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, B.A., B.S.W., M.S.W., RSW, CHRP
Therapy can help rebuild self-esteem and autonomy after experiencing emotional abuse. I can show you what a healthy relationship looks like. Ideally, you will learn that they you not to blame for the abuse. Traumatized people are often reluctant to share details of their abuse.
26 Years Experience
Emotional Abuse Therapy
Dr. Nilgun Turkcan Ataoglu, BCT, RDT
Licensed Mental Health Counsellor, Licensed & Registered Creative Arts Therapist
Creative Arts Therapy is a powerful specialty which provides us to express our subconscious, especially our traumas in a safe and easy way. That's the reason why on emotional abuse issues, CAT is very effective and gives great results.
23 Years Experience