Online Emotional Abuse therapists in National City, California CA
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Emotional Abuse
Lorena Codina
Counselor/Therapist, Terapeuta TRG (Terapia de rreprocesamiento Generativo)
Ayudo a sanar las heridas emocionales, recuperar la autoestima y establecer límites sanos.
1 Years Experience
Online in National City, CA (Online Only)
Emotional Abuse
Rory Valentine Diller
Registered Psychotherapist, M.A., LMFT Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist #139783
Emotional abuse can often feel more challenging to heal from than physical abuse! It can twist your mind, erode your perception, and leave you fighting hard to think clearly, know who you are, and function interpersonally. Recovery from emotional abuse involves developing a safe relationship with your therapist, learning and understanding the nuances and impacts of emotional abuse, and working towards reconnecting with yourself, your feelings and needs, and your sovereign power and autonomy without shame.
10 Years Experience
Online in National City, CA (Online Only)
Emotional Abuse
The Connection Clinic
Marriage and Family Therapist
At The Connection Clinic, we create a safe space to heal from the effects of emotional abuse. Our goal is to empower you to reclaim your voice and cultivate a strong sense of self-worth.
9 Years Experience
Online in National City, CA (Online Only)
Emotional Abuse
Emily St. Amant
Licensed Professional Counselor, MA, LPC-MHSP-S (TN), LPCC (CA)
I have a great amount of experience supporting people who have lived through abuse that is emotional or more covert.
18 Years Experience
Online in National City, CA (Online Only)
Emotional Abuse
Ross Kellogg, LMFT
Marriage and Family Therapist, Licensed Individual, Marriage, and Family Therapist (LMFT)
Emotional abuse can cause significant harm to an individuals sense of self and make one's identity feel fragmented. Psychodynamic approaches including Internal Family Systems and Object Relations therapy can effectively bring the support needed to repair the effects of emotional abuse.
12 Years Experience
Online in National City, CA (Online Only)
Emotional Abuse
Julie Levin
Marriage and Family Therapist, MFT
So often, family members who struggle with addiction and mental illness become abusive. They may not even understand how their behavior impacts others. If you grew up with emotional abuse, you may not even fully recognize it as abuse - because it has become so normal. But you know you’re hurting. You know you feel fear in situations that don’t seem to bother others. You may have a harsh inner critic, worry about what others think of you, or get stuck in shame spirals - especially if shame was used to control or manipulate you. I help clients develop an inner voice that is consistently warm, kind, supportive and nurturing. As this inner voice develops, it not only heals past abuse, it also prevents future abuse. Because, once you feel what it’s like to be truly cared for (from within), it becomes nearly impossible to settle for less.
27 Years Experience
Online in National City, CA (Online Only)
Emotional Abuse
Eve Angela Fritsch
Marriage and Family Therapist, M.A.
Emotional abuse often happens so gradually that you do not even realize what is happening until you have lost confidence in yourself. You may find yourself second-guessing your thoughts, walking on eggshells, or wondering if you are the problem. Therapy can help you understand what you have experienced, rebuild your sense of self, and move forward with clarity and confidence.
9 Years Experience
Online in National City, CA (Online Only)
Emotional Abuse
Jeanette Abney
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT, SAP
Emotional and Verbal Abuse can leave lasting scars. I have many years of assisting individuals to help them heal from the trauma of emotional and verbal abuse.
27 Years Experience
Online in National City, CA
Emotional Abuse
Bruce Howard
Psychologist, PhD
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43 Years Experience
Online in National City, CA
Emotional Abuse
New Beginnings Christian Counseling
Marriage and Family Therapist, MA, LMFT
Emotional therapy helps you understand, process, and heal from the full range of human feelings—whether it’s sadness, anger, fear, shame, or joy. Often, unresolved emotions from past experiences or trauma can shape how we respond to life today. In therapy, we create a safe, compassionate space to explore these emotions, uncover their roots, and develop healthy ways to express and regulate them. Integrating evidence-based techniques with Christ-centered support, emotional therapy empowers you to gain clarity, resilience, and a deeper connection with yourself and others.
15 Years Experience
Online in National City, CA
Emotional Abuse
Micha Noble, MA
Pre-Licensed Professional, AMFT
What if we could see the broken pieces of ourselves and view them with compassion? What if we saw our scars as marks of courage and resiliency? The journey towards wholeness includes accepting each part of ourselves--the part that is joyful, the part that laughs, the part that hurts, the part that feels empty.
5 Years Experience
Online in National City, CA
Emotional Abuse
Dr. Rebecca Scott, Psy.D
Psychologist, Clinical Psychologist, Certified in Holistic Health
I can support patients who have history of emotional abuse and verbal abuse. I can provide CBT techniques and help foster self esteem and self confidence.
17 Years Experience
Online in National City, CA
Emotional Abuse
Alicia Stalker-Gallichio LMFT
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT, SAP
Emotional abuse can leave deep, lasting wounds that often go unrecognized. Those impacted may struggle with feelings of worthlessness, fear, anxiety, and confusion as a result of manipulation, belittling, and emotional neglect. My therapy services are designed ot provide a safe and nurturing space where you can heal and reclaim your sense of self,
21 Years Experience
Online in National City, CA
Emotional Abuse
Layla Ashley Psychotherapy
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT
Emotional abuse can erode self-worth through patterns of criticism, manipulation, or control. I help you identify these dynamics, rebuild self-confidence, and restore a sense of personal agency.
23 Years Experience
Online in National City, CA
Emotional Abuse
Elizabeth Nims
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
I help clients heal from emotional abuse and learn to develop compassionate and kind self-talk, reshaping how they feel about themselves after experiencing severe emotional abuse.
7 Years Experience
Online in National City, CA
Emotional Abuse
G. Roman Gupta, LCSW
Therapist, LCSW
I have been practicing for almost 20 years and I have a strength-based, trauma-informed, culturally aware, LGBTQ+ affirmative, sex positive, kink positive, poly affirming, feminist perspective. I have trained and practiced in a variety of treatment methods that offer us a variety of ways to meet your goals whether as an individual, couple, or family.
18 Years Experience
Online in National City, CA
Emotional Abuse
Abigail (Abi) Zarate Ramsay
Pre-Licensed Professional, Marriage and Family Therapist Trainee, Professional Clinical Counselor Trainee
I help survivors of emotional abuse recognize harmful patterns, heal from gaslighting and control, and rebuild self-trust, boundaries, and safer, more supportive relationships.
0 Years Experience
Online in National City, CA (Online Only)
Emotional Abuse
Mia Turner
Therapist, MA, RYT, ASDCS, LMFT, NPT-C, CMNCS, CMIP
Healing support for survivors of emotionally abusive, manipulative, coercive, controlling, narcissistic, psychologically harmful, or chronically invalidating relationships. These experiences often leave impacts that extend far beyond the relationship itself, shaping self-trust, identity, nervous system functioning, boundaries, self-worth, and one's relationship with reality.
Emotional abuse can gradually erode confidence in your own thoughts, feelings, perceptions, memories, instincts, and lived experiences. It may show up as chronic self-doubt, people-pleasing, hypervigilance, walking on eggshells, perfectionism, difficulty trusting yourself, over-explaining, self-silencing, emotional overwhelm, dissociation, chronic guilt, difficulty identifying your needs, or feeling disconnected from your own voice and inner knowing. Many of these responses reflect the intelligence of a nervous system that learned to adapt to unpredictability, criticism, manipulation, invalidation, coercion, or emotional unsafety.
This work explores not only what happened within the relationship, but also the ways those experiences may continue to live within the body, nervous system, beliefs, relationships, and sense of self. Attention is given to the influence of attachment experiences, family systems, culture, gender, spirituality, trauma, internalized narratives, and the survival strategies that may have helped you navigate difficult relational environments. Particular care is given to understanding how emotional abuse intersects with neurodivergence, disability, chronic illness, race, culture, sexuality, and other identities that may have shaped vulnerability, coping, and meaning-making.
My approach integrates EMDR, somatic therapy, mindfulness, polyvagal-informed practices, attachment-focused therapy, parts work and Internal Family Systems (IFS), neuropsychotherapy, expressive arts, narrative therapy, and liberation-oriented healing. Therapy may include exploring patterns of protection, reconnecting with bodily wisdom and intuition, strengthening boundaries, processing traumatic experiences, understanding attachment wounds, reclaiming agency, and developing a more compassionate relationship with yourself.
Healing is not approached as becoming less sensitive, more agreeable, or simply "moving on." It is often about reclaiming trust in your own experiences, reconnecting with your body's signals, honoring your needs and emotions, unlearning harmful messages you may have internalized, and creating enough safety for your voice, boundaries, values, and authentic self to take up space again. The goal is not simply to recover from what happened, but to cultivate relationships with yourself and others that are grounded in mutual respect, authenticity, consent, reciprocity, and care.
10 Years Experience
Online in National City, CA (Online Only)
Emotional Abuse
Sara Denman
Psychologist, Psy.D
Someone who has suffered emotional abuse often feel shame and isolation. Processing the abuse with a trained therapist helps the pain loose its potency. Emotional abuse comes in many forms and sometimes it is even difficult to understand what was abuse. Therapy can bring insight and coping skills to work through the abuse.
27 Years Experience
Online in National City, CA
Emotional Abuse
Kristin Robert
Marriage and Family Therapist, AMFT
I work with emotional abuse by helping clients name and make sense of patterns such as manipulation, control, gaslighting, and chronic invalidation. Therapy focuses on restoring clarity, strengthening boundaries, and rebuilding self-trust after prolonged relational harm.
3 Years Experience
Online in National City, CA
Emotional Abuse therapists in National City, California Statistics
Emotional Abuse therapists in National City, California average 14 years of experience and charge around $200 per session. 100% offer online sessions. The most commonly treated issues are Emotional Abuse (100%), Anxiety or Fears (88%), and Trauma and PTSD (87%).
Average years in practice
14 Years Experience
Average cost per session
$200
Gender ID
| 64% |
Female |
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| 25% |
Male |
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| 6% |
Non-Binary |
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| 5% |
Gender Fluid |
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Session Type
| 54% |
In Person and Online |
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| 46% |
Online Only |
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Top Specialties
| 100% | Emotional Abuse |
| 88% | Anxiety or Fears |
| 87% | Trauma and PTSD |
| 84% | Depression |
| 72% | Stress |
| 71% | Self Esteem |
| 68% | Codependency |