Online Emotional Abuse therapists in Villanova, Pennsylvania PA
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Emotional Abuse
Peter D. Ruffini
Licensed Professional Counselor, EdS, MA, LPC, LPCMH, ACS, EMDRPT-II
I help individuals who have experienced emotional abuse, manipulation, or chronic invalidation—whether in childhood, relationships, or authority structures. These experiences often shape self-doubt, hypervigilance, and difficulty trusting one’s own perceptions. Therapy focuses on rebuilding internal stability, correcting distorted self-beliefs, and restoring a grounded sense of agency and self-respect.
15 Years Experience
Online in Villanova, PA
Emotional Abuse
Ilyssa Swartout
Psychologist, Psy.D.
Emotional abuse can leave deep, lasting wounds—often invisible but profoundly painful. You may question your worth, doubt your perceptions, or struggle with trust and boundaries. In therapy, we focus on rebuilding your sense of safety, confidence, and self-respect. Together, we’ll uncover and heal the impact of manipulation, criticism, or neglect. Using evidence-based trauma therapies, you can learn to release shame, rebuild inner strength, and reclaim your authentic voice.
25 Years Experience
Online in Villanova, PA (Online Only)
Emotional Abuse
Amanda S. Vaught
Psychologist, PsyD
I offer trauma-informed therapy for individuals healing from emotional abuse. My approach centers on creating a safe, supportive space to rebuild self-worth and trust after experiences of manipulation, control, or invalidation. Together, we work to understand the impact of emotional trauma, set healthy boundaries, and develop tools for self-compassion and empowerment. Using evidence-based trauma therapy, I help clients regain confidence, rediscover their voice, and build healthier, more fulfilling relationships.
14 Years Experience
Online in Villanova, PA (Online Only)
Emotional Abuse
Kaitlin Joyce Therapy & Consulting, LLC
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, LICSW, NATC, TCTSY-F
My clients have experienced severe emotional abuse and neglect since childhood and often find that they are now in relationships that continue this pattern or that their trauma is causing issues in interpersonal relationships.
16 Years Experience
Online in Villanova, PA (Online Only)
Emotional Abuse
Phoenix Center for Experiential Trauma Therapy
Treatment Center, DSW, LCSW, BCD, CGP, FAAETS, TEP
Our center is composed of multiple trauma specialists, all of whom have experience working with emotional abuse. Emotional abuse comes in many forms and can be difficult to address as it is easy to minimize or internalize. Our approaches to trauma therapy can help you heal from past emotional abuse.
11 Years Experience
Online in Villanova, PA
Emotional Abuse
Mary Knoblock, DNH
Hypnotherapist, DNH, RTT Practitioner, Hypnotist, Holistic Naturopath Practitioner, Spiritual Counselor
For emotional abuse, we choose the method that works best for you and create a safe a emotionally secure environment to help you process through the effects of emotional abuse. Many of the methods I use can help you find your inner calm, re-center and increase your self esteem and self worth.
11 Years Experience
Online in Villanova, PA (Online Only)
Emotional Abuse
Elements Counseling and Wellness Spa
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, PhD, LPC, LCSW, LSW, LAPC,
As certified trauma experts our team is trained in advanced models of psychotherapy that can help address the root causes of serious mental health disorders. Our compassionate and empathetic therapists meet the client where they are at on their healing journeys.
12 Years Experience
Online in Villanova, PA
Emotional Abuse
Libby Shaw
Counselor/Therapist, LPC, ATR-BC, LPAT, ACS
Emotional abuse, from the past or your present day, can feel confusing and often times minimized. And yet, emotional abuse is extremely detrimental to a person's development, self-esteem, and feelings of safety. We can work on how to heal from emotional abuse, or how to establish safer and healthier boundaries with the people in your life causing you this harm.
13 Years Experience
Online in Villanova, PA (Online Only)
Emotional Abuse
Amanda Cummings Brandenburg
Psychologist, PhD
I commonly work with survivors of emotional and narcissistic abuse, often stemming from early childhood and following them into adulthood. I have advanced training in these areas and work to help clients heal from abusive histories.
11 Years Experience
Online in Villanova, PA
Emotional Abuse
CHRISTIE BAUR PSYCHOTHERAPY
Counselor/Therapist, MS, LPC
Emotional abuse can leave deep, lingering wounds—confusion, self-doubt, anxiety, and a feeling of never being “enough.” Whether it came from a partner, family member, or past relationship, the impact often shows up long after the abuse has ended. You may find yourself questioning your reality, struggling with your self-worth, or feeling stuck in patterns you didn’t choose.
In therapy, we’ll work together to rebuild your sense of safety, autonomy, and trust in yourself. I help clients understand the dynamics of emotional abuse, recognize the subtle ways it affects thoughts and behavior, and develop boundaries that protect their peace. Our work is focused on healing, empowerment, and reconnecting you with the strengths that may have been overshadowed. You deserve relationships—and a life—where you feel respected, supported, and emotionally secure. I’m here to help you move toward that.
20 Years Experience
Online in Villanova, PA
Emotional Abuse
Dr. Susan E. Schumacher
Licensed Professional Counselor, DA, LPC, LCPC, CCTP, EMDR Clinician
Recognizing and recovering from emotional abuse involves a gentle, kind approach where curiosity and awareness increase over time. The Power & Control Wheel and Equality Wheel can be helpful to identify behaviors that have crossed healthy boundaries and intimidated or limited you. We will work at your pace to build on your strengths and abilities and support you as you work through challenges.
17 Years Experience
Online in Villanova, PA
Emotional Abuse
HUGH R STEWART III
Hypnotherapist, Ph.D., ACHt.
Emotional abuse can be overt or covert. Hypnotherapy, Heart Centered Breathwork, and Emotional Release work can get to the source of emotional abuse. Usually in a family dynamic where abuse and trauma are present, the obvious abuse from one of the caregivers is the first to do emotional release work on. The caregiver dishing out covert emotional abuse flies under the radar. They may be the one that does nothing to help the child for fear of what the other caregiver will do. That is just as damaging to the person but in a more subtle way. Emotional abuse also happens when one gets involved with a narcissist, sociopath, or psychopath with gas lighting, ghosting, etc. Another specialty of mine is working with clients that are in relationship with a narcissist & sociopaths as the abuse is so unsettling and covert that the client thinks its their fault for being emotionally abused. My job is to help you pull back the curtain to the Wizard of Oz just to find the real person behind the curtain and realize you don't deserve such manipulative treatment.
26 Years Experience
Online in Villanova, PA
Emotional Abuse
MindOverHealing Therapies
Hypnotherapist, CHt
Hypnotherapy can play a valuable role in the treatment of emotional abuse by helping individuals process and heal from traumatic experiences. Through guided relaxation and suggestion, hypnotherapists assist clients in accessing subconscious memories and emotions linked to abuse, allowing them to reframe negative beliefs and regain a sense of self-worth. This approach can reduce anxiety, improve emotional regulation, and foster resilience, making it a supportive complement to traditional therapies for emotional abuse recovery.
3 Years Experience
Online in Villanova, PA (Online Only)
Emotional Abuse
San Francisco Counseling Collective
Licensed Professional Counselor, LPCC, LMFT, LCSW
At San Francisco Counseling Collective ("SFCC"), we provide a safe place to understand and recover from emotional abuse, including patterns of manipulation and control. Treatment emphasizes reestablishing boundaries, self-worth, and a sense of safety in relationships.
9 Years Experience
Online in Villanova, PA
Emotional Abuse
Alisia Ives at Status Therapy
Counselor/Therapist, MS, LPC
If you are presenting to counseling for this issue, I recommend you do not tell the person you see as targeting you that you are seeking help. Emotional abuse may be a type of domestic violence. Or it may be a way a family member, partner, work colleague, boss, or friend interacts. There are different forms of emotional abuse and there may be things you can do. However, if this is persistent focused emotional abuse from someone -- and it is domestic violence -- it is not an anger problem, but a belief system that everything exists for their use. I will have a better idea when we talk. There may be things you can do, there may be plans you can make for changes. How much it affects you is key to planning.
20 Years Experience
Online in Villanova, PA (Online Only)
Emotional Abuse
Sarah Sternlieb
Licensed Professional Counselor, MS, LPC
Growing up in an environment where your feelings weren’t seen or were dismissed can stay with you. You might second-guess yourself, feel on edge in relationships, or struggle to trust your own reactions. We work to understand where those patterns started and help you feel less on edge and more able to trust yourself over time.
14 Years Experience
Online in Villanova, PA (Online Only)
Emotional Abuse
Seven Hills Psychology
Psychologist, Psychologist
We offer treatment for individuals who have experienced emotional abuse.
18 Years Experience
Online in Villanova, PA
Emotional Abuse
Confluence Mind and Motion
Licensed Clinical Social Worker
We help clients understand how manipulation, control, and relational trauma have shaped their sense of self. Through gentle, secure therapeutic work, clients reclaim boundaries, trust, and inner safety. Healing focuses on reconnecting with their own voice and worth.
9 Years Experience
Online in Villanova, PA
Emotional Abuse
Dr. Berkeley Antonioli
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, PhD, LCSW, LCSW-C, MEd
The majority of my training and clinical work has been focused on helping adults recover from early traumatic experiences. Often, the traumas my clients are working through is rooted in early relational and/or sexual experiences that leave a lasting impact on their formative developmental years and beyond. I have found that these early experiences often impact how clients have learned to operate and survive in relationships. Many have learned to defer to others, feeling like a burden if they consider and try to communicate their needs or limits. These folks have learned to betray themselves in order to preserve their attachments, often leading to tolerating emotionally abusive behavior. These clients often feel resentment, burnout, anxiety and depression, and are working on stepping into their power and agency to detach from abusive relationships.
11 Years Experience
Online in Villanova, PA (Online Only)
Emotional Abuse
XaHara A. MeGod
Licensed Professional Counselor, MA, LCPC, R-DMT, CPT
Healing from emotional abuse requires reclaiming your voice, reality, and sense of self. I provide a safe, affirming space to name what happened without judgment. Using trauma-informed, culturally centered therapy, we’ll untangle gaslighting, rebuild trust in your perceptions, and restore your ability to set boundaries and feel worthy of respect.
8 Years Experience
Online in Villanova, PA (Online Only)
Emotional Abuse therapists in Villanova, Pennsylvania Statistics
Emotional Abuse therapists in Villanova, Pennsylvania average 18 years of experience and charge around $206 per session. 100% offer online sessions. The most commonly treated issues are Emotional Abuse (100%), Trauma and PTSD (88%), and Anxiety or Fears (86%).
Average years in practice
18 Years Experience
Average cost per session
$206
Gender ID
| 63% |
Female |
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| 29% |
Male |
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| 4% |
Non-Binary |
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| 4% |
Gender Fluid |
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Session Type
| 53% |
In Person and Online |
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| 47% |
Online Only |
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Top Specialties
| 100% | Emotional Abuse |
| 88% | Trauma and PTSD |
| 86% | Anxiety or Fears |
| 81% | Depression |
| 78% | Self Esteem |
| 74% | Stress |
| 72% | Loss or Grief |