Emotional Abuse therapists in Muscle Shoals, AL
Browse Emotional Abuse therapists in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. Compare credentials, specialties and therapeutic approach. Contact a therapist to learn more.
Emotional Abuse
Dr. Kelsi Clayson
Psychologist, Psy.D.
Emotional abuse can be difficult to recognize, yet its impact runs deep. Maybe you’ve been made to feel small, controlled, or constantly second-guess yourself. Perhaps you’ve been told that your feelings don’t matter, that you’re “too sensitive,” or that you’re the problem. Over time, this kind of treatment can erode your self-esteem, leave you feeling trapped, and make it hard to trust yourself or others. Even if the abuse is in the past, its effects can linger in the way you see yourself and navigate relationships.
Healing from emotional abuse is about reclaiming your voice, your worth, and your sense of self. Together, we’ll explore the patterns that have shaped your experience, rebuild self-trust, and help you step out of survival mode into a life where you feel empowered and in control. You deserve to be heard, respected, and valued—not just by others, but by yourself. It’s possible to move forward, and you don’t have to do it alone.
8 Years Experience
Online in Muscle Shoals, AL
Emotional Abuse
Alena Porter
Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, NCC
When a person is in a relationship, personal or professional, it is sometimes hard for that person to notice emotional abuse until it becomes severe or someone else notices that it is happening. This is not the client's fault, emotional abuse usually starts very subtly with harsh comments or shutting down but these behaviors are often attributed to a bad day. Over time when a person hears harsh comments enough times they start to believe them. Therapy for emotional abuse is in part helping client's recognize emotional abuse and try to set boundaries, if it is safe to do so. Then we will work to desensitize, reframe, and replace those harsh comments with positive beliefs while increasing the client's sense of self-worth.
8 Years Experience
Online in Muscle Shoals, AL (Online Only)
Emotional Abuse
Pamela Brewer
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, MSW, Ph.D, LCSW-C,DCSW
When you are in an emotionally abusive relationship it can be difficult to get support from those you care about. When the wounds are internal - it can be difficult for even you to determine if you are in an emotionally abusive relationship. Let's take a look at what you are experiencing and the next best, self- affirming steps you can take.
41 Years Experience
Online in Muscle Shoals, AL (Online Only)
Emotional Abuse
Collins Counseling Associates
Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, LMFT
All of our clinicians provide clinical care for individuals who are currently in or have a history of being in an abusive or violent intimate of family relationship.
21 Years Experience
Online in Muscle Shoals, AL
Emotional Abuse
Sumer Statler Aeed
Psychologist, Licensed Psychologist
Emotional abuse is an often hidden or hard to pinpoint type of abuse that may occur in our adult relationships, those with our parents growing up, or both. One definition of emotional abuse includes psychological (i.e. non-physical) behaviors such as threats, insults, constant monitoring or “checking in,” controlling, shaming, humiliation, intimidation, isolation or ignoring behaviors.
You may also be dealing with childhood emotional abuse which can be defined as, 'sustained, repetitive, inappropriate emotional response to the child’s experience of emotion and its accompanying expressive behavior’. Healing emotional abuse allows us to create new blueprints for moving forward with new outcomes and to create new relationships with ourselves and others.
Healing involves speaking our truth, learning about connecting to our emotions, boundary setting, connecting to our bodies and beginning to create new ways of building loving safe relationships with ourselves and others. Depending upon your own history we may make use of variety of tools to heal, including somatic work, trauma work, journaling, boundary setting, inner child work, family systems work, art therapy, or many other paths that can lead to reclaiming your truth.
27 Years Experience
Online in Muscle Shoals, AL (Online Only)
Emotional Abuse therapists in Muscle Shoals, AL Statistics
Emotional Abuse therapists in Muscle Shoals, AL average 18 years of experience and charge around $214 per session. 100% offer online sessions. The top treatment approaches are Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) (62%), Psychodynamic Therapy (42%), and Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) (41%).
Average years in practice
18 Years Experience
Average cost per session
$214
Accept insurance
48%
Offer sliding scale
33%
Gender ID
| 67% |
Female |
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| 32% |
Male |
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| 1% |
Non-Binary |
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Session Type
| 56% |
In Person and Online |
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| 44% |
Online Only |
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Top Treatment Approaches
| 62% | Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) |
| 42% | Psychodynamic Therapy |
| 41% | Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) |
| 38% | Existential / Humanistic Therapy |
| 38% | Person-Centered Therapy (Rogerian) |
| 35% | Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) |
| 33% | Relational Psychotherapy |
Ages Served
| 100% | Adult |
| 80% | Young Adult |
| 64% | Senior |
| 44% | Teen |
| 26% | Children |
Client Focus
| 67% | Women |
| 55% | Men |
| 53% | LGBTQ+ |
| 38% | Black / African American |
| 35% | Hispanic / Latino |