Emotional Abuse therapists in Cheltenham, England
Browse Emotional Abuse therapists in Cheltenham, England, United Kingdom. Compare credentials, specialties and therapeutic approach. Contact a therapist to learn more.
Emotional Abuse
Saffron Marriner
Counsellor/Therapist, MBACP (Accred)
I work with emotional abuse in a similar way to other types of abuse, working towards building self esteem and identifying and managing any triggers. Encouraging healthy boundaries, self care and building a safe support network. If this is narcissistic abuse I may provide further psycho education around this as well as directing the client to online resources and supportive, empowering literature. We may use parts work to work with healing any inner conflicts or harmful beliefs about self that have developed as a result of being emotionally abused.
22 Years Experience
Online in Cheltenham, England
Emotional Abuse
Liz Frings
Counsellor/Therapist, PG Diploma Person-Centred Psychotherapy. EMDR Accredited
Therapy offers a safe, non-judgmental space to begin healing from emotional abuse. A skilled therapist can help you recognize and name what happened to you, which is often the first crucial step. Many survivors struggle to identify emotional abuse because it's subtle and the abuser may have convinced them they're overreacting.
Through therapy, you can rebuild your sense of self. A therapist helps you reconnect with your own thoughts, feelings, and perceptions, validating your experiences and helping you trust yourself again. This process gradually undoes the damage caused by gaslighting and constant criticism.
Therapy also provides practical tools for recovery. You might learn techniques for managing anxiety and depression, setting healthy boundaries, and recognizing red flags in relationships. Cognitive-behavioral approaches can help you identify and challenge the negative beliefs about yourself that emotional abuse instilled. Trauma-focused therapies can address the deeper wounds and help you process difficult emotions in a safe way.
Perhaps most importantly, therapy offers something that emotional abuse takes away: a relationship built on respect, trust, and genuine care for your wellbeing. The therapeutic relationship itself becomes a model for what healthy connection looks like, helping you understand that you deserve to be treated with kindness and respect.
Recovery from emotional abuse isn't linear, and it takes time, but with support, it's absolutely possible to reclaim your sense of self, rebuild your confidence, and create a life free from the shadow of abuse.
15 Years Experience
Online in Cheltenham, England
Emotional Abuse
Ruth Mark-Roland Psychotherapy
Registered Psychotherapist, Post Grad Diploma in Psychotherapy, Foundation and Diploma in Group Analysis
I offer support for those who have experienced emotional abuse, including patterns of manipulation, control, invalidation, neglect, or chronic criticism within past or present relationships. Emotional abuse can often be difficult to identify, yet its impact may be long-lasting, affecting self-esteem, trust, boundaries, and the ability to feel safe in relationships or within oneself.
My approach is grounded in psychoanalytic and relational psychotherapy, which allows us to gently explore both the lived experience of emotional abuse and its deeper psychological impact. Together, we may work to understand how these relational dynamics have been internalised over time, and how they continue to shape emotional responses, beliefs about self-worth, and patterns in relationships.
I also integrate somatic awareness to support reconnection with the body, particularly where experiences of emotional abuse may have led to dissociation, anxiety, or chronic tension. This can help restore a sense of safety, grounding, and self-regulation. Psychoeducation may be used to support understanding of trauma responses and relational dynamics, helping to reduce self-blame and increase clarity. Where appropriate, I may also incorporate EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques / tapping) to support emotional processing and regulation.
Therapy offers a steady, collaborative space to process these experiences at your own pace, develop a stronger sense of boundaries, and begin to rebuild a more secure and compassionate relationship with yourself and others.
14 Years Experience
Online in Cheltenham, England
Emotional Abuse
Lakis Elezoglou
Counsellor/Therapist, Life Transitions & Feeling Stuck
Many people undergo emotional abuse by people they trust and love. Together, we are finding the strength to set boundaries and stop it once and for all!
6 Years Experience
Online in Cheltenham, England (Online Only)
Emotional Abuse
Lulu AlRashdi
Life Coach
Emotional abuse can leave invisible wounds that affect self-worth, trust, relationships, and the way a person sees themselves.
Through trauma-informed coaching, we work to rebuild self-trust, strengthen healthy boundaries, regulate the nervous system, and reconnect with your authentic sense of self. The goal is not to remain defined by what happened to you, but to help you move forward with greater confidence, resilience, and emotional freedom.
3 Years Experience
Online in Cheltenham, England (Online Only)
Cheltenham is a Gloucestershire spa town known for its Regency architecture, the Cheltenham Festival horse racing meeting, a major literary festival, and as the home of GCHQ—the British intelligence and signals agency that employs thousands of highly vetted specialists in the area. The presence of GCHQ creates a distinctive and largely invisible mental health dynamic, as intelligence professionals face security restrictions that limit what they can discuss in therapy, and the stress of classified work and high-security employment creates specific confidentiality considerations for practitioners. Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services, and a well-developed private therapy sector serves the relatively affluent Cheltenham population. Common therapy concerns include high-security employment stress and confidentiality challenges, anxiety and relationship difficulties in a professional community under significant institutional pressure, and the more general concerns of an affluent market town with a strong sense of its own identity.
Emotional Abuse therapists in Cheltenham, England Statistics
Emotional Abuse therapists in Cheltenham, England average 14 years of experience and charge around ¤119 per session. 100% offer online sessions. The top treatment approaches are Person-Centered Therapy (Rogerian) (56%), Somatic Therapy (56%), and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) (53%).
Average years in practice
14 Years Experience
Average cost per session
¤119
Accept insurance
35%
Offer sliding scale
50%
Gender ID
| 80% |
Female |
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| 17% |
Male |
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| 3% |
Gender Fluid |
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Session Type
| 50% |
In Person and Online |
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| 50% |
Online Only |
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Top Treatment Approaches
| 56% | Person-Centered Therapy (Rogerian) |
| 56% | Somatic Therapy |
| 53% | Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) |
| 53% | Integrative Therapy |
| 44% | Existential / Humanistic Therapy |
| 38% | Behavioral Therapy |
| 35% | Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) |
Ages Served
| 100% | Adult |
| 76% | Young Adult |
| 59% | Senior |
| 53% | Teen |
| 24% | Children |
Client Focus
| 76% | Women |
| 65% | Men |
| 56% | LGBTQ+ |
| 44% | Black / African American |
| 41% | Asian |