Emotional Abuse therapists in Louisville, Kentucky KY
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Emotional Abuse
Dr. Joe Rustum
Psychologist, PsyD, License Psychologist
I help clients process the impact of emotional abuse, including criticism, manipulation, gaslighting, control, invalidation, and patterns that have caused them to question themselves or lose confidence. In therapy, we work on understanding what happened, rebuilding self-trust, strengthening boundaries, and reducing the guilt, shame, anxiety, or confusion that can follow emotionally harmful relationships. My goal is to help clients feel clearer, more grounded, and more confident in their ability to protect their well-being.
9 Years Experience
Online in Louisville, KY Kentucky
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 Louisville, KY Kentucky (Online Only)
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 Louisville, KY Kentucky (Online Only)
Emotional Abuse
Courtney Crooks
Psychologist, PhD, CTMH, CCTP
Emotional abuse can negatively impact your physical and psychological well-being. Through brief or long term psychodynamic/psychoanalytic approaches using empirically-supported methods, I work with each patient to identify core themes and repetitions linked to their relationship patterns, including experiences of narcissistic or emotional abuse from an intimate partner or other person. Over time, this insight and reflection encourages the patient to become aware of relationship patterns, identify potential abusive relationship behaviors, enact desired changes to their relationship patterns, and ultimately gain a sense of personal agency over their life.
17 Years Experience
Online in Louisville, KY Kentucky
Emotional Abuse
Dr. Brittany Jacobson
Psychologist, PhD, CST
If you’ve experienced patterns of being dismissed, controlled, or made to question yourself, it can leave a lasting impact. In therapy, we move at your pace to understand these experiences and how they continue to affect your self-esteem and relationships. Together, we focus on rebuilding self-trust and learning how to have happy, healthy relationships.
10 Years Experience
Online in Louisville, KY Kentucky
Louisville's therapy community is shaped by the city's dual identity as a major healthcare hub — anchored by the University of Louisville Health system, Norton Healthcare, and Baptist Health — and a culturally rich city with deep roots in bourbon, thoroughbred racing, and Southern Midwestern community values. The Muhammad Ali Center and the city's civil rights heritage sustain meaningful conversations about racial identity, community resilience, and systemic inequity in clinical work. The University of Louisville's department of psychological and brain sciences provides important training resources for the local therapy community. Louisville's positioning at the intersection of Appalachian influence, Southern tradition, and Midwestern pragmatism shapes a therapy culture where direct, accessible, and often spiritually informed approaches find the broadest acceptance.
Emotional Abuse therapists in Louisville, Kentucky Statistics
Emotional Abuse therapists in Louisville, Kentucky average 19 years of experience and charge around $218 per session. 100% offer online sessions. The top treatment approaches are Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) (64%), Psychodynamic Therapy (47%), and Person-Centered Therapy (Rogerian) (43%).
Average years in practice
19 Years Experience
Average cost per session
$218
Accept insurance
38%
Offer sliding scale
38%
Gender ID
| 59% |
Female |
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| 35% |
Male |
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| 4% |
Gender Fluid |
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| 2% |
Non-Binary |
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Session Type
| 51% |
In Person and Online |
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| 49% |
Online Only |
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Top Treatment Approaches
| 64% | Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) |
| 47% | Psychodynamic Therapy |
| 43% | Person-Centered Therapy (Rogerian) |
| 43% | Family Systems Therapy |
| 43% | Existential / Humanistic Therapy |
| 40% | Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) |
| 40% | Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) |
Ages Served
| 96% | Adult |
| 72% | Young Adult |
| 66% | Senior |
| 49% | Teen |
| 28% | Children |
Client Focus
| 66% | Women |
| 64% | Men |
| 49% | LGBTQ+ |
| 40% | Military / Veterans |
| 40% | Hispanic / Latino |