Emotional Abuse therapists in Pittsburgh, PA
Browse Emotional Abuse therapists in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Compare credentials, specialties and therapeutic approach. Contact a therapist to learn more.
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
In-Person in Pittsburgh, PA 15235
Online in Pittsburgh, PA
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 Pittsburgh, PA (Online Only)
Shira Collings
Licensed Professional Counselor, MS, LPC
I provide therapy for survivors of emotional abuse with deep care and attunement. Together, we work to untangle the lasting impacts of manipulation, gaslighting, and control, rebuilding a sense of trust in yourself and your reality. My approach is warm, empowering, and grounded in the belief that healing is possible through connection.
6 Years Experience
Online in Pittsburgh, PA (Online Only)
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 Pittsburgh, PA (Online Only)
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 Pittsburgh, PA (Online Only)
Pittsburgh's post-steel identity brings civic pride alongside the lingering mental health effects of industrial decline, with therapists frequently addressing grief, economic anxiety, and intergenerational family dynamics rooted in its working-class heritage. The city's medical landscape is anchored by UPMC — one of the largest health systems in the country — and the University of Pittsburgh, both of which maintain extensive mental health training programs and community clinics. Pittsburgh has a growing creative and tech economy attracting young professionals, creating demand for therapists who work with identity, career transitions, and the particular stress of building a life in a city undergoing reinvention. Shadyside, Squirrel Hill, and the South Hills are among the neighborhoods with the strongest concentrations of private practices.
Emotional Abuse therapists in Pittsburgh, PA Statistics
Emotional Abuse therapists in Pittsburgh, PA average 18 years of experience and charge around $224 per session. 100% offer online sessions. The top treatment approaches are Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) (64%), Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) (44%), and Existential / Humanistic Therapy (43%).
Average years in practice
18 Years Experience
Average cost per session
$224
Accept insurance
31%
Offer sliding scale
36%
Gender ID
| 67% |
Female |
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| 29% |
Male |
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| 3% |
Non-Binary |
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| 1% |
Gender Fluid |
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Session Type
| 52% |
In Person and Online |
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| 48% |
Online Only |
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Top Treatment Approaches
| 64% | Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) |
| 44% | Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) |
| 43% | Existential / Humanistic Therapy |
| 43% | Family Systems Therapy |
| 41% | Person-Centered Therapy (Rogerian) |
| 41% | Psychodynamic Therapy |
| 38% | Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) |
Ages Served
| 100% | Adult |
| 79% | Young Adult |
| 57% | Senior |
| 43% | Teen |
| 25% | Children |
Client Focus
| 66% | Women |
| 61% | Men |
| 48% | LGBTQ+ |
| 38% | Hispanic / Latino |
| 34% | Christian |