Narcissistic abuse is not just “bad relationships” or “emotional pain.”
It’s an invisible kind of war—one that shatters trust, rewires the nervous system, and leaves survivors questioning their reality, their worth, and even their ability to exist safely in the world. For many survivors, CPTSD isn’t just about the trauma that happened—it’s about the trauma of never being believed, never feeling safe, and never being allowed to fully be yourself.
EMDR & IFS for Narcissistic Abuse and CPTSD
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) offers a way to begin healing without having to retell or relive every moment of betrayal. It lets us work directly with the emotional residue—the frozen fear, the internalized shame, the hypervigilance—that narcissistic abuse plants deep inside the body. Through bilateral stimulation, EMDR helps your brain reprocess what got stuck when you had no safe way out, no one to protect you, and no one to validate your experience.
Instead of feeling forever trapped in emotional flashbacks, you begin to reclaim your right to safety, truth, and self-trust.
Internal Family Systems (IFS) offers another piece: meeting the protective parts that kept you alive during the chaos. The part that learned to fawn, to freeze, to shrink itself down to survive. The inner critic that echoes the abuser’s voice. The hypervigilant part that scans every room for danger. In IFS, these parts aren’t “bad habits” or “flaws”—they’re brilliant survival mechanisms. And they deserve to be honored, not shamed.
IFS gives you a way to build an inner world where those parts no longer have to stay locked in old survival roles. They can finally step back, rest, and transform.
We move slowly.
We create containment. We prioritize your sense of choice and control at every step. Because in narcissistic abuse, what was taken from you was not just safety—it was autonomy. Healing must honor that above all else.
You are not broken because you learned to survive in a war zone. You are not weak because you still carry echoes of that pain.
Therapy to Heal from Narcissistic Abuse and CPTSD
Your healing won’t look like anyone else’s—and it shouldn’t.
It will look like learning to trust your own reality again.
It will look like feeling safe enough to exist without apology.
It will look like finding the parts of you that were buried—and inviting them back home.
You survived unspeakable things.
Now, you deserve to do more than survive. You deserve to live.
