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Narcissistic Abuse Counseling for Women & College Students in Lansing and across Michigan

Have your relationships felt like a struggle?

Maybe you are noticing relationships feeling unfulfilling, or perhaps you are noticing a lack of connection, appreciation, and feelings of loneliness. You may be noticing a lot of conflict or an inability to move on after being hurt. Maybe you are noticing a difficulty in moving on from a life transition like a divorce or break-up.

Whatever it is that you are experiencing, you can see how it is negatively impacting other aspects of your life:

  • Challenges with communication issues

  • Frequent arguments and disagreements

  • Unclear or unrealistic expectations

  • Lack of staying power in romantic partnerships

  • Fear and anxiety around intimacy

  • Difficulty asking for help and getting support

  • Challenges trusting yourself and your decisions

  • Feeling alone, isolated, and unsupported

 Relationship challenges can be difficult.

Relationship counseling can help.

How therapy works

You can learn to form deeper, more meaningful and authentic connections.

It may seem unattainable now, but you can have meaningful, connected relationships with friends, family, and partners. You can feel understood and supported in your relationships. You can have closer, deeper, and more meaningful relationships.

I will help guide you through this process. We will work together, tailoring the process to your needs and circumstances. My approach to relationship counseling comes from a deep understanding and belief that once you start to connect to your needs and start to value yourself there can be huge gains in the quality of relationships you have. it all starts with you valuing you.

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Counseling for Narcissistic Abuse can help you…

  • Develop the skills and awareness to know what you need in a relationship

  • Improve communication and voice needs assertively

  • Learn to work from what you need instead of what you think you need to be for others

  • Decrease emotional avoidance and/or anxiety and change the views of self and relationship

  • Change dysfunctional behavior patterns

  • Understand what healthy boundaries are and work on placing healthy boundaries for yourself and with others

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Frequently asked questions about therapy for narcissistic abuse

FAQs

  • Symptoms of narcissistic abuse can significantly affect a person’s life, whether the abuse occurred in a romantic, familial, platonic, or professional relationship.

    Common symptoms of narcissistic abuse include:

    • Feeling angry or confused

    • Feeling isolated

    • Flashbacks

    • Intrusive thoughts

    • Irritability

    • Hypervigilance

    • Insomnia or trouble sleeping

    • Self-doubt

  • I use a Person-Centered Therapy (PCT) approach blending Talk Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), Attachment-Based Therapy (ABT), and Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) to assist in coping and reducing symptoms. You will move at your own pace according to what feels right for you.

  • The first step is emailing (sarah@forwardoutlookcounseling.com), or completing the contact form to book an initial consult. Once we have that consult and make sure we are a good fit, we schedule our first session. You will get an email with a link to fill out initial paperwork. Then we have our first therapy session either in person or virtually.

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 It’s time to have relationships that feel fulfilling and connected.

I’m here to support you in getting there.

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