Recovering from a relationship that left you questioning yourself

People recovering from narcissistic abuse often describe the same thing: a fog of self-doubt. You may have spent so long adjusting to someone else's moods, walking on eggshells, or being told your version of events was wrong, that it's hard to trust your own perception anymore.

This work isn't about diagnosing the other person. It's about you — understanding what happened, why it affected you the way it did, and rebuilding a relationship with your own judgment, needs, and voice.

What this can look like

• Second-guessing your own memory or perception of events ("maybe I'm overreacting")
• A pattern of relationships where your needs consistently came last
• Difficulty setting boundaries, or guilt when you do
• Anxiety around a specific person that doesn't fully make sense to others
• Feeling responsible for someone else's emotions or behavior
• Struggling to trust new relationships, even healthy ones

How therapy can help

• EMDR helps process specific painful memories so they lose their emotional charge and stop intruding on the present.
• Internal Family Systems (IFS) works with the different parts of you — the part that still hopes for approval, the part that's angry, the part that's exhausted — so they stop working against each other.
• Somatic therapy addresses the way this kind of stress lives in the body, not just the mind.

Every plan is built around you — modalities are chosen and adjusted together as therapy progresses, not applied as a fixed formula.