Abuse Counseling

If you are currently in danger, please call 911 or the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233 (text START to 88788). You can also chat with an advocate at thehotline.org. Advocates are free, confidential, and available 24/7.

Therapy can begin whether you are still in the relationship, planning to leave, recently out, or years past it. Our first sessions focus on safety, stabilization, and understanding what you're carrying — never on pressuring you to make a decision on someone else's timeline.

Abuse in a relationship is rarely just physical. It can be emotional, verbal, financial, digital, sexual, or spiritual. It often builds slowly, mixed with love and moments of tenderness, which is exactly what makes it so disorienting. If you've been questioning your own perception, memory, or worth, you are not alone — and it is not your fault.

Together we'll name what has happened, rebuild trust in your own reality, and support you in whatever direction is safest and right for you.

Abuse and neglect in childhood — physical, sexual, emotional, or the neglect of being unseen — often shape the nervous system, self-worth, and relationships for decades. You may notice patterns of hypervigilance, people-pleasing, difficulty trusting, harsh self-talk, or feeling 'too much' or 'not enough' no matter what you do.

Trauma-informed therapy is not about forcing you to relive the past. It's a careful, paced process of understanding how you learned to survive, gently updating those responses, and building a self that feels safer to live inside.

Healing after sexual abuse or assault is not linear, and there is no 'right' way to feel. You may be dealing with flashbacks, shame, numbness, difficulty with intimacy, or a body that reacts before your mind catches up. All of it makes sense given what your body and mind have been through.

In our work, you are always in charge of what you share and when. We'll use trauma-informed tools to help you feel safer in your body, gently process what happened, and reconnect with the parts of your life the abuse tried to take from you.