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Starting Emotional abuse counseling

What is Emotional abuse counseling?

Emotional abuse counseling helps victims heal from abusive relationships. Emotional abuse includes Examples of emotional abuse may include:

  • Blaming others for their own behavior.
  • Publicly mocking, humiliating, name-calling, embarrassing, criticizing.
  • Separating someone from their family and friends.
  • Withholding affection or love.
  • Downplaying another person’s experiences, perspectives, emotions, or thoughts.
  • Using or objectifying people.
  • Denying access to money, medical care, food, transportation, or other crucial resources.
  • Using guilt, threats, or intimidation.

How does Emotional abuse counseling work?

Emotional abuse counseling with our Thriveworks therapists in Houston gives people the safe space they need to identify and understand the harm they've experienced and move forward. Through therapy, many victims have rebuilt their self-esteem and self-worth; recognized that they did not cause the abuse, but their perpetrator is responsible for the choice to harm; identified their wounds and found the treatment they need; healed from the trauma; re-established their personal safety; grieved their losses; formed new, loving relationships; and learned to trust their experiences and emotions.

Is Emotional abuse counseling conducted in person or online?

Emotional abuse counseling at Thriveworks is conducted both in person and online by video. We encourage you to choose the option that works best for you.

How long does Emotional abuse counseling last?

Emotional abuse counseling with one of our Thriveworks therapists in Houston, TX can last for a few weeks, months, or longer, depending on the individual's exact needs and preferences.

Need more help deciding?

Emotional abuse, also called psychological abuse, is a huge problem in modern society. It’s best defined as any type of abusive, verbal behavior targeted at one individual by another. This is a type of abuse that promotes in its victims a destructive sense of fear, obligation and/or guilt. Quite often this type of maltreatment occurs over time—years in some cases. Because of this, the victim often doesn’t know they’re a victim of abuse because it’s normal to how life is behind closed doors. Normal to them, that is, not normal in the usual sense.

Typical examples of emotional abuse include the following:

  • Alienation
  • Blaming
  • Bullying
  • Emotional Blackmail
  • False Accusations
  • Harassment
  • Intimidation
  • Name-Calling
  • Raging
  • Threats.

Those who escape from the oppression of this awful behavior often need emotional abuse therapy sessions to help rebuild their lives. We can offer these sessions at Thriveworks Counseling in Houston, TX.

Emotional Abuse vs. Physical Abuse

Emotional abuse is different to physical abuse, obviously, but it can often be more damaging. Any physical damage can heal itself within a relatively short space of time. This is not the case with emotional scars, many of which can embed into the victims psyche and torment them for years; a lifetime in some cases.

Emotionally abused victims spend a lot of their time “walking on eggshells” around the abuser. They’re in a constant state of hyper-vigilance; afraid to speak sometimes. Here are a few of the other struggles a victim may face on a daily basis:

  • Constantly on their “best” behavior around the abuser
  • Unable to relax or enjoy anything when the abuser is around
  • Always anticipating the worst
  • Always waiting for the next outburst to happen
  • Blame themselves for the abuser’s bad moods
  • Lost hope of living a peaceful, contented life.

This is no way to live, yet tens of thousands of people do exist in this way on a daily basis.

Emotional Abuse Solutions in Houston, TX

Here at Thriveworks in Houston, TX we have highly qualified emotional abuse counselors with years of experience in this field. If you have lost all hope and are living in a perpetual state of unease, call us today. Schedule an appointment so we can discuss your options for repairing the damage caused to you by emotional maltreatment.

Pricing & insurance

Our therapists accept most major insurances. We accept 585+ insurance plans, and offer self-pay options, too.
Learn more about pricing for therapy and counseling services at Thriveworks.

Our Houston therapists and counselors accept 41 insurance plans

  • Aetna

  • Ambetter by Superior Health Plan

  • APEX Memorial Hermann

  • ARIA | Covenant Management Systems

  • Arkansas Blue Cross Blue Shield Federal Employee Program (FEP)

  • Auto Club Enterprises (Employers Health Network)

  • Blue Cross Blue Shield | Anthem (Blue Card)

  • Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas Exchange

  • Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas HMO

  • Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas PPO

  • Buist Byars and Taylor (Employers Health Network)

  • Carelon

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Self-pay costs at Houston
Talk therapy

Talk therapy

Includes individual, couples, child/ teen, & family therapy

First session

$1

Ongoing sessions

$1

Talk therapy

Psychiatry

Includes reducing symptoms with medication & management

First session

$1

Ongoing sessions

$1

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Thriveworks helped me realize that I do believe people can change. I’m not the person I was three months ago, broken and fearful. I’m healthy and happy and for the first time being kind to myself. Thank you for giving me my life back.
Read more Thriveworks helped me realize that I do believe people can change. I’m not the person I was three months ago, broken and fearful. I’m healthy and happy and for the first time being kind to myself. Thank you for giving me my life back.
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Where to find us

Getting here

Thriveworks Counseling & Psychiatry Houston is located off Allen Pkwy at the intersection of Rosine St and D’Amico St. We currently share the building with URBN Dental Montrose. Across the street you will find The Gordy Theater Company and Stages parking garage.

Phone number

(281) 789-6829

Languages spoken by TX providers

  • English
  • Spanish
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