Therapy for Women with Narcissistic Parents

Healing the fallout of narcissistic parents in Rancho Cucamonga and throughout California

You’re not crazy.

  • Struggling to create a life independent of your family?

  • Always anticipating the needs of your parent?

  • Apologizing and making amends even if you didn’t do anything wrong?

  • Deep down wanting your parents’ acceptance despite their behavior?

  • Burdened with painful memories from your childhood?

  • Feeling guilty any time you do something for yourself or set boundaries?

Perhaps your parent is narcissistic, emotionally immature, or antagonistic-whatever the truth is, it hurts. Growing up with a narcissistic parent has led you to second-guess yourself even with the most simple decisions. Putting other people’s needs in front of your own is how you learned how to protect yourself from being called selfish. You became a perfectionist because failure could never be an option.

Whether you’re still in contact, low contact, or no contact, you deserve to heal. The pain is real. You’re not crazy.

You’re ready for something better

Trying to convince yourself that your upbringing with narcissistic parents wasn’t that bad is part of the self-blame and shame used to raise you. While you may have been programmed to believe so little of yourself, therapy can help foster self-compassion, gain clarity, and develop clear expectations for yourself and others.

Balance and Boundaries Therapy can help!

As a certified Narcissistic Abuse Treatment Clinician, I understand what your inner world is like. We’ll focus on these three things: psycho-education, validation, and fostering your own subjectivity. What this means is you’ll fundamentally understand narcissism and the fallout of narcissistic abuse, learn how to validate your own thoughts and feelings, and learn how to make healthy decisions on your own.

Therapy for women with narcissistic parents can:

  • Provide relief from anxiety due to damaged relationships and childhood trauma

  • Reduce the guilt and shame programmed into you

  • Learn the warning signs of gaslighting, coercive control, and manipulation

  • Find skills to navigate existing narcissistic, antagonistic, and toxic relationships

  • Improve your self-talk and have more grace and forgiveness for yourself

You’re worth it.

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FAQS

  • I’ll never assess your parent(s) so we won’t know for certain. However, there are common signs of narcissistic abuse such as gaslighting, isolation, manipulation, and coercive control (physically, financially, emotionally, etc.). Therapy focuses more on validating your experiences, developing self-compassion, and setting clear boundaries for yourself.

  • Healing takes time. It’s common for women of narcissistic parents to be in therapy for a few years. Unlearning shame and fostering confidence in yourself after years of abuse will take time.

  • We start off weekly, usually the same time and day each week. When we both have agreed you’re making and sustaining progress, we will discuss scaling down to every other week for a period of time until you’re ready to terminate therapy.

More questions? Check out my FAQs page.