In romantic relationships, have you been drawn to the “bad boy” who you have to chase? Are you you hyper-aware of other people’s feelings and are disconnected from your own, or silence your own needs? Did you boyfriend call you “clingy,” “dramatic,” “crazy,” just for having needs, boundaries, or human emotions? Have you been the peacekeeper and a people pleaser in your romantic relationship? Feeling stuck in your relationship, where your boyfriend or husband is dismissive, critical, yells, calls you names, and then cheats? Trauma therapy for women in Connecticut after narcissistic abuse teaches you how to attract romantic relationships that feel emotionally nourishing and playful.
By building your confidence, self-worth, and talking about your your childhood in counseling for trauma, you can become more aware of red flags in relationships.
Are you a woman who has is a chronic peacekeeper and a self-abandoner due to childhood trauma and growing up in an emotionally unsafe home?
Did you grow up learning from your mom, “Don’t Rock the Boat” and walked on eggshells around your narcissistic, emotionally abusive father?
You are allowed to want love that feels kind, consistent, and safe.
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Cheating and Emotional Abuse Create Deep Self-Doubt
You might feel like you’re going crazy with your boyfriend or with your husband. He cheats, but blames you. Sometimes, he lies about other things too. And, he snaps at you, becoming very critical. Telling you that you’ll be nothing without him. He gets angry, but says you’re “too sensitive.” Then, he showers you with gifts, compliments, and tells you he will change for you.
This gaslighting makes you question your own reality, and over time, it chips away at your self-worth. It is a confusing cycle, but you feel bonded and pulled back to him. You want your relationship to be successful and work, more than anything in the world. And, you pride yourself on commitment and loyalty.
You start thinking, “Maybe if I was prettier, quieter, more patient, less emotional…”
But the truth is, you could be perfect and he would still hurt you—because he isn’t capable of giving what you need.
Yet you keep trying. Because you’re not just fighting for him—you’re fighting to heal the little girl inside who never felt chosen.
Our team at Wisdom Within Counseling specializes in helping women heal from emotionally abusive relationships, narcissistic partners, betrayal trauma, and the ongoing grief of staying too long with the wrong person.
At Wisdom Within Counseling, I help women like you heal from the pain of repeated relationship cycles with emotionally unavailable, cheating, or abusive partners.
Trauma therapy for women in Connecticut after narcissistic abuse provides you with self-worth, self-esteem, and empowerment skills. In counseling, you can talk about healing people pleasing, peace keeping behaviors, and inner child wounds that.
You give and give, hoping to be the one he finally changes for. He makes promises—but breaks them. You love deeply, but always feel like you’re not enough.
Right now, you’re exhausted, full of self-doubt, and stuck in a cycle of emotional abuse, dealing with cheating, and lying that feels impossible to break.
But you’re not broken. And you’re not alone.
You’ve just been taught to confuse chaos with love.
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You Didn’t Choose These Patterns. You Were Conditioned Into Them.
If you’ve ever wondered, “Why do I always fall for men who treat me like this?”—it’s time to look deeper.
Maybe your father was explosive, unpredictable, or emotionally distant. As well, he abandoned you physically or emotionally. Maybe you had to shrink yourself to stay safe, hide your feelings, or act perfect just to be noticed.
Those early relationships shaped what your nervous system now sees as love. So when you meet a man who is cold one moment and sweet the next… it feels familiar. Even addictive.
You’re not chasing love—you’re chasing emotional safety.
In an abusive relationship, you want to be the one who finally makes him stay. You want to be chosen, you want to be enough.
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My name is Katie Ziskind, and I’m a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, a trauma-informed relationship specialist, and a 500-hour certified yoga therapist. I specialize in helping women heal from emotionally abusive relationships, narcissistic partners, betrayal trauma, and the ongoing grief of staying too long with the wrong person.
I help you understand:
- Why you’re drawn to the “bad boy”
- How your nervous system confuses chaos with love
- Why your empathy and loyalty have been weaponized against you
- How to stop the urge to please, fix, or earn love
We use evidence-based therapy, inner child work, somatic trauma healing, and self-worth rebuilding tools.
I also offer virtual somatic yoga therapy, so you can attend sessions from the privacy of your own home or office—anywhere in Connecticut.
You’re Not Here to Fix Him – You’re Here to Heal You.
You’ve been the helper, the pleaser, the forgiver – you’ve stayed too long with someone who is an emotional vampire. For many years, you’ve loved and it has felt so hard. You’ve hoped your partner will change, maybe a little too much.
Now it’s time to turn all that energy inward—into your own healing, your own voice, and your own power.
You are not too much and you are not hard to love.
From counseling, you can learn that you do not have to settle for emotional scraps.
Common Signs You’re Stuck in a Cycle with Cheating or Emotionally Abusive Partners:
- You blame yourself when they cheat or hurt you
- You obsess over how to “get them to love you again”
- You feel addicted to their attention but constantly anxious when you have it
- You ignore red flags because the highs feel so good
- You believe that if you love them enough, they will change
- You feel isolated, alone, and unsure of what’s real anymore
- You give 110% and feel like it’s never enough
- You keep choosing the same kind of person over and over
If any of this feels familiar, Wisdom Within Counseling is here for you.
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You don’t have to do this alone.
Together, we will heal the trauma that taught you to settle, to chase, to perform, and to stay.
You’ll learn how to:
- Recognize red flags before they become traps
- Set healthy boundaries rooted in self-respect
- Reconnect with your body, your intuition, and your inner wisdom
- Feel safe, calm, and emotionally grounded again
- Attract relationships that feel emotionally nourishing and safe
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You Are Allowed to Want More Than Survival.
You are allowed to want love that feels kind, consistent, and safe and you are allowed to stop chasing and start receiving.
To add, you are allowed to outgrow the patterns that were never meant for the woman you are becoming.
Let’s begin that journey—together.
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You Deserve More Than Apologies: Counseling After Cheating and Emotional Abuse From Your Boyfriend or Your Husband
You gave everything to your boyfriend or your husband. Your loyalty, your heart, your time. You held onto hope when no one else did, believing in his promises when he said he’d change.
He looked you in the eyes and said, “I’ll never hurt you again,” and you wanted so badly to believe him.
You stayed because you saw the good in him. Also, you stayed because you thought your love could heal him.
You stayed because you believed if you were enough—pretty enough, supportive enough, patient enough—he would finally treat you the way you deserve.
But he didn’t.
Instead, he cheated. Again. And again. Somehow, each time, you were the one left feeling broken.
You were the one left wondering what you did wrong. He made you feel like you were the problem. He flipped the script, twisted your words, made you question your sanity. And little by little, your confidence crumbled.
You started to believe that maybe this is just what love is supposed to feel like—painful, confusing, and full of lies.
Let me be the one to tell you: That is not love.
Real love doesn’t tear you down—it builds you up. And I know that deep down, a part of you already senses that. But, I also know there’s another part of you that still feels stuck.
You keep going back to the guy who makes your heart race and your stomach sink.
The one who makes you feel like you’re both the most wanted and the most disposable woman in the world. You’ve learned to chase chaos because peace feels unfamiliar. And you keep choosing “bad boys” hoping they’ll finally choose you back in the way you deserve.
But what if the cycle didn’t have to repeat?
At Wisdom Within Counseling, I help women like you remember who you are. I help you reclaim your self-worth after emotional betrayal.
I guide you in seeing yourself through a lens of compassion instead of criticism. You are not broken—you were wounded by someone who couldn’t love you properly. That wound doesn’t define you. And with support, it can heal.
Trauma Therapy for Women in Connecticut After Narcissistic Abuse Involves Somatic Yoga Therapy, Art, Painting, and Walk and Talk Therapy
When you work with me, we don’t just talk about what happened.
We work through how it’s still affecting your body, your thoughts, your nervous system, and your heart.
Together, we untangle the toxic beliefs he left behind—the ones that whisper, “You’re not enough,” or “You’ll never find better.” We slow everything down and create space for you to hear your own voice again—the voice that says, “I matter. I deserve safe, loyal love.”
I see the light in you, even if right now you only see the mess. Even if you feel ashamed, heartbroken, or lost. Especially then.
You don’t have to prove your worth anymore. You don’t have to keep waiting for someone to pick you, love you right, or finally see your value. It starts with you seeing it. And I will help you get there.
You can heal from this and you can rise from this. And I’d be honored to walk beside you.
He Made You Feel Crazy – But It Wasn’t You
You remember how it started. He was charming, attentive, sweet. He looked at you like you were the only woman in the world. You thought, Maybe this time, it’s real. Maybe this time, I won’t get hurt. He sent the long texts. As well, he called you “baby.” He made big promises. And you poured yourself into the relationship, believing that if you gave him your love, your time, your energy—he’d see how special you are and never let you go.
But then came the gaslighting.
The weird texts from another woman on his phone that he swore were “nothing.”
The cold distance that you felt in your gut but couldn’t quite name. The lies you caught, only to be told you’re overthinking, you’re insecure, you’re imagining things. For one, you started to feel like you were the problem and you questioned your instincts.
You doubted your memories and you stopped trusting yourself.
And that’s exactly what he wanted.
Cheaters who gaslight don’t just break your heart—they break your sense of reality. He flipped situations so well that you ended up apologizing when he was the one who betrayed you. And, he made you believe his cheating was somehow your fault.
He called you “clingy,” “dramatic,” “crazy,” just for having needs, boundaries, or emotions.
And the more you tried to hold onto the relationship, the more he made you feel like you were falling apart.
And the worst part? You still wanted his approval.
Furthermore, you still wanted him to choose you. You still believed maybe if you were sexier, calmer, more supportive—he’d finally commit, finally change, finally see your worth. To add, you weren’t stupid. In reality, you were surviving emotional abuse, and your brain was trying to make sense of it.
Because in the beginning, he showed you love. That part of him was real too.
The soft voice and the forehead kisses. The “I can’t live without you.”
That was the hook, that’s what made you stay.
But then came the jealousy, the control, the possessiveness.
He started asking who you were texting. Why you wore that outfit and why you wanted a night out with your friends.
Slowly, he began isolating you.
Making you feel guilty for needing space. Telling you no one else would love you like he does. You gave more and more of yourself, trying to “be enough,” trying to “fix it,” trying to “be the reason he changes.”
And somewhere along the way, you lost your light.
At Wisdom Within Counseling, I want you to know: It wasn’t you. It was never you. You were emotionally manipulated by someone who never planned to change—but made you believe you could save him.
And now, your nervous system is wired to please. Your inner voice is clouded with doubt. You second-guess your decisions. You feel ashamed for staying too long—but also terrified of walking away. And the cycle repeats in your relationships: same type of guy, different name.
You keep picking the ones who cheat. The boyfriends who rage and the ones who have soft sides too—just enough sweetness to make you stay, and just enough cruelty to make you question your own worth.
But you can stop the cycle.
Trauma Therapy for Women in Connecticut After Narcissistic Abuse Supports You Advocating For Your Needs In Future Relationships
With trauma-informed counseling, we’ll slowly begin to untangle all of this. Together, we’ll unlearn the lie that your value comes from being chosen, from being enough for someone who can’t meet you in love. You’ll relearn how to hear your own intuition. In trauma therapy for women in Connecticut after narcissistic abuse and emotional abuse, you’ll reconnect to your needs, your voice, your confidence.
You’ll see how strong, worthy, and lovable you are—without needing to prove a damn thing.
You’ve been surviving for so long. But now, you get to heal.
You don’t have to keep living for crumbs of attention. You don’t have to keep proving your worth to men who refuse to love you well. And you don’t have to do this alone.
I’m here for you. Together, we’ll build your self-worth from the inside out.
Why have I always been interested and attracted to the bad guy, who cheats, who I have to beg for attention and love from?
You keep asking yourself: Why do I always fall for the guy who doesn’t love me back? Why do I chase the one who cheats, disappears, or only wants me on his terms? Why do I stay so long, even when I know it’s hurting me?
It’s not because you’re broken. It’s not because you’re stupid. And it’s not because you “love too hard.”
It’s because somewhere deep in your past, you were taught that love is something you have to work for.
Maybe you had a father who yelled a lot, or maybe he walked away and never came back.
Or, you had a father who was physically there but emotionally gone—tuned out, disconnected, never able to really see you. Maybe, you had a dad who was only nice sometimes. He had moments of tenderness—but also explosive anger. You could never predict which version of him would show up.
So you learned to walk on eggshells. You learned to work for love. To stay small. To earn safety.
And that pattern didn’t just disappear.
It followed you into your relationships.
Now, you’re drawn to the same energy—men who are hot and cold, kind and cruel, loving and distant. It feels familiar. It’s not healthy, but it’s what your nervous system recognizes as love.
And when they cheat or pull away, it activates that old wound: What did I do wrong? How can I fix it and how can I get him to choose me again?
You don’t realize it, but you’re still that little girl who felt like she had to perform for love. Who had to over-function, who had to be quiet when she was upset. And, the one who had to suppress her needs. Who had to wait and hope and beg to be seen.
That’s not love. That’s survival.
And I know you want more than that now.
You want real, healthy, safe love—but part of you doesn’t even know what that looks like. Because the “nice guy” feels boring.
The one who is emotionally available? You push him away. Emotional stability and genuine kindness that you don’t have to chase just isn’t hot. You go for the cocky guy, that ends up lying, exploding in anger, and cheating on you.
But the bad boy—the one who talks down to you, doesn’t text back, strings you along—he sets your nervous system on fire.
The drama feels like desire. The chaos feels like home. But it always ends the same way: you chasing, begging, losing yourself just to be enough for someone who isn’t capable of real love.
It’s time to stop blaming yourself. You didn’t create this pattern—it was created for you, long ago.
At Wisdom Within Counseling, I help women just like you understand these deep, unconscious cycles and break free from them.
You’ll start to see why you keep being pulled toward men who hurt you, and why love that’s calm, consistent, and kind can feel so unfamiliar. We’ll explore your childhood story, not to stay stuck there—but to reclaim your power from it.
You’ll begin to rewrite your inner script.
The one that says I have to earn love… into I deserve love just as I am.
I use a combination of somatic healing, inner child work, and trauma-informed therapy that goes far beyond surface-level talk. Because the truth is, you don’t just need someone to listen. You need someone to guide you back to yourself.
To help you unhook from the people-pleasing, the chasing, the self-abandonment. You need someone to remind you that you are not the broken little girl anymore—you are a woman who is allowed to have boundaries, allowed to feel loved without begging, allowed to rest in a love that feels safe.
You don’t have to keep trying to earn crumbs from men who cannot love you the way you need. As well, you are allowed to stop fighting for the bad guy to change.
You are allowed to stop settling for pain dressed as passion.
From trauma therapy for women in Connecticut after narcissistic abuse and emotional abuse, you can learn that you are worthy of a love that feels like home—but a home where you’re finally safe, seen, and cherished.
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Why have I always been the peace keeper, to a point where I diminish my own self-respect and self-abandon?
In your childhood and in romantic relationships, you were the calm in the chaos. The responsible one in your family growing up. Stuffing your tears away. Biting your lip and holding back your tears. The emotional sponge. You were the parent to your emotionally unavailable and emotionally abusive, narcissistic mother and father. “Don’t rock the boat,” was a theme growing up that you bring to your romantic relationships. You were the one who never made waves. In trauma therapy for women in Connecticut after narcissistic abuse and emotional abuse, you gain self-esteem, self-worth, and empowerment skills.
You Always Try to Keep the Peace—Even When It Hurts You
As well, you learned early on that your safety depended on keeping the peace—even if it meant sacrificing your own truth.
Now, as an adult, you find yourself doing the same thing in your relationships, friendships, even at work. You avoid conflict at all costs. As well, you say “yes” when you mean “no.”
You smile and nod when something inside you is screaming. You don’t feel safe speaking up. You’re afraid of being “too much.” You’re afraid of the backlash that comes when you finally take up space. But none of this means you’re broken. It means you adapted to survive.
Maybe your mother kept secrets from your dad just to keep the house calm.
Or, you heard her whisper, “What he doesn’t know won’t hurt him.” You watched her tiptoe around his mood swings, change her tone to avoid upsetting him, and stay small to stay safe.
As a child, you absorbed everything. You learned that speaking the truth could lead to yelling, silence, blame, or worse—rage. So, you stayed quiet. You smiled to keep the peace. And, you learned that being invisible was safer than being authentic.
Over time, you didn’t learn self-expression.
You learned survival.
When your nervous system has been wired for danger—when you never knew if love was safe, stable, or explosive—you become hyper-aware of other people’s feelings and completely disconnected from your own. You apologize even when it’s not your fault.
You take the blame to avoid an argument.
Also, you don’t say how you really feel because you fear rejection, abandonment, or being “too much.”
You might find yourself in relationships where you give 110% just to be tolerated.
In these romantic relationships, you keep hoping that if you’re kind enough, calm enough, easy enough, they won’t leave.
But inside? You’re exhausted. You feel like a shell of yourself.
Trauma Therapy for Women in Connecticut After Narcissistic Abuse Rebuilds Self-Esteem and Self-Worth
At Wisdom Within Counseling, you can learn to be brave in your truth.
My name is Katie Ziskind, and I’m a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and trauma-informed yoga therapist. I work with women who feel like they’ve lost themselves in relationships—women like you, who became the peacekeeper, the caretaker, the emotional container, and now don’t even know what they truly want anymore.
In our work together in trauma therapy for women in Connecticut after narcissistic abuse and emotional abuse, you’ll gently reconnect with your own voice.
You’ll rediscover your truth beneath the people-pleasing. We’ll explore the needs you’ve been trained to ignore and the anger, grief, or sadness you’ve buried to “keep things okay.” Through inner child healing, somatic trauma release, and boundary-building tools, you’ll stop shrinking and start becoming the woman you were always meant to be. You’ll begin to understand that keeping the peace outside of you can never create peace inside you.
You weren’t allowed to express anger.
As a child, you were told to “be a good girl.” You were praised for being quiet, obedient, and nice.
So now, when you want to say how you really feel, it feels unsafe. Your throat tightens. Your heart races. You freeze. This isn’t weakness. It’s trauma. It’s your body remembering what it felt like to speak up in a house where that wasn’t allowed.
Maybe you were punished for telling the truth. Or, no one ever asked how you felt. Maybe your needs were always second to someone else’s emotional storm. You were taught to make yourself small—and now you’re learning to take up space.
You are allowed to be loud. Messy. Emotional. Honest.
You don’t have to silence your voice and play the “good girl” anymore.
And, you don’t have to be the emotional shock absorber for everyone around you. You’re allowed to say: “This doesn’t feel good to me.” “I’m not okay with that.” “I need space.” “I’m done shrinking to fit into someone else’s comfort.”
You are allowed to disappoint people who only loved you when you were silent. You are allowed to stop keeping the peace if it costs you your peace.
When you work with me, we do more than talk. We work somatically, because trauma lives in your body. At Wisdom Within Counseling, you gain practice nervous system regulation, emotional safety, and tools that reconnect you with your inner compass—not your people-pleasing patterns.
This might look like learning how to identify your feelings instead of pushing them down, and creating boundaries that don’t come with guilt.
Trauma therapy for women in Connecticut after narcissistic abuse helps you with exploring how your body holds fear and shame.
Emotional abuse is never your fault. Many people shame you for not leaving your boyfriend or husband sooner. Our team of therapists offer compassion and acceptance.
In trauma therapy for women in Connecticut after narcissistic abuse, you get skills for practicing what it feels like to say no without explaining. And, you get tools for building a loving relationship with the parts of you that had to go quiet to survive.
If you live anywhere in Connecticut, you can do this work virtually from the safety of your home—with me as your guide. You are not alone in this.
Many of the women I work with share the same patterns: you feel anxious when someone’s mad at you, you feel guilty setting boundaries, you say yes when you want to say no, you over-explain yourself, you bottle up your needs to avoid confrontation, and you fear being seen as “difficult.”
This isn’t your fault. These are trauma responses—and they are all changeable with compassionate, trauma-informed therapy.
You are worthy of calm love, not conditional love. You are worthy of safety, not secrets. As well, you are allowed to have a voice, take up space, and stop walking on eggshells. Healing is not about becoming someone new.
It’s about returning to the real you—the one who existed before the fear, the silencing, and the pressure to hold everything together for everyone else.
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“Maybe If I Was Prettier, Quieter, Less Emotional…” — Why You Keep Blaming Yourself for His Abuse
You’ve said these things to yourself:
Maybe if I was prettier, he wouldn’t look at other women.
If I was quieter, he wouldn’t snap at me.
Maybe if I didn’t cry so much, he’d want to come home.
IfI was less emotional, he’d stop calling me crazy.
Maybe I just expect too much from him.
If I need to be more patient, and he’ll change.
Now, if you’ve ever thought these things, you’re not alone—and you’re not crazy.
You’re a woman who has been trained to carry the weight of every relationship on your back. As well, you’ve been conditioned to believe that love means proving your worth, tolerating pain, and being loyal no matter how badly you’re treated.
Repeatedly, you find yourself in romantic relationships with emotionally unavailable, narcissistic, and even verbally abusive men—men who cheat, lie, gaslight, and then somehow twist it so you feel like the problem.
These men chip away at your self-esteem while still making you crave their attention. You keep showing up and you keep hoping.
Trauma therapy for women in Connecticut after narcissistic abuse and emotional abuse helps you realize that you deserve a man who gives back to you. In your romantic relationships, you keep thinking if you just do more, be more, love harder—they’ll finally choose you, finally see you, finally treat you right.
But here’s the truth: You’ve been taught to abandon yourself. Childhood trauma has made you play small, make yourself invisible, and have no needs.
Maybe you grew up with a parent whose love was inconsistent, emotionally volatile, or completely absent.
You have never had a male figure in your life that you felt safe talking to, or safe around. Everything was surface level.
Or, your father walked out—or stayed but didn’t see you. Maybe you had to tiptoe around someone’s moods, never knowing what version of them you were going to get.
You became hyper-attuned to other people’s needs and completely disconnected from your own. From childhood trauma, you learned that being lovable meant being easy, quiet, pleasing, and not “too much.”
Now, in your adult romantic relationships and with boyfriends, that same pattern shows up.
You’re drawn to men who mirror your earliest childhood traumas and wounds—boyfriends and men who are unavailable, hot-and-cold, critical, or controlling.
You’re not choosing them consciously; your nervous system is chasing familiarity from childhood trauma. It’s trying to complete the unfinished business of your childhood. It believes that if this man—this emotionally withholding, narcissistic man—can finally love you, then you will finally be good enough.
You keep trying to prove you’re worthy. As well, you hang on to crumbs of affection, hoping that the kind side of him—the side you saw in the honeymoon phase—will come back.
But it never lasts. You tell yourself, “Maybe I’m just sensitive, maybe I expect too much, maybe it’s my fault.”
You start to question your memories, you doubt yourself. From narcissistic abuse, you stop trusting your gut.
That’s what emotional abuse does—it rewires your reality until you can’t tell what’s true anymore.
And still, you stay with a narcissistic, emotionally abusive, cheating boyfriend or husband.
Leaving feels like failure.
Because you’ve been taught that love means never giving up. Deep down, you still believe you’re the one who’s broken.
But hear me now, from someone who works with women like you every day:
You are not broken, you are not too emotional.
And, you are not too sensitive and you are not crazy.
You are a deeply loyal, deeply loving woman who has been giving her all to people who never deserved your heart in the first place.
At Wisdom Within Counseling in Niantic, Connecticut, I work with women like you—women who have lost themselves in relationships, who bend over backwards for emotionally unavailable men.
My team of therapists and I specialize with women who stay long past the point of hurting because they keep hoping love will be enough to change him. My name is Katie Ziskind, and I’m a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and yoga-informed trauma specialist. I help you stop chasing the love you never received—and start becoming the woman you were always meant to be.
Our work together will be about reclaiming your worth—not from a man, but from within. You’ll learn to recognize the emotional abuse patterns you’ve normalized. In trauma counseling, you’ll begin to hear and trust your intuition again. You’ll learn how to stop abandoning yourself for someone who only shows up when it benefits them. And most importantly, you’ll remember how to feel safe in your own body, your own emotions, and your own truth.
You’ll stop asking, “Am I the crazy one?”
And you’ll start saying, “This isn’t love—and I deserve better.”
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In trauma therapy for women in Connecticut after narcissistic abuse and emotional abuse, you can give yourself the love and attention you never got from your alcoholic, narcissistic, emotionally avoidant, angry father growing up.
You’ll understand that being “loyal” to someone who constantly betrays your trust is not love—it’s self-betrayal. And healing that begins with having a safe, supportive space to finally unpack all the gaslighting, the trauma bonding, the emotional gymnastics you’ve done just to feel worthy.
You don’t have to shrink anymore. And, you don’t have to prove anything in trauma therapy for women in Connecticut after narcissistic abuse. You don’t have to stay.
Healing doesn’t mean you stop loving—it means you stop choosing people who only love the version of you that stays silent. And I’ll be here to guide you every step of the way.
Whether you’re still in the relationship and feeling confused, or you’ve already left but still feel haunted by self-doubt and pain, I’m here to help you come back home to yourself.
At Wisdom Within Counseling, my team of therapists and I specialize in trauma therapy for women in Connecticut after narcissistic abuse and emotional abuse.
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Have you put your boyfriends or husband first, prioritizing them before your friends, going back to a cheater, and choose your emotionally abusive boyfriend over your friends?
Have you ever canceled plans with your friends because he suddenly wanted to see you?
Maybe you’ve skipped girl’s nights, lied to your loved ones, or let friendships quietly fade because your boyfriend didn’t like them, didn’t trust them, or said they “didn’t understand” your relationship.
Or, deep down, you feared that if you didn’t drop everything for him, he’d disappear. So you put him first—again and again—because you were afraid that if you didn’t, you’d lose him. But the truth is, you were losing yourself.
There’s a painful pattern that so many strong, loving, loyal women fall into—and it begins with choosing crumbs over connection.
You start accepting the bare minimum because some love feels better than none at all.
And, you start mistaking inconsistency for passion. One day, he’s warm and attentive, and the next, he’s cold, distant, or downright cruel. And every time he gives you a little affection—just a touch, a sweet text, a glance of approval—it pulls you right back in. That’s not love, that’s intermittent reinforcement. And it’s the emotional trap that makes walking away feel impossible.
When you’re in an emotionally abusive relationship, your world gets smaller.
He doesn’t outright tell you to stop seeing your friends—but he rolls his eyes when you mention them. And, he questions their loyalty. He plants seeds of doubt: “They don’t like me,” “They’re jealous,” “They don’t want us to be happy.”
Slowly, you start isolating yourself, not because you want to, but because you think that keeping the peace will keep the relationship. You don’t see it happening until one day you realize—you have no one left but him.
Are you going back to a man who has cheated, gotten explosively angry, lied, and broken your heart more than once?
Why? Because he knows exactly how to pull you back in. After every betrayal, he becomes sweet again. He cries, he apologizes, and he swears he’s changed.
And you want so badly to believe it because you’ve invested so much of yourself into him. You keep hoping that if you just love him enough, support him enough, fix him enough—he’ll become the man you believed he was at the beginning. But that man? He was part of the cycle, not the reality.
Breadcrumbs are the tiny bits of affection he gives you just often enough to keep you hooked.
A good morning text after days of silence, and a compliment when you’re about to walk away.
“you’re the only one who understands me” is the line when he knows you’re done. Those breadcrumbs are powerful. They activate the part of you that wants to feel chosen, loved, and wanted.
But breadcrumbs aren’t a meal. You deserve a full, nourishing love—not these small, manipulative doses of hope he doles out to keep you in line.
You might be the type of woman who gives 1000% in a relationship.
Identifying as loyal, empathetic, caring, and loving, you love hard. You forgive deeply. As well, you try to understand his pain, his childhood, his triggers. But while you’re trying to heal him, he’s breaking you. You’re not just in love—you’re trauma bonded. Your nervous system is addicted to the highs and lows, the chaos and calm, the love and withdrawal. It’s not your fault. You were never taught what safe, steady love looks like. But that doesn’t mean you’re meant to stay in the storm.
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Do you feel guilt for even questioning your romantic relationship or your marriage?
Does he make you feel like you’re selfish for needing time with friends or space to think? This is emotional control disguised as love. He flips the script so you’re always the bad guy.
You’re too needy, too emotional, too dramatic. And when you get upset—understandably so—he tells you you’re overreacting. That constant invalidation makes you doubt yourself, until the only person you believe is the one causing your pain.
Are you in a magnetic pull of prioritizing toxic relationships over yourself and your friendships, and keep going back to a cheater or abuser?
Maybe you’re scared to tell your friends the truth about your relationship because they’ve warned you before.
They’ve watched you go back after every cheating incident, every lie, every silent treatment. And you’re ashamed. You know they’re right, but you don’t want to feel judged. So you stop reaching out. You stop opening up. And you end up even more alone. That’s exactly what he wants. The more isolated you become, the easier it is for him to keep control.
You’ve likely been taught your entire life to be the peacekeeper.
To keep things together, no matter how broken they are. To hold on, be patient, be kind—even if it means abandoning yourself in the process.
But real love doesn’t require you to disappear. It doesn’t ask you to turn on your friends, to silence your voice, or to lower your standards, it asks you to rise. And that begins with recognizing that choosing yourself is not selfish—it’s survival.
At Wisdom Within Counseling in East Lyme, Connecticut, I work with emotionally abused women just like you.
Women who have dimmed their light to make a man feel more powerful. And, women who have ignored red flags because they were afraid of being alone. Women who’ve traded safety and sisterhood for the illusion of love. You don’t have to do this alone.
In our trauma therapy sessions together—available virtually across Connecticut—I will help you heal from trauma bonds, rebuild your self-worth, and reclaim your voice. You are not crazy, you are not broken, and you are not too much. You are worthy of a love that doesn’t ask you to shrink.
Trauma Therapy for Women in Connecticut After Narcissistic Abuse Helps Heal Your Inner Child Wounds From Your Narcissistic, Emotionally Abusive Father
Was your dad physically there, but emotionally gone? Maybe you remember seeing him in the living room, beer in hand, but he never looked up when you walked by. Maybe he’d explode at the smallest thing, and the house felt like walking on eggshells.
Or, maybe he just never showed up at all. Either way, a deep part of you still aches for that fatherly presence—the strong, steady love you never got. You needed safety, you needed connection.
But instead, you got silence, criticism, or chaos. And now you keep looking for that safety in all the wrong places.
You remember the night you needed someone—anyone—to answer the phone. Your boyfriend had just screamed in your face. He threw something, maybe it shattered.
Maybe you were shaking. You picked up the phone to call your dad because deep down, you still believed maybe this time he’d be there. Maybe this time he’d protect you, help you, show up.
But he didn’t. He ignored the call. Or worse, he answered and told you to “stop being dramatic.” That heartbreak—the moment you realized your father wouldn’t be your protector—is something no daughter should ever carry alone.
Your dad chose addiction, alcoholism, rage, or work over you.
He was too high to notice your pain. Too drunk to ask how your day was. Too angry to listen. Or too busy to care.
And while you may have learned to hide the hurt, it never left you. It shows up now in the way you over-explain, over-apologize, and over-function in your relationships. You’ve spent your life trying to be “good enough” to make a man stay, to love you the way you always wanted your father to—but no man has filled that wound. And it’s not your fault.
You were never Daddy’s little girl—not because you didn’t deserve to be, but because he wasn’t capable of being the father you needed.
Maybe he shamed you for the way you dressed, judged you for your choices, and made you feel like your emotions were wrong. Or, he told you, “You made your bed, now lie in it,” when you came to him heartbroken. You didn’t need punishment. You needed a hug, you needed someone to say, “I’ve got you.”
But instead, you were left alone, trying to hold yourself together with broken pieces of a father-daughter relationship that never truly existed.
Now, you find yourself choosing emotionally unavailable men—men who feel eerily familiar.
They have your dad’s silence, his criticism, his unpredictability. You might be with someone who yells when he’s frustrated, just like your father did. And, you might be walking on eggshells again. You think, “If I just love him enough, maybe he’ll stop.”
That longing to fix, to heal, to hold on—it isn’t about him. It’s about your little girl self, still reaching out to a dad who never reached back.
You learned to be the emotional adult as a child—caring for your father’s moods, hiding your feelings, becoming “low-maintenance” so you wouldn’t upset him.
And now, you do the same in your relationships. You shrink, you say you’re fine when you’re not. You take care of everyone else while no one takes care of you. And you wonder why you feel invisible. It’s because you were taught early on that your needs didn’t matter.
But they do. You do.
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You might even feel guilty for wanting your father’s love. You tell yourself, “He did the best he could.”
And maybe he did. But that doesn’t erase your pain. That doesn’t change the fact that he chose his alcoholism, work, or drug addiction over your birthday party, his temper over your tears, his absence over your presence.
You deserved better then. And you still do now. It’s okay to grieve the dad you needed but never had.
When your father doesn’t protect you, doesn’t guide you, doesn’t show up—it distorts how you see men, love, and yourself. You begin to believe that love is pain. That love means chasing, proving, fixing.
You start to think you have to earn affection, and that when someone mistreats you, you must be the problem.
From Trauma Therapy for Women in Connecticut After Narcissistic Abuse, You Can Learn You Are Deeply Worthy Of Safe, Consistent Love.
That belief keeps you stuck in cycles with abusive or narcissistic partners, where you feel like you’re constantly trying to win a battle that’s stacked against you.
Sometimes, you still wish he’d call.
You wish he’d say, “I’m sorry. I was wrong. You didn’t deserve that.” And, you wish he could be the strong father figure you needed all those years ago. That ache doesn’t just vanish with age.
It lingers. As well, it shows up at night when you’re lying next to someone who doesn’t see your worth. It flares up when you’re silenced or criticized by your partner or husband.
And it’s not just a marriage and relationship issue—it’s a childhood wound that never got the healing it needed.
At Wisdom Within Counseling, I work with women like you—women who were emotionally abandoned by their fathers and now find themselves repeating painful cycles.
In our trauma counseling work together, I help you connect the dots between your past and present.
From there, you can stop blaming yourself, stop chasing unavailable love, and start building a relationship with the one person who will never leave you: you. You are not too sensitive, you are not too emotional. And, you are NOT hard to love. You are not broken.
At Wisdom Within Counseling in East Lyme, Connecticut, our therapists specialize with women who experienced emotional abandonment from their fathers and are now stuck in painful patterns with narcissistic or abusive partners.
Are you done shrinking to fit into your cheating boyfriend’s view of how he wants to see you, or trying to comfort him when he cries? You no longer have to bottle up your needs to avoid confrontation. Our therapists specialize with women like you heal from the pain of repeated relationship cycles with emotionally unavailable, cheating, or abusive partners.
You don’t have to be the emotional shock absorber or the peacekeeper for everyone around you.
When you are stuck in people-pleasing patterns, our trauma specialists help you connect with your voice. You no longer have to carry the heavy pressure to hold everything together and be perfect for everyone else. As a child, you absorbed everything. It was your fault if your narcissistic, emotionally abusive, alcohol father was angry. And, it was your fault for not keeping the peace, keeping him happy, or keeping him calm.
I’m Katie Ziskind, and I’m a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, complex-PTSD specialist, and trauma-informed yoga therapist.
You narcissistic, alcoholic, and emotionally chaotic was not there for you in the way you needed. Through childhood trauma, you learned that speaking the truth could lead to yelling, silence, blame, or worse—rage. So, you stayed quiet. No longer do you have to silence your voice and put up with narcissistic abuse.
I work with women who feel like they’ve lost themselves in relationships—women like you, who became the peacekeeper, the caretaker, the emotional container, and now don’t even know what they truly want anymore.
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You might be pouring yourself a glass of wine every night just to get through the evening.
At first, it felt like a little comfort, a way to take the edge off. But now, it’s starting to feel like the only way you can numb the chaos, the shame, the sadness you can’t quite name. When your marriage or romantic relationship feels like a minefield and your voice gets lost in the noise of his anger or indifference, alcohol can feel like a false friend.
With Katie Ziskind, complex trauma therapist in Connecticut specializing in narcissistic abuse, you’ll begin to untangle the emotional reasons behind your drinking. And, in complex trauma counseling you can build healthier, lasting ways to feel calm, safe, and heard.
You might drink to quiet your thoughts—those racing voices that say, “Why am I still here?” “Why do I keep putting up with this?” “Why can’t I speak up?” In your relationship, alcohol has become your peacekeeper.
It silences the scream inside that wants to demand more, ask for respect, and beg for real connection. With Katie Ziskind’s support, you’ll learn how this pattern is not your fault. Together, you’ll begin to reconnect with your truth, your needs, and your power—without having to pour another drink.
Maybe your partner has told you you’re the problem.
That you’re too sensitive, that you drink too much.
Maybe he uses your coping mechanisms as weapons against you—while ignoring the emotional abuse you endure daily. With Katie Ziskind in East Lyme, Connecticut, you’ll step into a therapy space that validates your experience, holds compassion for your pain, and sees the full picture.
Katie Ziskind, complex trauma therapist in Connecticut specializing in narcissistic abuse, specializes in working with women who feel emotionally stuck. She specializes with women who are afraid to speak up, and who turn to substances just to survive.
You are not alone—and your coping makes sense given the trauma you’ve endured.
As well, you might feel ashamed that you drink. But drinking was never the real issue.
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Are you silently drowning in a cycle of emotional abuse, shame, and alcohol use—just to survive your relationship?
It’s the pain underneath—the loneliness, the feeling of walking on eggshells, the fear of setting him off—that drives you to reach for something to dull the ache.
Katie Ziskind helps you safely explore that hidden pain with compassion and deep trauma-informed care. She helps you reconnect to the parts of yourself that have been silenced, judged, and shamed. And, Katie Ziskind gives you the tools to stop abandoning yourself in the process.
There’s a reason you keep drinking, and it’s not because you’re broken. It’s because your nervous system has been running on overdrive, stuck in survival mode for years.
You deserve more than living in a numb state and dealing with chronic fight, flight, and freeze responses.
From childhood trauma, you’ve learned to keep the peace at all costs—to stay small, quiet, agreeable—because somewhere inside, you were taught that speaking your truth would lead to explosion, abandonment, or ridicule. Katie Ziskind understands these trauma-rooted coping patterns and offers a space where your emotional reality is seen and understood, not judged.
You may be trying to cope with betrayal, gaslighting, or constant emotional neglect.
And instead of being able to cry, scream, or speak up—you drink. It’s the one thing that helps you survive the night. Katie Ziskind gently helps you find your voice again.
Her work as a complex trauma therapist and marriage specialist isn’t about taking away your only coping skill—it’s about giving you more tools, more healing, more space to process what’s been too overwhelming to face alone. You don’t have to stay in survival mode anymore.
With Katie Ziskind, you can begin to understand why you learned to disappear emotionally in your relationship, and why alcohol became a substitute for connection, validation, or safety.
In your trauma therapy sessions, you’ll explore your childhood patterns. You can talk about memories of when you had a parent who drank too much, or one who was emotionally volatile.
These early dynamics laid the foundation for the pain you now carry.
Katie Ziskind helps you make sense of your story so that you can write a new chapter—not one based on shame, but on freedom and self-worth.
You’ve probably tried to “just stop drinking alcohol” before.
Maybe you made promises to yourself after another night of feeling ashamed or waking up next to a man who doesn’t even ask if you’re okay. But willpower alone doesn’t heal trauma. What you need is safety, compassion, and someone who understands what it feels like to lose yourself in a toxic relationship.
Are you using alcohol to survive a toxic or emotionally abusive relationship?
Katie Ziskind, trauma specialist in East Lyme, CT, helps women heal from emotional abuse, shame, and unhealthy coping patterns through trauma-informed therapy.
To note, Katie Ziskind offers more than CPTSD, holistic trauma therapy. She offers a deeply attuned, empowering space to begin recovering not just from alcohol, but from the deeper traumatic wounds that caused it.
Katie Ziskind knows that emotionally abusive relationships make you doubt yourself.
You’re told you’re overreacting, being crazy, or that everything is your fault.
This constant invalidation is exhausting, and alcohol often becomes a way to shut down the emotional noise. But in therapy with Katie Ziskind, you’ll learn to trust yourself again.
You’ll uncover the truth beneath the gaslighting and emotional manipulation, and start reclaiming your inner clarity.
Healing from narcissistic abuse in childhood and in romantic relationships isn’t about being perfect. Katie Ziskind, complex trauma therapist in Connecticut specializing in narcissistic abuse, helps you get real with yourself. From counseling for complex trauma symptoms, you can connect to yourself in a way that feels honest, and free.
When you’re ready, Katie Ziskind, complex trauma therapist in East Lyme, Connecticut specializing in narcissistic abuse, is here to walk beside you.
You are not weak for coping using alcohol. Katie Ziskind, complex trauma therapist in Connecticut specializing in narcissistic abuse, helps you see that you are incredibly strong for surviving.
But now, you deserve more than survival. You deserve peace without pouring a drink, you deserve to feel heard without silencing yourself. And, you deserve to live without walking on eggshells.
Katie Ziskind, trauma therapist and CPTSD specialist, based in East Lyme, Connecticut, can help you move from numbing using alcohol to inner child healing. In counseling, you can shift from from chaos to calm, from negative coping and masking, to thriving and authenticity.
You can create a life that finally feels like yours again.
Individual therapy is often the better choice when:
When Your Partner Refuses to Go to Couples Therapy
If your partner isn’t willing to participate in couples counseling, individual therapy gives you a space to process your emotions. You can gain clarity, and learn healthy coping strategies. Healing can still begin with just one person.
Needing to Reconnect with Yourself
Sometimes, you lose sight of who you are in a relationship—especially in emotionally abusive, codependent, or toxic dynamics. Individual therapy helps you rediscover your voice, needs, and desires. And, you can set boundaries without the pressure of keeping the relationship intact.
Healing from Trauma
If you’ve experienced childhood trauma, narcissistic abuse, infidelity, or emotional neglect, individual therapy allows you to go deeper into your pain without feeling like you need to protect or manage your partner’s reactions. This is especially important if you’re a people-pleaser or peacekeeper.
You’re in a Relationship with Someone Emotionally Unsafe
If your partner is manipulative, gaslights you, or makes therapy unsafe by twisting the narrative, it’s not the right time for couples work. In these cases, individual therapy helps you build your self-worth, recognize red flags, and explore options for safety and healing.
Considering Staying or Leaving
Individual therapy can help you gain clarity on whether the relationship is truly aligned with your needs and values. It’s a safe space to explore confusion, ambivalence, and fear about ending a relationship that isn’t working.
You Keep Choosing Emotionally Unavailable Partners
If you notice a pattern of yourself being drawn to emotionally distant, narcissistic, or unfaithful partners, individual therapy can help you uncover the unconscious childhood wounds driving those choices. So, you can start breaking the cycle.
Help Strengthening Your Boundaries
If you’ve always been the giver, the fixer, or the one who sacrifices for the sake of the relationship, individual therapy can help you learn to set boundaries without guilt and reclaim your right to take up emotional space.
You’re Experiencing Anxiety, Depression, Alcoholism, or Addictive Coping
When emotional stress from your relationship leads to numbing through alcohol, overworking, obsessive thoughts, or self-doubt, individual therapy helps you address the root pain and develop healthier ways to self-soothe.
Want to Grow, But Your Partner Isn’t
Your healing journey doesn’t have to wait. In East Lyme, Connecticut, you can start changing your relationship with yourself today. Often, self-care in therapy leads to positive changes in your outer relationships—whether your partner joins you or not.
You Need to Feel Seen, Heard, and Understood
When you’ve spent years prioritizing others, individual therapy gives you space to be the focus. You deserve to have someone show up just for you, validate your pain, and help you understand your emotional truth.
If you’re ready to stop shrinking yourself, stop settling for crumbs, and start creating a life that honors your worth, individual therapy with a trauma-informed specialist like Katie Ziskind in East Lyme, Connecticut, might be the next step in your healing. Whether you’re navigating emotional abuse, trying to break toxic patterns, or learning to love yourself again, you don’t have to do it alone.
Can couples therapy work for us, if my spouse is willing to change and wants to grow with me?
Couples therapy with C-PTSD specialist Katie Ziskind in East Lyme, Connecticut, offers a deeply healing space for couples who are committed to doing the work together.
When both you and your partner are willing to change, grow, and develop self-awareness, something truly transformational can happen in your relationship. This isn’t surface-level couples therapy—it’s not just about learning to communicate better or fight less.
To note, PTSD focused couples counseling is about looking within, exploring your childhood pain. Trauma specialized marriage counseling is about facing the dysfunctional generational patterns that you both might be unknowingly repeating in your relationship today.
You might be realizing that your arguments aren’t just about laundry or who’s picking up the kids.
They’re rooted in something much deeper—abandonment wounds, unmet emotional needs from childhood, or a fear of rejection that was planted early on.
In couples therapy with Katie Ziskind, you’ll gently explore how your earliest experiences of love and connection—or the lack of it—are impacting your current relationship dynamic.
You’ll begin to understand how unresolved childhood trauma can create cycles of disconnection, miscommunication, and emotional triggers in your adult relationship.
When you work with Katie Ziskind, you’re not just learning skills. You’re learning how to sit with your pain, without snapping or yelling at each other. PTSD marriage counseling and couples therapy teaches you how to how to be witnessed in your truth. To add, PTSD marriage counseling helps you learn how to hold space for your partner’s triggers and emotional world, too.
In couples therapy, you’ll come to see that your triggers don’t make you broken—they make you human.
And when both of you are willing to take accountability and look at your own patterns instead of blaming each other, healing can begin.
Together, you’ll unpack the ways you’ve learned to protect yourselves emotionally—shutting down, becoming critical, avoiding vulnerability—and instead, learn how to safely open up again.
Katie specializes in working with couples where both individuals have experienced trauma, C-PTSD, emotional neglect, or chaotic upbringings.
If you were raised in a home where love was conditional, emotions weren’t safe to express, or where you had to be the peacemaker or caretaker, you might still be carrying those roles into your romantic relationship.
Katie will help you gently unlearn these patterns and find a new, healthy way of relating—one that’s based on emotional safety, trust, and mutual respect.
This kind of trauma focused couples therapy asks you to be brave.
To not just say, “I want things to get better,” but to actually show up and do the work it takes to make them better. You’ll talk about your fears—of abandonment, of not being enough, of being hurt again.
You’ll have space to grieve the childhood love you didn’t get, and you’ll be guided in creating a new kind of love with your partner—one that’s grounded in compassion and emotional connection rather than fear, control, or avoidance.
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Healing in a marriage and relationship after trauma is absolutely possible, but both people have to be committed to their own personal growth.
Katie Ziskind creates a safe and nurturing environment for you and your partner to learn how to co-regulate, meaning you’ll learn how to calm your nervous systems together, rather than triggering each other into fight, flight, or freeze responses. You’ll begin to feel what it’s like to be emotionally present for one another, to truly listen, and to validate each other’s inner child wounds.
Many couples come to therapy thinking they’re broken beyond repair.
But the truth is, when two people are willing to look inward, to take emotional responsibility, and to be honest about their needs and wounds, healing becomes possible.
Katie’s approach to couples therapy goes far beyond surface-level communication tips—it’s a trauma-informed, emotionally attuned process that supports deep, lasting transformation.
You’ll be guided to reconnect not only with each other but with your own inner worlds.
This creates a ripple effect of healing: as you understand yourself more deeply, you begin to understand your partner in a new way, too. You develop empathy for each other’s stories and pain, and from that empathy, you can begin to build a stronger, more emotionally connected foundation for your relationship.
If you and your partner are both ready to grow, to talk about the hard stuff, and to commit to creating something new together, couples therapy with Katie Ziskind in East Lyme, Connecticut, can be a life-changing journey.
Whether you’re in Southeastern Connecticut or joining virtually from anywhere in the state, you’ll have access to a highly skilled, compassionate therapist who can guide you both toward a more secure, loving, and resilient relationship—one built not on past trauma, but on healing and conscious love.
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