Narcissistic Abuse Support Group
12-Week Narcissistic Abuse Support Group
A safe space to understand your experience, rebuild trust in yourself, and move forward
Phase 1: Safety & Awareness
Week 1: Building Safety & Shared Experience
This week focuses on sharing your experiences and identifying relationship dynamics. We’ll begin building safety, connection, and shared language in the group.
Week 2: Understanding Emotional Abuse
Learn to identify patterns like gaslighting and self-gaslighting, and explore how these dynamics have shown up in your own life.
Week 3: Trauma Responses to Abuse
Explore fight, flight, freeze, fawn, and feign responses, and understand how your nervous system adapted to survive.
Week 4: The Narcissist’s Voice & Staying Grounded in Real Time
For many people, the dynamic is still ongoing. This week explores how its impact continues to show up in real time—through direct contact (the “itch” of frustration or the “burn” of self-doubt) and indirect lingering effects like guilt, shame, or mental replaying that persist even after distance.
Using the metaphor of emotional poison ivy, we’ll focus on staying grounded in your own experience so you can move through interactions without losing yourself.
Phase 2: Emotional Processing & Reclaiming Self
Week 5: Complex Emotions
Explore guilt, shame, anger, disgust, love, and envy, and learn how contradictory emotions can coexist. You’ll begin noticing how some emotions may feel like an “itch” or a “burn” without needing to judge or resolve them immediately.
Week 6: Rebuilding Truth (DBT Skills)
When your reality has been challenged, it can be hard to trust your own perceptions. This week introduces practical skills to notice and describe what’s actually happening in real time—so you can feel more grounded, clear, and confident in your understanding of your experience.
Week 7: Participating in Your Life & Building Self-Trust (DBT Skill)
Even when these dynamics are ongoing, it’s possible to stay connected to your own life. This week focuses on stepping out of reactive loops, engaging more fully in the present moment, and strengthening trust in yourself as you move forward.
Week 8: Fear of Becoming the Abuser
Explore fears of being the problem, and how narcissistic dynamics can internalize guilt and shame. This week focuses on separating learned patterns from your identity and reducing self-doubt.
Phase 3: Relational Healing & Integration
Week 9: Feeling Alone and Not Believed
Narcissistic abuse is often invisible to others. When someone presents a different version of reality, it can leave you feeling dismissed, minimized, or even questioning yourself. This week focuses on the pain of not being believed, how the narcissist’s “mask” impacts outside perception, and building language to express your experience in a way that feels grounding and self-validating.
Week 10: Freedom and Isolation
Creating distance can bring a sense of peace—but also loneliness. This week explores the tension between freedom and isolation, and how narcissistic abuse can impact not just individuals, but entire systems and relationships.
Week 11: Radical Acceptance
When your experience hasn’t been seen or believed, it’s easy to stay stuck trying to prove, explain, or make sense of it. This week introduces radical acceptance as a way to release that ongoing struggle—not as approval of what happened, but as a way to stop being pulled back into it.
We’ll focus on letting go of the need for external validation and finding a more grounded, internal sense of resolution.
Week 12: Closing & Reflection
This final week is a space to reflect on your growth, recognize shifts in perspective, and identify what healing still feels needed. We’ll focus on honoring your progress and supporting your next steps forward.
This virtual group will be facilitated by Theo Meyer and hosted through Zoom.