Narcissistic abuse is one of those horrible life experience that usually necessitates the help of a therapist to fully recover from. But the quality of therapists varies massively, and it’s become clear from the experiences of many (including me) that there are a lot of therapists who aren’t suitable for this sort of work.

Therefore, it’s not advisable to just pick the first therapist you find in the phone book, and go from there. You need to be a lot more selective than that when trying to recover from narcissistic abuse, since the therapist needs to have very specialized skills to be effective with this kind of work.

Put more simply, they need to be a good. Not average or mediocre.

This means there ideally needs to be a more rigorous screening process with therapists when you’re looking to recover from narcissistic abuse. That’s what I created this guide for, based on my own experiences (and mistakes I’ve made in this regard).

Here’s what this guide offers you:

• Detailed and precise requirements (in terms of knowledge base and skills sets) that any therapist you work with MUST have to make the process successful.
• Simple step by step process on how to find, and then contact, a suitable therapist in your area.
• Suggestions of some therapeutic schools and modalities which can be effective for this work
• The one school of psychotherapy to avoid for this sort of work
• How to know when you’ve found a good therapist.
• How to know when you’re working with an unsuitable therapist and need to move on (very detailed section on this as it’s very important)
• Some suggested steps and scripts for if you do need to stop working with a therapist if you struggle to do this (for co-dependent/people pleaser types)
• A detailed picture of what good therapy looks like and what must come from BOTH sides (therapist and client) to make it successful.
• Some suggested books and resources to use to help with therapy.

It’s around 7,000 words in total, so I’ve tried to really cover the topic pretty exhaustively and give you a strong framework and plan with which you can begin your search for a suitable therapist who’s going to get you where you need to go. Good luck!