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Gaslighting: Help Clients Escape and Rebuild from a Narcissist's Emotional Abuse

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The manipulation is usually insidious and slow.

And working with clients experiencing narcissistic abuse (gaslighting), requires you to simultaneously understand the confusing nature of narcissistic behavior AND the deep and painful wounds of the abuse survivor.

Victims of gaslighting often feel they’re unable to disclose the abuse, or even unaware of the abuse due to discrediting by the perpetrator as “crazy”. Clients are left feeling unsure of reality—trapped in a web of manipulation and control.

Join Stephanie Sarkis, PhD, author of Gaslighting, who has helped thousands of clients identify gaslighting and extract themselves from unbearable suffering perpetrated by narcissists and sociopaths.

Dr. Sarkis will give you the tools needed to identify and treat the emotional abuse of gaslighting, and understand the behavior patterns of those inflicting the emotional abuse.

You’ll learn:

  • Top 10 questions for uncovering gaslighting abuse in your clients
  • To identify love bombing and hoovering
  • Signs and fallout from emotional abuse
  • The complexities of the grieving process when leaving a gaslighter
  • Tools to help clients rebuild self-awareness and emotional balance
  • And More!

Don’t let this underserved population of abuse go untreated. The quicker we can identify the signs and psychological ramifications of gaslighting, the sooner we can help clients rebuild their lives.

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Here's What You'll Learn


A More Dangerous Form of Emotional Abuse
  • Potential for domestic homicide is higher
  • Lifetime attachment issues for children witnessing the abuse
  • Parental alienation
  • Chronic loss of self-esteem; higher suicide rates
  • Unpacking profile of perpetrator
Warning Signs and Assessment:
  • Vicious cycle of the trauma bond
  • Manipulating through fear, obligation & guilt
  • Reverse victim and offender
  • Healthy boundaries met with punishing behavior
  • Punishing with stonewalling
  • Intermittent positive reinforcement (breadcrumbing)
  • Jekyll and Hyde personality
Evidence-Based Practices to Help Gaslighting Victim

CBT
  • Advanced cognitive restructuring for common distortions held by gaslighting victims
  • Activity scheduling to help victims of gaslighting reconnect with routines and stability
ACT
  • Confront uncomfortable feelings
  • Decrease dissociative episodes through mindfulness
  • Help clients become more aware of physical and emotional manifestations of trauma through mindfulness exercises
  • Use values clarification exercises to help clients find direction and motivation
Bowen Family Systems Therapy
  • Identify intergenerational trauma and patterns
  • Create genograms of a client’s family to reveal patterns of behavior and relationships
Solution-Focused
  • Uncover existing boundaries and strengths
  • "Magic question" to establish goals and create hope for your client
  • 1 to 10 scale to track progress and note exceptions
DBT
  • Distress tolerance skills
  • Encourage journaling to process emotions and review progress
  • Engage in role-play to practice coping skills and assert boundaries in potentially stressful situations
Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy
  • Focus on client’s "felt experience" by paying attention to what the body is feeling
  • Help clients put words and descriptions to their physical experiences
Trauma-Informed Guiding Principles
  • Safety, choice, collaboration, and empowerment
  • Provide clients with a clear consent form detailing your processes and their rights in therapy
  • Techniques to enhance the collaborative focus of trauma-informed therapy
THE ONES WHO REALLY GET UNDER YOUR SKIN

Healing from Family-of-Origin and Complicated Grief
  • Gaslighting parent – "golden child" & "scapegoat"
  • Insecure attachment - narcissist
  • Permission to detach, reduce, or cease communication
  • Sticking to healthy boundaries
  • Reverse relationship patterns
  • Case study: Cassie, 60-year-old female, family-of-origin engages in gaslighting
Healing from Narcissistic Partners
  • Rediscover and reestablish healthy boundaries
  • Protect children and pets
  • Establish financial security
  • Define what makes a healthy relationship
  • Cope with going no-contact or low-contact
  • Common issues when coparenting with a gaslighter and solutions
Help Clients Rebuild Their Lives
  • Strategies for co-parenting with gaslighter
  • Legal protections for clients/children
  • Formation of healthy boundaries
  • Case study: Jamie, 45-years-old, co-parenting with a narcissist
  • Case study: 35-years-old, co-parenting with gaslighting ex-partner
Potential Pitfalls for Therapists
  • Triangulation of therapist
  • Being swayed by gaslighter’s charisma
  • Frustration over client returning to relationship
  • Pushing own agenda of client independence
  • Vicarious traumatization
  • Vicarious trauma or trauma from actions of gaslighter/narcissist
  • Burnout
  • Risks and limitations

Everything You're Getting


  • More than 6 hours of video content
  • Up to 6.25 CE credits
  • Certificate of completion
  • Handouts and resources

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Gaslighting: Help Clients Escape and Rebuild from a Narcissist's Emotional Abuse
Digital Seminar
$249.99

Meet Your Experts


Stephanie Sarkis, PhD, NCC, DCMHS, LMHC

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Dr. Stephanie Sarkis is a renowned therapist and leading expert on gaslighting and ADHD. With over two decades of experience as a clinician, author, and speaker, Dr. Sarkis has become a trusted voice in the fight against gaslighting and related forms of psychological manipulation. Her groundbreaking book, Gaslighting: Recognize Manipulative and Emotionally Abusive People – and Break Free, has become a must-read for anyone seeking to understand the devastating impact of gaslighting and how to heal from its effects. Dr. Sarkis is a frequent contributor to major media outlets including CNN, The Washington Post and Forbes. Dr. Sarkis a licensed mental health counselor, national certified counselor, AMHCA Diplomate and clinical specialist in child and adolescent counseling, and a Florida Supreme Court-certified family and circuit mediator. Her latest book Healing from Toxic Relationships is available now. Visit her website at www.stephaniesarkis.com

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Stephanie Moulton Sarkis maintains a private practice. She serves as a contributor to Forbes, The Huffington Post, and Psychology Today and is an advisory panel member for Evergreen Certifications. Dr. Sarkis is a facilitator for Collaborative Divorce. She receives royalties as a published author. She receives a speaking honorarium, recording, and book royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Stephanie Moulton Sarkis is a professional expert for Understood.org, part of the National Center for Learning Disabilities. She is a member of the Attention Deficit Disorder Association, American Mental Health Counselors Association, Children and Adults with Attention Deficit Disorder, and the National Board for Certified Counselors.

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Media Type:
Digital Seminar
Product Code:
POS057880
Duration:
6 hours, 20 minutes
Copyright:
Aug 08, 2025
Closed Captions:
Available
Format:
Audio and Video

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