You've spent so long being told you're the problem.
A small, closed, neurodiversity-affirming group for women healing from emotional abuse — a place to find clarity, rebuild self-trust, and finally stop questioning yourself.
You might be reading this and thinking, this probably isn't for me.
Maybe it wasn't "that bad." Maybe there was no yelling, no bruises — just years of feeling small, confused, and never quite sure whether you were remembering things right. Maybe you've already left, and you're wondering why you still don't feel like yourself.
If any of that sounds familiar, you are exactly the woman this group is for. You don't need a dramatic story to deserve support. You don't need permission to want to trust your own mind again.
Learning to trust yourself again, after being made to doubt everything.
This is a semi-structured, therapist-led online group for women healing from emotional abuse or a controlling relationship. It's also built, from the ground up, to be a neurodivergent-affirming space.
Many of the women who find their way here are autistic, AuDHD, or neurodivergent — often without any formal diagnosis. They've spent a lifetime being told they're "too sensitive," "too much," or that they "read things wrong," and then ended up with a partner who used those exact words against them. If that's you, you'll be understood here.
And if you don't identify as neurodivergent, you're just as welcome. What every woman in this group shares is simpler than any label: the experience of being made to doubt herself.
The work we do, together.
Naming what's happening
Understanding emotional abuse patterns and easing the constant, exhausting self-doubt.
Trauma bonds & attachment
Exploring why these relationships can feel so hard to leave, or to detach from once you have.
Rebuilding self-trust
Reconnecting with your thoughts, feelings, and instincts after years of being told you "read things wrong."
Boundaries without guilt
Healthy boundaries, people-pleasing and masking patterns, and communicating what you need.
Nervous system healing
Trauma responses, anxiety, hypervigilance, sensory overload, and coming back to regulation.
Identity & self-worth
Reconnecting with your strengths, values, and sense of self outside of survival mode.
Healthy relationships ahead
What emotionally healthy relationships look and feel like going forward — and how to recognize them.
Integration & moving forward
Reflecting on growth, healing, grief, future goals, and the support that comes next.
A 62-page fillable workbook
Designed to support your reflections during sessions and in the weeks between them.
Emotional abuse lands differently when you're autistic or AuDHD — and most groups never name it. This one does.
Masking makes the self-doubt heavier
A lifetime of overriding your needs to keep others comfortable doesn't switch off in a relationship. It can leave you unsure you're even allowed to be upset.
Gaslighting hits a nervous system already told it gets things wrong
When you've spent years being told you "misread" things, it's genuinely hard to tell manipulation from a difference in how you process. We untangle that, gently.
You don't have to mask in here
No eye contact required. No performing "engaged." Stimming is welcome. So is bluntness, so is silence, so is needing a moment to find your words.
No diagnosis, or certainty, required
A lot of the women in this work are still figuring that part out. You belong here whether you're diagnosed, self-diagnosed, or simply wondering.
Clear and simple, so you know what you're saying yes to.
Women healing from emotional abuse or a controlling relationship. Neurodivergent women especially welcome — diagnosis never required.
8 weekly sessions, 90 minutes each. Next cohort starts Fall 2026.
Online via secure video. A closed cohort — the same small group meets together for the full 8 weeks.
Small and intentional, so everyone has room to be seen. Limited to 6 women.
Because this is therapist-facilitated, you'll need to be located in Louisiana, Florida, or Virginia.
TBA. Spots are limited by the size of the group — the earlier you book a consult, the more room there is.
Amanda Morris, LCSW
I'm a neurodiversity-affirming, trauma-informed therapist with more than 25 years of clinical experience, and I'm an AuDHD woman myself. I know what it is to spend decades being told you're too much, too sensitive, or overreacting — and to slowly realize how much of your life has been spent managing everyone else.
My style is warm and genuine. I'm not here to fix you, because you were never broken. I'm here to sit with you while you set down what you no longer need to carry, and help you build something steadier underneath.
Read More About MeTwo ways to enroll, whichever feels easiest.
The full 8-week group is $800. Choose the option that fits your life, and we can sort out the details together on your consult.
One simple payment at registration — $80 less than the full rate, and it holds your space through session 8.
$400 due at registration to hold your space, and $400 halfway through the group, at session 5.
This is a private-pay group. Major credit cards and most HSA / FSA cards are accepted.
This group may not be the right fit if…
- You're in active crisis and need more immediate, individual support right now.
- You're in an actively unsafe living situation and need safety planning as the primary focus.
- You're primarily looking for autism or ADHD testing and evaluation.
- You can't commit to all 8 weekly sessions.
If that's you, please still reach out — I can help you find the right next step.
What this group is, and is not.
This is a therapist-facilitated group, led by a licensed clinician — a structured, clinically guided, supportive space to do this work alongside other women who understand.
It is not a substitute for individual therapy or crisis care, and it is not a place for formal testing or evaluations. If you're already in individual therapy, this can work well alongside it.
Questions you might be sitting with.
Do I need to be recently out of an abusive relationship?
Not necessarily. Some participants are actively leaving; others are years out and still processing. What matters is that emotional abuse, control, or feeling invisible in a relationship is central to what you're working through.
Do I need to be autistic or neurodivergent to join?
No. The group is neurodivergent-affirming and especially attuned to autistic and AuDHD women, but it's open to any woman healing from emotional abuse or a controlling relationship.
I think I might be neurodivergent but I'm not diagnosed. Is that okay?
Completely okay. Diagnosis is never required, and you don't have to have it figured out to belong here.
Where is this available?
Via telehealth to women located in Louisiana, Florida, and Virginia — the states where Amanda is licensed.
What's your refund policy?
Registration closes August 21, 2026. Your registration payment is fully refundable if you withdraw on or before the last day of registration. After that date, payments are non-refundable, including if you need to leave the group early.
If you exhaled a little reading this, it may be exactly what you need.
There's no commitment in a consult — just fifteen minutes to talk and find out whether the group is right for you.
Book a Free 15-Min. Fit Consult