Carol A. Lambert MSW, LICSW
From over 30 years of clinical experience, I bring a compassionate and interactive approach to my psychotherapy practice with women and men addressing the challenges that interfere with living the life they’d like to live. As co-founder and facilitator of recovery groups for women with controlling partners, I’m committed to raising awareness about psychological abuse in intimate relationships—the subtle coercive behaviors that are hard to identify yet deeply harmful. Fulfilling a desire to help women everywhere, my evidence-based recovery process is now available in a self-help book, 'Women with Controlling Partners: Taking Back Your Life from a Manipulative or Abusive Partner.'
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How Abusers Use Your Empathy to Keep You Silent: 8 Common Tactics
Empathy is a beautiful quality and is always seen as a strength in relationships. The ability to understand another person’s feelings, to care about...
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How Abusers Use Loyalty Tests to Make You Prove Your Devotion
Loyalty tests are a common feature of coercive and controlling relationships. They often appear as real or hypothetical questions that place you in a...
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Emotional Withholding: When Affection Becomes a Tool of Control
Abusive partners rely on many strategies to maintain power, and emotional withholding is one of the most harmful. It involves deliberately pulling back warmth,...
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The Art of Boundaries: Building the Structure You Need to Thrive
I’m delighted to share this guest piece by Rayann Gordon on the art of rebuilding boundaries after abuse. Rayann is currently completing an MSc...
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False Accusations and Control: How Abuse Turns Innocence Into Guilt
Accusations, especially those that are false or unfounded, are a hallmark of an abusive relationship. That’s mostly because hurling accusations at a partner allows...
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10 Things Abusers Do When They Feel They Are Losing Control
Abusive behaviour grows out of a mindset that treats another person as territory rather than as an equal. Control becomes the organising principle, and...
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When Abuse Rewrites Your Sense of Self: Marcella’s Story
Marcella’s experience of abuse did not begin with violence. It started the way so many abusive relationships do, with small insults, a gradual erosion...
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10 Subtle Ways Abusers Disguise Control as Care
Control rarely announces itself as control. It usually arrives dressed up as concern, loyalty, sacrifice, and thoughtful attention. A partner might present rules as...
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