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Emotional Abuse Recovery Group, Cohort 2 starts Wednesday, October 21, 2026. It meets Wednesdays from 4:30–6:00 PM CT / 5:30–7:00 PM ET for 8 telehealth sessions, skips November 25, and ends December 16. The group is for women 21+ in Louisiana, Florida, or Virginia and is capped at 6 members. Registration closes October 14. Investment is $1,000, or $900 paid in full, or two payments of $500. Start with a free 15-minute consultation: http://amandamorristherapy.com/emotional-abuse-group

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What Happens in an Online Emotional Abuse Recovery Group — Amanda Morris, MSW, LCSW-BACS What actually happens in an emotional abuse recovery group, and do you have to share your story? Online for women in Louisiana, Florida, and Virginia.

In 2000-2001 I was a Social Work intern at the LSU Student Health Center, and I spent most of that year privately certain that everyone else had been handed a manual I never received.

On Wednesday I was back in that same building, at the front of the room this time, teaching this year's counseling interns about late-diagnosed autistic women. I didn't find out I was autistic until I was 46, and none of my supervisors back then had any idea either, which isn't a criticism of them so much as the entire point of the talk.

What I wanted those interns to understand is the same thing I'd want you to know if you've spent thirty years collecting labels that never quite fit.

For many late-diagnosed autistic women, the anxiety diagnosis, the recurrent depression, the eating disorder, the bipolar diagnosis, Borderline Personality Disorder, or OCD may have been part of the explanation, or completely wrong. I’ve collected a few myself: GAD, MDD, PTSD, ADHD.

Then there's the masking, which is what keeps the full picture out of focus, or worse, invisible. You hide your sensory issues and your stims. You rehearse conversations in the car. You script the phone call before you make it, you hold yourself together for the precise fifty minutes somebody is watching, and then you go home and sleep or doom-scroll for hours, wondering why you're so exhausted when you didn't really "do" anything. You perform competence so convincingly that nobody can see what it does to you, and after a while, you may not see it either until you burn out.

So the thing I most wanted those interns to leave with is that identification isn't the prerequisite for the help. You can adapt the work you do in therapy for a woman who has no diagnosis, no label and no certainty about any of it, and you can start doing it in the next session.

Thank you to the team at LSU Mental Health Services for having me back. My 24 year-old intern self couldn't have imagined coming back as a "seasoned" professional to teach interns who were born right around the time I was on the other side of the podium in that very same room.

If you're a clinician with someone on your caseload you can't quite figure out, I'm glad to be a consult call. And if you read this and recognized yourself, I offer a free 15-minute consultation you can book online. I'm in Baton Rouge in person and I see clients by telehealth across Louisiana, Florida and Virginia. I screen for autism, I don't diagnose it, but I'm happy to refer you to some great clinicians who do.

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Final call: the Unmasking Group has a few spots left, and registration closes tomorrow.

If you're a late-identified autistic or neurodivergent woman who is worn out from holding it all together, this is a small, closed online space to stop performing for a while, alongside women who already understand.

Ten weeks, Thursdays, starting September 10. Online, capped at 8 women, for Louisiana, Florida, and Virginia. No forced sharing, no pressure to have your camera on or the right words. You don't need a diagnosis to belong here.

Every woman starts with a free 15-minute consult, so there's nothing to commit to before it feels right. If you've been on the fence, this is the last window before this cohort begins.

For more info and to book your consult before registration closes tomorrow:

Unmasking Group for Autistic & AuDHD Women in Louisiana Join the Unmasking Therapy Group for late-identified autistic/ADHD women starting on Sept. 10, 2026, to find who you truly are in a safe, supportive space.

You’ve been holding it all together for a very long time. 🌿

If you spend your days reading the room, scripting small talk, swallowing sensory overwhelm, and adjusting yourself to fit in... you know how deeply exhausting masking can be.

Starting September 10, I’m hosting the Unmasking Therapy Group—a small, closed 10-week virtual group for Autistic and AuDHD women ready to unmask, on their own terms, and find out who’s been underneath it all along.

This isn't a drop-in support group. It’s a dedicated, consistent 10-week space where the same small group of women meet each week to build real safety, process burnout, and connect without the pressure to perform.

✨ What to expect:

Low-pressure environment (camera-optional & text-chat friendly)

Focus on sensory recovery, unmasking, and releasing shame

Open to both formally diagnosed AND self-identified women

A space where you don't have to translate or explain yourself

🗓 When: Thursdays starting Sept 10 | 3:00 PM CT / 4:00 PM ET

💻 Where: HIPAA-Secure Video (Open to residents of Louisiana, Florida, & Virginia)

👥 Space: Strictly limited to 8 women

NOW ENROLLING — Registration closes September 4.

If you felt a little exhale reading this, tap the link below to learn more and book a free, no-pressure 15-minute consult call to see if it's the right fit for you:

👉 amandamorristherapy.com/unmasking-group-autistic-women

Unmasking Group starts Sept. 10. Now enrolling.

Online Group Therapy for Late-Identified Autistic Women — Amanda Morris, MSW, LCSW-BACS For late-identified autistic and AuDHD women, healing often happens fastest alongside others who get it. See how online group therapy helps you stop masking.

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A little update on the different ways we can work together right now, in case one of them is what you have been looking for.

Individual therapy. One-on-one sessions for autistic, AuDHD, and neurodivergent women (21+) healing from emotional abuse, relational trauma, anxiety, and burnout. I now offer a sliding scale so cost is less of a barrier, with self-select tiers at $155, $205, and $250 per session. No proof of income, no gatekeeping.

Longer sessions when you need them. For the weeks when 55 minutes is not quite enough room to do the work, 90-minute extended sessions are now available for individual clients.

The Untangling Intensive. A focused one-on-one half-day to work through emotional abuse and the exhaustion of masking, paced to your nervous system, for women who want meaningful work without an open-ended weekly commitment.

The Unmasking Group. A new 10-week online group for autistic and AuDHD women who are tired of masking, starting August 6.

The Emotional Abuse Recovery Group. A separate therapist-led 8-week online group for women healing from an emotionally abusive or controlling relationship. Next cohort starts Aug. 28.

All of this is online for women in Louisiana, Florida, and Virginia, and in person in the Baton Rouge area.

If you are not sure which one fits, that is exactly what the free 20-minute consult is for. We can talk it through, with no pressure either way: https://kristen-morris.clientsecure.me