Gaslighting Recovery For Women by Amelia Kelley PhD

About the book: Gaslighting Recovery For Women (2023) is a complete gaslighting recovery guide for women to regain control and reclaim their lives.

Gaslighting is one of the most destructive forms of emotional abuse that women can experience, causing them to distrust their own realities and perceptions and even believe they have a mental illness. In Gaslighting Recovery for Women, trauma-informed therapist Amelia Kelley, PhD, offers evidence-based therapy and tools to help women detect and protect themselves from manipulation that can occur in all key areas of life—family, intimate relationships, work, academia, and healthcare. Her guided approach to healing from abuse helps survivors establish a greater sense of self-worth, self-esteem, and empowerment. 

This book features: 

• A THREE-PART RECOVERY PROGRAM designed for understanding gaslighting, healing from trauma, and reclaiming your reality.

• REAL-LIFE COVERT GASLIGHTING CASES from all aspects of a woman’s life that help validate realities and perceptions that have been otherwise distorted by a gaslighter.   

• ACCESSIBLE THERAPY EXERCISES, ACTIVITIES, AND TECHNIQUES rooted in DBT (dialectical behavioral therapy), mindfulness, and self-love, among others, to facilitate personal healing from past traumas and guide women to embrace who they truly are.  

• SIGNS OF MENTAL MANIPULATION FOR PREVENTION AND RECOVERY that enable women to be self-aware and fully trust their instincts when they sense something is wrong.

About the author: Amelia Kelley PhD is an integrative, trauma-informed therapist with 20 years of experience as an art therapist and certified meditation and yoga instructor. She is trained in EMDR, hypnotherapy, somatic thera­pies, Internal Family Systems (IFS), and Brainspotting. She is a trainer, podcaster, and writer in the “science-help” field, focusing on motivation, women’s issues, empowering survivors of abuse and relationship trauma, Highly Sensitive Persons, healthy living, and adult ADHD.

Dr Kelley is an adjunct professor of counseling at Yorkville University and a nationally recognized relationship expert featured on the SiriusXM Doctor Radio program The Psychiatry Show, exploring the impact of gaslighting on our society. She is a coach and trainer for the SAS Work/Life Program and resident trainer for the Art Therapy Institute of North Carolina. Her private practice is part of the Traumatic Stress Research Consortium at the Kinsey Institute. She is a co-author of What I Wish I Knew: Surviving and Thriving After an Abusive Relationship and a regular contributing writer for the world’s largest blog for HSPs, The Highly Sensitive Refuge. Her work has been featured in Teen Vogue, Scary Mommy, Yahoo! News, Well+Good, and Insider.

Follow her on Instagram @drameliakelley or visit ameliakelley.com.