Amy Marlow-MaCoy, LPC

Amy Marlow-MaCoy, LPC, is a licensed professional counselor and the author of The Gaslighting Recovery Workbook and The Clinician’s Guide to Treating Adult Children of Narcissists. Amy specializes in treating adult children of narcissistic and emotionally immature parenting. She is known for her expertise on gaslighting and narcissistic abuse and provides training and continuing education credits on these topics for clinicians. As a late-diagnosed ADHDer, Amy is also intimately familiar with the challenges of growing up in a world that wasn’t made for neurodivergent brains.

In addition to her private practice, Amy is the founder of The Courageous Heart Institute, a learning community for clinicians specializing in treating survivors of narcissistic abuse. Amy supports adult survivors of narcissistic abuse and complex developmental and relational trauma with advanced training in multiple trauma treatment models, including IFS, EMDR, and Brainspotting.

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