Working Therapeutically with Victims of Narcissistic Abuse, with Pam Potter

Wednesday 13 January 2027

7.30-9.30pm

on Zoom

Free to HACP members

£10 to non-members – payable in advance. Please email info@hacp.co.uk at least a week beforehand

Zoom link will be available nearer the time. You will be able to get it from your HACP MemberMojo membership page

About Pam

Pam is a fully qualified Transactional Analyst (CTA) and psychotherapist (MSc), with extensive experience in private practice. Since 2016, she has worked as a counsellor and psychotherapist from her home in Gosport, supporting clients with warmth and compassion.

Until 2023, Pam also taught Transactional Analysis (TA) theory and professional practice on the Counselling Foundation Degree course at Peter Symonds HE College, Winchester. She continues to maintain a close relationship with the college, contributing on an ad hoc basis.

Developing her Specialism: Victims of Narcissistic Abuse

Since 2020, Pam has developed a particular interest in working therapeutically with people who identify as victims of narcissistic abuse, including those who have experienced it within intimate partner relationships and adult children of narcissistic parents. This area of work has also been informed by her own experiences in abusive relationships.

As her clinical experience and research developed, Pam became increasingly aware that much of the existing literature appeared to focus on understanding the perpetrator, rather than the person affected by the abuse. This led her to explore, through the framework of Transactional Analysis, the intrapsychic and interpersonal reality of those who may be vulnerable to this form of abuse.

Pam’s work seeks to deepen understanding of how these experiences can challenge a person’s sense of self, relationships and patterns of relating. She looks at how clients may present within the therapeutic relationship and, importantly, what they may need from a therapist to support meaningful recovery and change.

Pam sees this work as an ongoing and evolving area of clinical enquiry and continues to develop her research, thinking and therapeutic insights. Pam is passionate about sharing this learning with fellow therapists who are interested in this field, with the aim of ensuring that people affected by narcissistic abuse receive sensitive, informed and effective therapeutic support.