Responding & Healing

Healing After Gaslighting: Compassionate Steps to Rebuild Your Strength — Support in Laval

Responding & Healing

Responding to Gaslighting & Beginning the Path Toward Resolution

Recognizing gaslighting is important, but knowing how to respond is essential for healing. Whether the manipulation occurs in a romantic relationship, family system, friendship, or workplace, there are meaningful steps you can take toward clarity and safety.
At Resolutions Therapy Clinic in Laval, our clinicians guide clients through this recovery process every day.

  1. Document Your Experiences

Keep notes, screenshots, or a personal journal. This helps you trust your own perception again—especially when confusion has been created intentionally.

  1. Set Clear Boundaries

Boundaries protect your emotional and mental well-being. In Laval counselling sessions, we help clients identify and maintain healthy boundaries that reduce vulnerability to manipulation.

  1. Reach Out to Your Community

Talk to trusted friends, family, or colleagues. Connection counters isolation—one of the gaslighter’s most powerful tools.

  1. Prioritize Your Self-Care

Your healing depends on reconnecting with activities that ground you:

  • Journaling
  • Exercise
  • Creative outlets
  • Mindfulness
  • Time with supportive people

These practices reinforce your value and help stabilize your nervous system.

  1. Seek Professional Support

A trained professional can help you break the cycle, rebuild confidence, and understand the emotional impact of manipulation.
If you feel confused, controlled, or unsure whether what you’re experiencing is gaslighting, our therapists at Resolutions Therapy Clinic in Laval can help.

If You’re Ready to Reach Out, We’re Here to Answer

Booking your first appointment with us is simple.
Just call or text:
Nancy Chernoff – 514-953-8287

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HELENE ZYLBERSZAC
DIRECTOR
PSYCHOTHERAPIST, MSW, PSW

Helene Zylberszac, director of Resolutions Therapy Center, is a psychotherapist for individuals, couples and families. She brings a wealth of experience from over twenty-five years of work in the public and private sectors. Helene is a member of the Ordre des Travailleurs Sociaux du Québec, and holds a psychotherapy license issued by the Ordre des psychologues. She completed a bachelor’s degree in industrial relations, a psychotherapy license and a master’s degree in social work.

Helene has worked at youth protection, various women’s shelters and 10 years for the CLSC Rene Cassin.  Presently, she works collaboratively with family physicians, fertility clinics, and ASD clinics. Her numerous contacts allow her to have a global overview of issues such as anxiety, depression, self-esteem and adult ASD (autism spectrum disorder). With a warm and collaborative strength based approach in her treatment, Helene uses cognitive behavioral therapy, including solutions focused therapy.

Helene Zylberszac is capable of effectively intervening with individuals, couples and families while empowering them to regain control over their lives.

Born and raised in Montreal, Helene is a devoted mother, wife and fur mama. 
In her spare time Helene is an avid tennis player and meditation advocate.

To book an appointment with Helene call 514-953-8287