I am glad that I haven't run into this. I wonder if it depends on the area of their expertise. The one I'm seeing now has focused most of her career on recovery from sexual assault. She neither over-validates or invalidates. But that's just one. All the others did not react much at all, I think as a way to keep the stress down, but it ended up just feeling dismissive.

Partless, I wonder if you can find a therapist with experience in emotional abuse? I mean, maybe they all say they treat that, but are there any in your area who really get it? Of all the things I've been through, the emotional abuse was by far the worst and longest lasting, yet people like to focus on the physical for some reason. I think they have it backward.