Religious & Spiritual Trauma
Faith and spiritual community can be sources of deep meaning, but they can also be places where control, shame, fear, or manipulation cause real harm. If you've experienced religious or spiritual abuse, you may be left questioning your beliefs, your identity, or your worth. Untangling that can feel isolating and complicated.
You've experienced control, shame, or manipulation within a religious or spiritual context
You feel conflicted, guilty, or lost around faith, identity, or belief
You're grieving a community, relationship, or belief system you had to leave
You want to make sense of your experience
What does therapy for
religious & spiritual trauma look like?
Creating a nonjudgmental space to process your experience
Using EMDR to process specific experiences that still feel disturbing
Untangling shame, fear, or guilt from your sense of self-worth
Exploring your relationship to faith and identifying your beliefs