Trauma is not just personal—it is political, structural, and communal. While 70% of adults experience at least one traumatic event in their lifetime, the dominant therapeutic model treats trauma as individual pathology rather than examining the systems that create and perpetuate harm. My approach to trauma and recovery centers collective healing, structural analysis, and community-centered practices that challenge the root causes of trauma while building solidarity for sustained transformation.
Clergy Abuse
Clergy abuse is a violation of body, spirit, and social trust that weaponizes religious authority for coercion and control. Decades of investigations show that abuse is not the aberrant behavior of a few “bad actors” but the predictable outcome of hierarchical institutions that privilege secrecy and reputation over the safety of congregants.
Conversion Therapy Recovery
Conversion therapy — a type of SOGICE or Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Change Efforts — represents one of the most harmful intersections of religious fundamentalism, medical authority, and systemic homophobia/transphobia. As someone who researches SOGICE academically and supports survivors through recovery coaching, I bring both scholarly understanding and community-grounded expertise to this critical area.
Faith Deconstruction
Faith, at its best, offers community, purpose, and a framework for collective care. Yet many religious systems also reproduce hierarchies of race, gender, sexuality, and class that discipline bodies and silence dissent. Faith deconstruction is the intentional, critical un-building of inherited belief structures so that survivors of oppressive theology can reclaim moral authority, ethical imagination, and spiritual autonomy.
High-Control Group Recovery
High-control groups—whether religious cults, corporate cultures, or political movements—use systematic manipulation to maintain power over members. Recovery requires understanding these dynamics as social and political phenomena, not individual weakness or pathology.
My approach draws from critical sociology of organizations and survivor advocacy to help individuals and organizations recognize, interrupt, and heal from high-control dynamics.
Religious Fundamentalism
Religious fundamentalism is not an excess of faith but a political project that weaponizes doctrine to discipline bodies, suppress dissent, and entrench hierarchies. From Christian Nationalism, to “manosphere” theology, to anti-LGBTQ+ theology, fundamentalists share an insistence on absolute textual authority, moral certainty, and social control.
Spiritual Abuse
Spiritual abuse is the deliberate misuse of religious texts, rituals, or positions of authority to control another person or community. Unlike doctrinal disagreement, it involves coercion, manipulation, and exploitation that diminish autonomy and silence dissent. Because deception and shame are central tools, survivors often struggle to name their experience, blaming themselves for “spiritual failure” rather than recognising systemic harm.
Trauma-Informed Practice
Trauma isn’t just individual pathology—it’s often the predictable result of oppressive systems that treat people as disposable. My trauma-informed approach examines both personal healing and the systemic conditions that create trauma in the first place.
Drawing from critical trauma studies and community healing frameworks, I help people move beyond victim-blaming narratives to address the root causes of harm and build genuinely supportive communities.
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