Religious Trauma & Cults

Acknowledgement of Country

The team at Religious Trauma & Cults acknowledge the traditional owners of the land we work on, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples whose Elders and forebears have been custodians of lands, waters and seas. We are grateful for their stewardship of culture and country and pay our respects to all Indigenous people who engage with our work across the land now called Australia.

Statement of Inclusion & Diversity

The team at Religious Trauma & Cults is all about embracing diversity!

That means celebrating and affirming every LGBTQIA+ identity and showing love and respect for everyone's abilities, cultures, faiths, and bodies. Everyone's unique journey is valued and welcomed with open arms.

Teaching girls that their bodies are responsible for others' sins is not modesty, it’s shame induction.

The modesty doctrine that teaches women and girls must dress and present themselves in ways that prevent men from experiencing sexual tempt

🌿 Meet Jane Kennedy (she/her), Counsellor & Clinical Supervisor 🌿

Jane spent years in church ministry and international humanitarian work before her own faith unravelled and took her sense of self with it. That experience sits at the centre of

We’ve been working on this for 18months, and we’re finally ready to tell you more about it.

Our Cult Recovery Practitioner Training launches in March 2027. It’s 21 self-paced sessions for practitioners working with people who were

Purity culture is one of those things that’s hard to explain to people who weren’t in it, and instantly recognisable to people who were.

At its simplest, it’s a set of teachings about sex, bodies and relationships that spread throu

You can build a community that chooses you. Not because of what you believe, but because of who you are.

Many survivors of religious trauma lost relationships, biological family and chosen community, when they left their group. The shunning, the wit

Cult Recovery Training