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.

🌿 Meet Dr Liz Jervis, Psychologist 🌿

With 13+ years of clinical experience, and a background spanning public mental health, specialist PTSD services, and international trauma work, Liz brings depth to complex presentations. She works with individu

There's a narrative that follows survivors of high-control environments; sometimes from outside, sometimes from within recovery spaces themselves. That speaking out is the natural next step. That advocacy is where your experience becomes meaningful.

Advocacy is powerful. It also requires care, especially when trauma is involved.

There's a particular kind of pressure that can build in recovery communities: the sense that sharing publicly is a marker of how far you've come. That speaking out is t

Trauma bonding is one of the most misunderstood dynamics in recovery from high-control environments and one of the most important to understand.

It describes the powerful emotional attachment that forms when cycles of harm and relief repeat over tim

Thought-stopping is a real psychological mechanism, and it doesn't disappear just because you leave a high-control group. 🧠

In high-control environments, members are often taught to interrupt or suppress thoughts that might challenge the group's wo

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