Group Supervision
Supervision That Understands The Work
Working with survivors of religious trauma, cults, and high-control groups is specialist work. It brings with it specific clinical challenges, ethical complexities, and presentations that do not always fit neatly into standard supervision frameworks. Finding a supervisor or consultation space that genuinely understands this territory, not just trauma broadly but the particular landscape of coercive control, thought reform, spiritual abuse, and cult recovery, can be difficult.
RTC's Group Supervision sessions are designed to fill that gap.
Led by Sam and Elise, these sessions bring practitioners together around created clinical case studies to explore the specific challenges that arise when working with this client population. Whether you are encountering these presentations regularly or navigating them for the first time, this is a space to think carefully, ask honestly, and leave with greater clarity and confidence in your work.
Who Is Leading These Sessions
These sessions are co-facilitated by both of RTC's Co-Directors, each bringing a distinct but complementary role.
Samantha Sellers is a qualified clinical supervisor with specialist expertise in religious trauma, cult recovery, and coercive control. Sam brings supervisory experience and a deep understanding of the relational and ethical dimensions of working in this space.
Elise Heerde in the role of consultant, bringing her mental health expertise, lived experience, and specialist knowledge of high-control group dynamics to the case discussion.
Together, Sam and Elise create a facilitation dynamic that is both clinically grounded and practically useful, holding space for nuanced discussion without losing sight of the real work happening in practitioners' consulting rooms.
How It Works
Each Group Supervision session runs for 90 minutes and is relevant to religious trauma or cult recovery practice.
Practitioners are invited to bring their own deidentified client presentations to the group; this is where the session begins. If no one brings a case, Sam and Elise will introduce a carefully constructed composite scenario designed to reflect the kinds of presentations you're likely to encounter in your own work. Either way, the material grounds the discussion in real clinical territory.
The case; whether yours or ours serves as a springboard. Practitioners in the group are invited to engage, ask questions, share their clinical thinking, and explore different approaches and frameworks together. This is not a lecture. It is a collaborative forum where the intelligence and experience in the room is part of what makes it useful.
Practical Details
Format: 90 minutes online
Group size: Minimum 6 practitioners per session
Who it is for: Any practitioner working in or adjacent to religious trauma, cult recovery, or coercive control. No minimum experience level required.
Location: Online - available to practitioners based in Australia (registration purposes)
Cost: $100 per session
Please register your interest below and we will be in touch when sessions are scheduled.
Group Supervision sessions run on demand. Sessions will be scheduled once sufficient interest has been registered. As interest builds, sessions will be scheduled and confirmed, and you will be the first to know.