Cult & Cult Recovery Experts
Trauma Recovery Therapy
The links below are meant to provide options and are not endorsements of any particular practitioner.
The Reclamation Collective (religious trauma)
Psychology Today therapist directory
Nonprofits & Other Resources
Tongues Untamed Project (Creative Responses to Religious Trauma)
CRHE (Coalition for Responsible Home Education)
Tears of Eden (supporting survivors of spiritual abuse & religious trauma)
The Vashti Initiative (healing from spiritual trauma)
National Domestic Violence Hotline in the US (Call 1-800-799-7233; Text “START” to 88788)
RAINN (Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network)
SNAP (Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests)
Resources in Canada
Religion & Sexual Abuse Project
Into Account (support for survivors & allies seeking justice, accountability & recovery in Christian contexts)
SOCCHG (Survivors of Coercive Cults and High-Control Groups) in Australia
Books
Nonfiction:
When Religion Hurts You by Dr. Laura Anderson
The Body Keeps the Score by Dr. Bessel van der Kolk
Memoirs:
Educated by Tara Westover
A Well-Trained Wife by Tia Levings
Wiving by Caitlin Myer