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Consultation and Speaking

You’ve got questions, and I’ve got context.

I work with writers, researchers, organisations and event organisers who want to understand religious trauma, cults and high-control groups properly.

I bring clinical knowledge, years of client work and my own lived experience, in plain language.

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Religious Trauma

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Cult Recovery

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Conversion Practices

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Purity Culture

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Coercive Control

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Religious Trauma ✳︎ Cult Recovery ✳︎ Conversion Practices ✳︎ Purity Culture ✳︎ Coercive Control ✳︎

Two ways to work with me

Consultation

One-on-one sessions focused on your project, whether that’s a book, thesis, documentary, training or team practice.

Speaking

Engaging and informative talks, workshops, training and podcast coversations, tailored to your audience.

Who I work with

  • Writers and journalists. Getting religious harm and high-control groups right on the page.

  • Students and researchers. Theses, studies, surveys and coursework.

  • Documentary and podcast makers. Background, accuracy checks and on-air interviews.

  • Organisations and teams. Services, workplaces and community groups supporting people affected by religious or cultic harm.

  • Conference and event organisers. Keynotes, workshops and panels.

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Areas of Expertise

  • Religious trauma and spiritual abuse

  • Cults, high-control groups and coercive control, religious and non-religious

  • Faith deconstruction and rebuilding identity

  • Leaving a group and what recovery looks like

  • Purity culture and conversion practices

  • Queer and poly experiences of spiritual harm

  • Talking about these topics without retraumatising people

  • Making services and spaces safer for people who have left high-control groups

Why work with me

Hear some of my past podcast appearances here.

Lived experience.

I’ve left a high-control faith community myself, so I understand this from the inside as well as the outside.

Clinical knowledge.

I work with survivors every week and can explain the psychology in plain language.

Queer and poly-informed.

I know how sexuality, gender and relationship diversity shape people’s experiences of religious harm.

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How it works

Every project is different, so I don’t have a set package. Send me a message about what you’re working on, and we’ll work out the format, length and cost together.

It helps to include:

  • What your project or event is

  • What you’re hoping to get out of working with me

  • Any dates or deadlines

  • Your budget, if you have one

Consultations and talks can happen online, or in person, with travel by arrangement.

Working on something? Let’s talk.