Are there any cults in Australia?

Yes, over 3000. See listings for more details.

How do I recover from coercive control?

Recovery from coercive control often involves rebuilding trust in yourself, understanding manipulation dynamics, processing trauma, restoring autonomy, and reconnecting with your own identity, emotions, and values.

Can coercive control cause trauma symptoms?

Yes. Coercive control can contribute to anxiety, hypervigilance, emotional confusion, dissociation, shame, identity disturbance, nervous system dysregulation, and symptoms associated with trauma.

What is cult recovery counselling?

Cult recovery counselling provides trauma-informed support for people recovering from high-control groups, psychological manipulation, spiritual abuse, identity disruption, and coercive environments.

Why is leaving a controlling relationship so difficult?

Controlling relationships often involve fear, trauma bonding, dependency, identity erosion, intermittent reinforcement, and emotional conditioning that can make leaving psychologically and emotionally complex.

Can therapy help with religious trauma?

Therapy can support recovery from religious trauma by helping individuals process fear, shame, spiritual confusion, identity loss, and the emotional impact of harmful belief systems or high-control environments.

If you're questioning what you went through, you're not alone

Trauma-informed insights, tools, and real-world analysis to help you recognise, process, and recover from high-control groups and relationships

Cult Recovery

Need Support Recovering From Coercive Control?

Renée offers online counselling and art therapy for victim-survivors of cults, high-control groups, and other relationships that involve coercive control, including domestic violence.

Counselling

Individualised one to one counselling from the comfort of your home.

Art Therapy

Some experiences are too difficult to put into words, that's where art therapy can help.

Group Support

About Renée

Was I In A High-Control group?

Many people affected by coercive control, high-control groups, or abusive relationships ask this question—sometimes long after leaving.

This rubric helps you explore those experiences in a structured, trauma-informed way, looking at patterns of influence, control, and psychological pressure that can occur in both groups and relationships.

Coercive control is not limited to organised groups. In some cases, domestic violence and intimate partner abuse can function as a “cult of one”, where similar dynamics of isolation, fear, and identity erosion occur within a single relationship.

This is not about labelling your experience. It is a reflective tool to support clarity, validation, and understanding at your own pace.

How to Spot a Cult

How many groups in Australia?

Browse our database of high-control groups, search groups by category, and explore organisations associated with coercive control, cultic dynamics, and high-control systems. New groups added regularly.

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