Recover From Coercive Control
Online Counselling with Renée
I offer online counselling for people who have experienced cults, high-control groups, or coercive and controlling relationships.
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This work is deeply personal to me. Across my life, I’ve encountered multi-level marketing environments, high-control expressions within Catholicism, New Age movements, and domestic violence. I also have lived experience as a parent of an adult child who was actively recruited into a cult.
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These experiences, alongside my professional background in education and mental health, have shaped how I understand coercive control—not just in theory, but in the complexity of real life.
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Leaving these environments can be confusing, overwhelming, and deeply isolating. You may be dealing with anxiety, loss of identity, self-doubt, or difficulty trusting yourself and others.
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Counselling offers a safe, steady space to begin making sense of what you’ve been through—at your own pace, and without pressure or judgement.
My Counselling Approach
Talk-based counselling offers a space to explore your thoughts, feelings, and experiences through conversation. It can help you process what has happened, make sense of confusing or conflicting experiences, and begin to rebuild trust in your own thinking.
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Together, we can gently unpack patterns, reflect on key moments, and explore how coercive control may have shaped your sense of self, relationships, or decision-making. This process can support greater clarity, emotional regulation, and a stronger connection to your own values and boundaries.
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Unlike art therapy, which uses creative expression, talk-based counselling focuses on language—finding words for what you’ve been through, and using those words to organise, understand, and integrate your experience.
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There’s no pressure to have everything figured out. We simply start with what feels most present, and work from there.
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