Support for Your Religious Trauma Recovery

Courses and Digital Resources for Mental Health Professionals, Advocates, and Survivors

Join Program

Psychoeducational Courses for Survivors

  • Identify Adverse Religious Experiences
  • Learn how Adverse Religious Experiences impact human wellbeing
  • Discover why it's important to distinguish between religious abuse and religious trauma
  • Increase your knowledge about religious trauma

Clinical Resources for Mental Health Professionals

  • Tools for assessing Adverse Religious Experiences
  • Develop a deeper clinical understanding of religious trauma
  • Learn how to adapt trauma-informed modalities to religious trauma

Digital Resouces

  • Assessment tools
  • Treatment planning resources
  • Guides
  • And more!

Courses in this Program:

Religious Trauma and the Nervous System

In this introductory webinar, we explore the impacts of Adverse Religious Experiences and how Religious Trauma exists within the nervous ...

3 Lessons in this Course

Beginner
$49

The Trauma-Skilled Conference 2020

This course includes access to the Recordings and Resources from the Trauma-Skilled Conference.The Ethics of Trauma-sensitive Language in...

9 Lessons in this Course

Religious Trauma & Politics

A Mini Series on Religious Trauma & PoliticsJoin us as we explore the impact of Politics on Religious Trauma through a trauma-informed le...

10 Lessons in this Course

Beginner
$29

Adverse Religious Experiences

Explore the Impacts of Adverse Religious ExperiencesThis introductory course includes a recording of a live clinical training that was fi...

4 Lessons in this Course
$69

Foundations for Treating Religious Trauma

A Clinical Training for Mental Health Professionals With Kathrn Keller, PhD (she/her) and Anna Clark-Miller, LPC (she/her) What's Inc...

12 Lessons in this Course

Lessons in Religious Trauma and the Nervous System:

  1. 1 Religious Trauma and the Nervous System

    Objective: Learn how religious trauma impacts the nervous system.

  2. 2 Religious Cycle of Abuse and Power & Control Wheel

  3. 3 Transcript

    Objective: A transcript of the webinar

Lessons in The Trauma-Skilled Conference 2020:

  1. 1 The Ethics of Trauma-sensitive Language in Practice

    Objective: Analyze ethical issues associated with how language impacts the way trauma is understood, diagnosed, documented, and treated by mental health professionals. Identify personal and professional barriers to adopting trauma-sensitive language into clinical practice. Integrate trauma-sensitive language across the domains of advocacy, assessment, documentation, and treatment of trauma.

  2. 2 How People Change: The Transformational Power of the Body and Relationships

    Objective: Understand recent neuroscience of change from attachment and polyvagal theories

  3. 3 The Complete Trauma-Informed Toolkit (part 1)

  4. 4 The Complete Trauma-Informed Toolkit (part 2)

  5. 5 Trauma-Informed Mindfulness & Yoga (part 1)

  6. 6 Trauma-Informed Mindfulness and Yoga (part 2)

  7. 7 Adverse Religious Experiences (part 1)

  8. 8 Adverse Religious Experiences (Part 2)

  9. 9 Adverse Religious Experiences (bonus)

Lessons in Religious Trauma & Politics:

  1. 1 1. Religious Trauma During an Election Cycle

    Objective: Explore how politics and elections impact religious trauma.

  2. 2 2. Recognizing Triggers

    Objective: Explore how religious trauma shows up during an election cycle.

  3. 3 3. Navigating Triggers

    Objective: Explore strategies for navigating religious trauma triggers.

  4. 4 4. Learning to Trust Yourself

    Objective: Explore strategies for trusting yourself instead of the group.

  5. 5 5. Navigating Relationships

    Objective: Explore strategies for navigating politically charged relationships

  6. 6 6. Embodied Boundaries

    Objective: Explore strategies for setting and maintaining embodied boundaries.

  7. 7 7. Religious Trauma & Race

    Objective: Explore the Intersection of Religious Trauma, Race, and Politics

  8. 8 8. #MeToo, #ChurchToo, and Sexual Violence

    Objective: Exploring the impact of religion and politics on sexual violence

  9. 9 9. Religious Trauma and Politics: A Match Made in Heaven?

    Objective: Explore the history of the intentional relationship between religion and politics

  10. 10 10. LGBTQ+, Religious Trauma, and Politics

    Objective: Explore the impact of religion and politics on the LGBTQ+ Community

Lessons in Adverse Religious Experiences:

  1. 1 Workshop (part 1)

  2. 2 Workshop (part 2)

  3. 3 Workshop (bonus)

  4. 4 [Bonus] The Ethics of Trauma-sensitive Language in Practice

    Objective: Analyze ethical issues associated with how language impacts the way trauma is understood, diagnosed, documented, and treated by mental health professionals. Identify personal and professional barriers to adopting trauma-sensitive language into clinical practice. Integrate trauma-sensitive language across the domains of advocacy, assessment, documentation, and treatment of trauma.

Lessons in Foundations for Treating Religious Trauma:

  1. 1 Start Here - FTRT Training

  2. 2 Video - FTRT

  3. 3 Video with Subtitles - FTRT

  4. 4 Video with Transcript - FTRT

  5. 5 Audio with Transcript - FTRT

  6. 6 Handout - FTRT

  7. 7 Slides - FTRT

  8. 8 Transcript - FTRT

  9. 9 Additional Resources - FTRT

  10. 10 Q&A Responses - FTRT

  11. 11 Evaluation - FTRT

  12. 12 Contact Information - FTRT

About Religious Trauma Institute

avatar-profile
The Religious Trauma Institute is developing a space for mental health clinicians, advocates, researchers, and survivors to expand the conversation about Adverse Religious Experiences and to create trauma-informed resources for survivors of religious trauma.
Join Program