Jacqui Nelson, MA, LMHC (She/Her)

Licensed Mental Health Therapist & Religious Trauma Survivor

When I was in my early 20’s, I attended a discipleship program at my church called The Master’s Commission. While it was only a year long program, I ended up staying for five long years.

After I left that program I felt disoriented, damaged, and underprepared for what was next in my life. A couple of years later things took a turn and I was suddenly asked to leave my church. It was a horribly devastating moment and I didn’t know how to make sense of it. I couldn’t understand how they could call me “part of the family” and the next minute no longer be part of that family.

I decided that I needed some help sorting through the grief, hurt, and anger and sought out a therapist. It was that therapist who first named for me that what I had experienced was called spiritual abuse.

Naming the harm that occurred to me in that tiny therapy room was one of the most profound moments of my life, and is, in part, what led me to the work I do now.

My own journey through religious trauma is what guides me in doing solid and informed trauma work for a variety of issues. My goal is to walk through those traumatic spaces in your story with you, and help you get to the other side.