Religious Trauma Therapy

Religious Trauma or Church Hurt

Religious trauma happens when spiritual teachings, leaders, or communities create fear, shame, or a loss of personal freedom. The trauma experience can show up as anxiety, guilt, confusion about your identity, or feeling like you’re never “enough”. Many people also struggle with decision-making, boundaries, or trusting themselves after years of being told what to believe.

In therapy, we make space for you to explore what you were taught, what still lingers, and who you’re becoming outside of those old expectations.

Faith Deconstruction

Faith deconstruction is the process of evaluating what you believe and why. It’s taking inventory of how particular theologies dictated who you were as a person, looks at how your relationship with God was defined, and whether those ideas still hold up today.

Together we talk about doubt, mystery, meaning making, and belief. You can ask questions you’ve been afraid to ask, and take the risk to explore what faith means to you.

Identity Reconstruction

When you’ve been in a faith system that gave you a defined sense of who you should be, you may have tried to contort yourself into someone you believed your leadership or God wanted you to be. You may have tried really hard to be “good”, to do all the right things, and to please God. You may have been called “a leader” or “a world-changer” and living up to that was an enormous task. It often isn’t enough. The harder you try, the more you lose yourself.

Identity reconstruction begins by allowing you to take up space to shed the narratives that have kept you from yourself, and to help you lean into your authentic self.

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