LPC, LMFT, General Hours for Social Workers

• $60

• IN-PERSON 3 CE

People who have been subjected to exploitation, isolation and thought control in a cult and who work up the courage to leave, do so with many psychological and emotional wounds. Many of them seek out therapy to help recover from the damaging after-effects. Unfortunately, cult victims often report that therapists just do not seem to 'get' all that they endured in the cult, and all the challenges they face once out of the cult. In fact, many cult victims abandon therapy, feeling that their therapist just did not understand the the degree to which they had been controlled, repressed, exploited and abused. Many recount that they felt their experience seemed to be discounted as something they just needed to put behind them. In this workshop, we will discuss the cults currently in existence along with a few from the past. We will also discuss best practices when working with cult survivors. Several video vignettes will be shared.