healing from religious trauma
Religious trauma can result when an individual feels coerced to think, act, or believe in ways that cause pain and reduce capacity for choice and freedom. A common response to adverse religious experience is disconnection from self, or the parts of self that do not easily fit within a religious or spiritual structure. This can include pleasure, sexuality, intuition, creative expression, individuality, and personal values. You may feel like a fish out of water, not fully at home or ease within yourself and with others.
Therapy allows you to explore what is needed to establish and maintain safe connection with self and others, providing a blueprint for identifying the root of patterns that have not been working for you, attending to needs that have been unmet and building relationships that are secure.