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recovering from coercive control starts with understanding
Trauma-informed insights, tools, and real-world analysis to help you recognise, process, and recover from high-control groups and relationships

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Was I in a cult or high-control group?

Many people affected by coercive control, high-control groups, or abusive relationships ask this question—sometimes long after leaving.

This rubric helps you explore those experiences in a structured, trauma-informed way, looking at patterns of influence, control, and psychological pressure that can occur in both groups and relationships.

Coercive control is not limited to organised groups. In some cases, domestic violence and intimate partner abuse can function as a “cult of one”, where similar dynamics of isolation, fear, and identity erosion occur within a single relationship.

This is not about labelling your experience. It is a reflective tool to support clarity, validation, and understanding at your own pace.

Services

Recover From Coercive Control offers online counselling and art therapy for victim-survivors of cults, high-control groups, and other relationship that involve coercive control, including domestic violence. 

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Counselling

Individualised one to one counselling from the comfort of your home. 

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Art Therapy

Some experiences are too difficult to put into words, that's were art therapy can help.

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Group Support

Coming Soon: Register your interest to be notified of support groups. 

Disclaimer & Content Warning

The material on Recover From Coercive Control may be distressing or triggering for some readers. Please use your own discretion to decide if the content feels emotionally safe for you to engage with. If you find yourself feeling overwhelmed, you are not alone — support is available. Please see the support resources provided on this site.

All therapeutic or psychological content presented on this website is for general informational and educational purposes only. It is not intended to be a substitute for professional advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the guidance of a qualified mental health professional or medical provider with any personal concerns or questions you may have.

Book an online counselling session through Recover From Coercive Control 

OR

Contact Australian Mental Health Support Contacts:

  • Lifeline: 13 11 14

  • Beyond Blue: 1300 224 636

  • 13 Yarn (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Crisis Support): 13 92 76

Assessments of groups on this website reflect Renée's personal opinions. Individual experiences of any group can vary; therefore, people are encouraged to conduct their own research and form their own opinions. Renée welcomes alternative perspectives that are respectfully shared.  

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