Religious Trauma Therapy in Winston-Salem, NC

Harmful experiences in spiritual settings can have a significant impact on mental health. Here you will find a compassionate, non-judgmental space to process painful experiences at church, explore your beliefs and values, and work toward feeling whole again.

Religious trauma can happen in an instance or develop over a lifetime.

Traumatizing spiritual experiences often involve fear-based teachings about damnation and sinfulness, moral condemnation, social shunning, abuse of authority, guilt and manipulation, LGBTQ+ rejection and anti-gay messaging, purity culture and sexual shaming, among other abuses. Ongoing mistreatment in spiritual settings often increases feelings of internal discord until it is too much to bear. If you are not sure where to turn for support, this is a space to receive secular and LGBTQ+ affirming help without an agenda.