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Reclamation Collective is committed to holding space for folks navigating Religious Trauma and Adverse Religious Experiences, including themes of Religious Trauma, Deconstruction, Deconversion, and Spiritual Abuse. This work is informed by our many partnerships and collaborations with trauma-informed clinicians, community leaders, and activists who validate the wide spectrum of experiences and symptoms that may present following an Adverse Religious Experience. We aspire to honor diversity of thought and validate the countless paths that lead to healing, inner peace, and relational harmony through deconstruction and reclamation.
Whether you are experiencing a wave of anger or resentment towards your faith of origin or you are in the process of trying to reclaim or reconstruct within a faith context, your experience is valid.
We serve the community of survivors who have experienced abuse in the evangelical community. While many of our board members identify as Christian, we are not a faith-based organization claiming affiliation with any doctrine, denomination, or theological viewpoint.
We acknowledge each person is on a personal journey. We are all at different places with our faith, church, God, etc. We try to reflect that in our resources and, at the same time, allow our community to be where they are.
For example, someone might describe their relationship with Jesus as more vibrant and deeper than ever. Someone else might not be sure if God is real, or they might not want anything to do with God. We are about allowing both avenues in either space (and anywhere in between).
The Religious Trauma Institute was co-founded by Dr. Laura Anderson, and Brian Peck, LCSW, in collaboration with a growing community of clinicians who are passionate about bringing a trauma-informed approach to religious trauma.
We’re excited to offer mental health professionals a series of clinical trainings, consultation groups, assessment tools, treatment resources, and a supportive professional community.
This site's primary mission is to help people who have been spiritually abused. The site also provides resources and training for individuals and organizations, such as churches, whom the spiritual abused may call upon for assistance.
Although spiritual abuse occurs in all religious traditions, most people seeking information or assistance related to spiritual abuse come out of groups or situations that are at least ostensibly Christian. Therefore, many of this site's resources have a Christian flavor. Other resources on the site, however, are useful to nonChristians.