Religious trauma doesn’t show up neatly.
- It’s not just about belief systems or doctrine.
- It lives in the body.
- It shapes identity.
- It impacts attachment, sexuality, shame, authority, consent, rest, and safety.
And for LGBTQIA+ people, those impacts are often amplified, layered, and misunderstood even in well-intentioned therapeutic spaces.
This bundled training brings together Understanding Religious Trauma and Religious Trauma & The LGBTQIA+ Community because these conversations don’t sit in separate boxes in real life and they shouldn’t in clinical practice either.
This is about building context, depth, and confidence so you’re not just responding to symptoms, but actually understanding what you’re seeing.
Why These Two Trainings Belong Together
You can understand religious trauma without understanding queerness but your framework will have gaps.
You can understand LGBTQIA+ experiences without understanding religious trauma but you’ll miss why certain patterns feel so entrenched, confusing, or contradictory.
When you bundle these trainings, you’re not just getting more content. You’re getting a more accurate lens.
Together, these trainings explore:
- How high-control religious systems shape identity, nervous systems, and self-trust
- Why shame, fear, compliance, and hypervigilance make sense in context
- How queerness is not just “suppressed” but often systematically disconnected through theology, conversion ideology, and information control
- Why some people come out later in life and why that doesn’t mean queerness was a “choice” or something they were avoiding
- How trauma responses can look like ambivalence, confusion, compliance, or even defence of harmful systems
- What safety actually looks like for clients who’ve been taught their bodies, desires, or identities are dangerous
This bundle supports you to move beyond surface-level affirmation and into trauma-informed, identity-aware, embodied practice.
What You’ll Learn Across the Bundle
Understanding Religious Trauma
This training lays the foundation. We explore religious trauma as a contextual injury not a pathology and not a personal failure.
You’ll gain a clear understanding of:
- High-control and high-demand religious systems
- Thought control, information control, obedience, and submission frameworks
- Why leaving isn’t “just leaving” and why grief, fear, and fragmentation are common
- How trauma responses often look like loyalty, minimisation, self-blame, or shame
- The long-term impacts on nervous system regulation, identity, and relational safety
This training helps you stop asking “why won’t they just…?”
And start understanding “what did they have to survive?”
Religious Trauma & The LGBTQIA+ Community
This training deepens the work; especially where identity and harm intersect. It centres the voices and experiences of queer people harmed within religious systems, while also speaking to the broader cultural narratives that still frame queerness as a “choice”.
We explore:
- How queerness is shaped, suppressed, or delayed through indoctrination rather than conscious denial
- Why some people genuinely don’t know they’re queer until later and why that revelation can be destabilising
- Conversion ideology and the psychological impact of being taught your identity is sinful, broken, or dangerous
- The unique layers of shame, fear, and bodily disconnection queer survivors carry
- How language, assumptions, and therapeutic framing can unintentionally replicate harm
This training is not about being “more inclusive”. It’s about being more accurate, safer, and more attuned.
Who This Bundle Is For
This bundle is for:
- Therapists, counsellors, psychologists, social workers, coaches and other mental health or peer workers
- Practitioners supporting clients navigating religious trauma, faith deconstruction, or spiritual abuse
- Anyone working with LGBTQIA+ clients impacted by religious harm
- Practitioners who want more than surface-level frameworks and are willing to sit with complexity
You don’t need to be an expert in religious trauma or queerness to take this bundle. You just need to care about doing less harm and more grounded, informed work.
Your 2 Bundle Options
Option 1: Training Bundle
Includes:
- Understanding Religious Trauma
- Religious Trauma & The LGBTQIA+ Community
This option is ideal if you want:
- Strong theoretical grounding
- A clear, integrated framework
- Language that helps you name what you’re already sensing in the room
Option 2: Training & Supervision Bundle
Includes:
- Understanding Religious Trauma
- Religious Trauma & The LGBTQIA+ Community
- 2 x Supervision sessions
Supervision sessions provide space to:
- Explore real client scenarios
- Work through uncertainty, discomfort, or stuck points
- Reflect on your own positioning, assumptions, and nervous system responses
- Deepen confidence in working with complexity, ambivalence, and identity-based harm
This option is for practitioners who want to integrate the work not just learn it.