Cult Recovery: What helps former members recover? - Dr Gillie Jenkinson, PhD

Online Event: Uniting the Continents: Support for the Pacific Rim -- for Families and Former Members Affected by Cultic Groups

* Pacific Rim/UK: September 12/13, 2020, Saturday/Sunday
* North America: September 11/12, 2020, Friday/Saturday
https://events.culteducationevents.com/home
Abstract

Many former cult members struggle to recover, and some take years before they are able to move on from their experiences. Gillie Jenkinson has spent over 20 years working with former members and studying what helps them recover. In this session she will share some key insights for former members and their therapists, and practical issues for facing the recovery process. This is informed by her practice and by her doctoral research in which she interviewed 29 former members in depth and mapped out the four Phases of Recovery and Growth.

Biography

Dr Gillie Jenkinson, PhD, is a Reg MBACP and UKCP accredited psychotherapist in the UK. She is experienced in delivering counselling face-to-face as well as on the telephone and online. She served two internships at Wellspring Retreat Center, Ohio, and has many years’ experience working with trauma, including survivors of religious, spiritual, cultic, and sexual abuse. Her approach to counselling former members is described in ‘Cult Recovery: A clinician’s guide to working with former members and families’ and entitled ‘Relational Psychoeducational Intensive: Time Away for Post-Cult Counselling’. Gillie was a member of an abusive Bible-based cult in the 1970’s. She is currently delivering an online training for former member therapists in UK – ‘Certificate in Post Cult Counselling’. She is the Mental Health Editor for ICSA Today. Gillie’s doctoral research dissertation is entitled: ‘Freeing the authentic-self: Phases of Recovery and Growth from an Abusive Cult Experience’.

Online Event: Uniting the Continents: Support for the Pacific Rim -- for Families and Former Members Affected by Cultic Groups

* Pacific Rim/UK: September 12/13, 2020, Saturday/Sunday
* North America: September 11/12, 2020, Friday/Saturday
https://events.culteducationevents.com/home