Frequently Asked Questions
Therapy
Do you accept health insurance?
Yes, I accept insurance for therapy sessions and I’m paneled with the major insurance companies in Idaho. Insurance is not available for coaching.
How much does therapy cost?
Therapy rates are negotiated by your insurance company and you are only responsible for your co-pay or co-insurance.
Are you able to offer therapy outside of Idaho?
No, at this point, each state/country has their own licensing requirements and protections for clients. While I’m unable to offer therapy to clients outside of Idaho, I do offer trauma-informed coaching world-wide if that would be a useful resource.
I don’t live in Idaho, how can I find a therapist who understands religious trauma?
It’s difficult to find highly-skilled trauma therapists who understand religious trauma. The Reclamation Collective has a directory of therapists who work with religious trauma.
Also, the Religious Trauma Institute offers training and consultation for therapists who want to better support their clients.
Coaching
Can I combine coaching with therapy?
Yes, frequently, folks who are already working with a therapist, do coaching with me to gain insight into how religious trauma relates to their work in therapy. Note: I’m unable to provide therapy to clients outside of Idaho where I’m licensed.
Do you work with clients outside of the US?
Yes, I work with coaching clients from around the world.
How much does Coaching cost?
I’ve chosen to offer my coaching services as “contribute what you want.” It’s a trust fall into my values and an experiment in gratitude and connection. You can learn more about that here.
Adverse Religious Experiences
What is an adverse religious experience?
An adverse religious experience is any experience of a religious belief, practice, or structure that undermines an individual’s sense of safety or autonomy and/or negatively impacts their physical, social, emotional, relational, or psychological well-being.
Do Adverse Religious Experiences result in Religious Trauma?
It depends. Adverse religious experiences can result in religious trauma, but not always. Adverse religious experiences is a broad term that captures a wide-range of negative experiences, some of which may result in religious trauma. It’s also common for adverse religious experience to impact folks in other ways e.g. physically, sexually, emotionally, and may present as anxiety, depression, etc.
Religious Trauma
What is religious trauma?
Religious trauma is the physical, emotional, or psychological response to religious beliefs, practices, or structures that overwhelm an individual’s ability to cope and return to a sense of safety.
How do I know if I have religious trauma?
Religious trauma presents in a variety of ways, and it’s not possible to describe all of them here.
That being said, religious trauma is not determined by the severity of the harmful event(s) you experienced, rather by your nervous system’s response to the events(s).
If you experience a visceral response to religious beliefs, practices, and structures, I would recommend talking with a mental health professional to better understand your experience.
Religious trauma is trauma, and it can be helpful to look at religious trauma through the lens of PTSD and C-PTSD symptoms.
Is there a difference between religious abuse and religious trauma?
Yes, religious abuse is the harmful event(s) that happened to you, religious trauma is your physiological response to the event(s). Not all abuse results in trauma.
Religious abuse may or may not result in religious trauma.