From First Session to Ongoing Support: A Practitioner Orientation to Cult Recovery Work

Cult recovery work is underserved, under-researched, and largely absent from clinical training and yet practitioners are encountering this population regularly, often without knowing it.

This three-hour live online webinar is for practitioners who have recognised that gap and want to do something about it. Over three hours, Sam Sellers and Elise Heerde of Religious Trauma & Cults orient you to the landscape: what cult recovery work actually encompasses, what survivors bring into the room and how it's frequently misread, and the honest questions about where practitioners fit; ethically, clinically, and sustainably.

This is not a gentle introduction. It's an evidence-based, trauma-informed session designed to give you real grounding in a space that most training has left empty.

What's covered:

• The scope of cult recovery work - definitions, contested terrain, and why this population is harder to identify than most practitioners expect

• Common presentations, frequent misdiagnoses, and what the therapeutic relationship specifically activates for this population

• Scope of practice, the advocate/therapist line, ethics, and what working sustainably in this space actually requires

Details:

📅 26th July 2026

🕐 1pm - 4pm AEST

💻 Online via Zoom ⏱ Three hours, including a live Q&A

🎟 $99 | Free with the RTC Annual Online Event All Access Pass - Purchase Here

CPD/OPD certificate of completion provided.