Reclaim
your Sense of Self, Safety, and Connection
after Adverse Religious Experiences
Find what Anchors You
(she/her)
I offer a safe place for you to pull apart the things that have been pulling you apart and explore your lived experience with the freedom to doubt, confront, and reclaim.
I work with adults processing spiritual/religious trauma. Whether you are deconstructing faith or attempting to incorporate your faith into an identity or life transition, I want to help you make sense of how it all connects.
Hi, I am Jillian
Religious trauma often coincides with believing that your heart is deceitful, your mind is fallen, your emotions are dangerous, and your body is sinful—beliefs that can be deeply rooted in your faith system. If you resonate with this, you understand the profound work that religious trauma survivors face in their healing journeys. Untangling these dehumanizing beliefs from your psyche is no small task. When you’ve been taught not to trust yourself, it can feel impossible to recognize the truth in your own thoughts, feelings, and physical responses. My role is to help you identify and navigate this tension so that you can take mental health steps that honor your whole self.
My Approach
I assume that you are intrinsically good and you have good reasons for things that are creating friction in your life so confronting them means offering acceptance, compassion, and avenues for healing. I am perfectly comfortable sitting in the heaviness of emotion that comes with healing, but I also offer feedback so you’re not just feeling stuck there. If you do feel stuck, we figure out how to approach it.
Working with a religious trauma therapist isn’t just about confronting religious beliefs in a therapeutic setting. My focus is on helping you establish a secure sense of self rather than persuading your mind to believe a specific doctrine.
Healing from dehumanization requires rehumanization.
Reconnecting you with your body, intuition, and identity is the core of our work together.
Disorientation often follows when you begin to pull up anchor, leaving behind familiar shores without a clear map of what’s next.
I offer a steady, supportive space to explore what’s possible—a place to acknowledge where you’ve been, why you went there, and what pieces of your story you want to carry forward.
If you feel caught between two worlds—torn between competing beliefs or cultures, never quite fitting fully into either—you're not alone. Life is full of messy tensions. People who were meant to be safe can let us down. The habits that once helped us survive may now weigh us down. At times, inaction feels paralyzing; at others, thoughts flood in without rest. Sorting through these tensions alone can be exhausting, frustrating, and isolating.
Suffering often lives in the space where we struggle to integrate doubt, pain, and uncertainty. Therapy at its best is both an anchor and a compass—a place to affirm your strengths while gently confronting the patterns that no longer serve you. Together, we can navigate the complexities of your story and uncover what it means to move toward healing and possibility.
Locations
In Person
Roanoke Virginia
Walk & Talk
Meet outside on a trail to process in a different way while walking.
Online
Therapy that meets you where your are. Serving all of Virginia