Certified Coercive Control Recovery Specialist
Coercive control is often mistaken for marriage conflict, leaving the relationship's true nature unseen and the victim at greater risk. This course equips biblical counselors, coaches, pastors, and other people helpers to recognize coercive control rather than labeling the relationship "mutually toxic."
Participants learn to distinguish coercive control from ordinary conflict, recognize tactics like DARVO, and identify emotional, financial, sexual, and spiritual coercion. It explores how trauma affects the brain, body, and attachment, and how teaching on submission, forgiveness, and reconciliation can be misused to endanger victims.
Unlike most trainings, this certification covers responding to both victims and those who use abusive tactics. Through a safety-first lens, participants learn when approaches like couples counseling may cause harm, how to offer trauma-informed support within their role, and when to refer to licensed clinicians, advocates, and intervention programs.
Course•By Tabitha Westbrook, LMFT, LCMHC, LPC
