Religious Trauma Therapy in Colorado

What you were taught can be hard to leave behind, even when you no longer believe it.

Maybe you have changed your beliefs, left a religious community, or started questioning things you once accepted without question.

Yet fear, guilt, or shame still show up.

You may intellectually reject the messages you were taught while another part of you still wonders, What if they were right?

Religious trauma can affect your relationship with yourself long after your relationship with religion has changed.

Religious trauma can look like:

  • Fear or guilt around questioning your beliefs

  • Shame connected to your body, sexuality, or identity

  • Difficulty trusting yourself

  • Fear of punishment, rejection, or being “wrong”

  • Perfectionism or rigid expectations for yourself

  • Grief after losing a faith community

  • Family conflict after changing your beliefs

  • Difficulty knowing what you actually believe or value

  • Anxiety around religious spaces, language, or practices

  • Feeling torn between your identity and the community you came from

You do not need to know whether what happened to you “counts” as religious trauma before coming to therapy.

Therapy is not about replacing one set of beliefs with another.

You will not be pushed toward religion or away from it.

Instead, therapy gives you space to examine what you were taught, understand how those messages affected you, grieve what you lost, and decide what you want to carry forward.

For some people, healing means leaving religion behind. For others, it means finding a different relationship with faith or spirituality. For others, that answer is still unfolding.

The important part is that the choice becomes yours.

Reclaim your ability to trust yourself.

Our work may involve EMDR, narrative therapy, and body-based approaches to address both the messages you learned and the ways fear or shame continue to live in your body.

My practice is LGBTQIA+ affirming, and I welcome clients navigating the intersections of faith, sexuality, gender, family, and identity.

You are allowed to ask questions here.

Schedule a Free 15-Minute Consultation now, or contact me to ask any questions you have about religious trauma therapy.

I do not provide crisis services. If you find yourself experiencing a mental health crisis, or in need of immediate mental health services, please text or dial 988, or visit your nearest emergency room.