New Leaf Counseling
Therapy for Religious Trauma, Purity Culture & High-Control Religion Recovery
Hi! I’m Ruth.
I offer online therapy for women in Florida navigating religious trauma, spiritual abuse, purity culture, faith deconstruction, and the lasting effects of high-control religion.
Lose the Rules. Find Your Voice.
You know something doesn't feel right... you just can't always explain why. Yet.
Maybe you spent years trying to get it right. You prayed, kept the peace, followed the rules, trusted the people who were supposed to know better, and learned to question yourself before questioning what you were being told. But now, some of those beliefs or expectations don’t fit the same way anymore.
Maybe you’re questioning your faith, looking back at church experiences differently, untangling purity culture, or realizing that a high-control religious environment affected you more than you thought.
Even though you know differently now, you find yourself still second-guessing your decisions, feel guilty when someone is disappointed with you, struggle to set boundaries, or wonder who you are outside of who you were expected to be. You may miss the certainty or community you had while also knowing you can’t go back to pretending everything was okay.
Maybe you don’t even know whether to call it religious trauma yet. You just know you’re tired of needing someone else to tell you whether you’re doing life “right.”
You get to have a say in what comes next
You may be worried that no one will really understand what happened to you—or that if you finally say out loud how much it affected you, everything you’ve worked so hard to hold together might start to unravel.
If that sounds familiar, you are not alone. You don’t have to prove that what happened was “bad enough,” and you don’t have to know exactly what you believe before you start. You can bring the doubt, grief, anger, relief, confusion, and the parts of faith that may still matter to you.
Working with a therapist who understands religious trauma, spiritual abuse, purity culture, and high-control religion can make a huge difference. It can give you room to talk about these experiences without having to explain why they mattered so much.
At your own pace, therapy can help you connect the dots between what happened then and what is still showing up now, rebuild trust in yourself, and begin making choices that feel more like your own.
Feeling free in your own life is not out of reach.
Harmful religious experiences can leaving you carrying shame, anxiety, or confusion even after leaving. Therapy for religious trauma can help you helps you make sense of what happened, start trusting yourself again, and take steps toward a life that feels like yours.
Religious Trauma Therapy
Reexamining beliefs that once felt certain can be both freeing and disorienting. Therapy for faith deconstruction therapy offers support to explore your values, identity, and purpose while navigating the shifts in your spiritual beliefs.
Faith Deconstruction Therapy
Purity culture can leave you carrying shame, fear, or confusion around your body, sexuality, relationships, and self-worth long after your beliefs have changed. Purity culture therapy can help you untangle those old messages, rebuild self-trust, and make choices that feel more like your own.
Purity Culture Therapy
Process the weight of the job, cumulative stress, and trauma exposure in a space that understands your world with a former paramedic that GETS it.
First Responders
Spiritual abuse can leave you second-guessing yourself, your beliefs, and whether you can trust your own judgment. Therapy can help you make sense of what happened, untangle harmful messages, and rebuild trust in your own voice and choices.
Spiritual Abuse Therapy
What Working Together Can Look Like
Together, we'll get curious about your experiences, better understand the patterns that have helped you survive, and explore new ways of responding to life's challenges.
02. Understand What Brought You Here
New leaves don't appear overnight. They unfold a little at a time. My hope is that you leave therapy with deeper roots, practical tools to carry into everyday life, and more space to continue growing into a life that feels more like your own.
03. A New Leaf Emerges