Empowering Change: The 15th Annual Survivorship Child Abuse Conference
For over three decades, Survivorship has provided vital support and community for survivors of extreme abuse, including ritual abuse and trafficking, offering specialized resources and education. https://survivorship.org
Survivorship is proud to announce the Survivorship Trafficking and Extreme Abuse Online Conference 2026, running May 15–17, featuring specialized presentations for both survivors and clinicians. https://survivorship.org/the-survivorship-trafficking-and-extreme-abuse-online-conference-2026/
Presentations:
Ritual Abuse as Mind Control - Wendy Hoffman Wendy has published four memoirs, three books of poetry and a co-authored book of essays. She does consultations for therapists working in the field of dissociative disorders and presentations on mind control internationally. https://ritualabuse.us/smart/wendy-hoffman/
Approaches to Becoming Conscious of Dissociated Identities and Psychological Manipulation of Dissociated Identities in Systematic Abuse - Ellen Lacter, Ph.D. Ellen is a clinical psychologist and specializes in the treatment of dissociative disorders and trauma from ritualistic abuse, torture-based mind control and child trafficking. https://endritualabuse.org
Remembering Wholeness: Trauma-Informed Writing in Support of Voice, Safety, and Self-Trust - deJoly LaBrier deJoly is a Life and Writing Coach, public speaker, and survivor of extreme abuse whose work focuses on trauma-informed writing practices for women impacted by trafficking, ritual abuse, and complex trauma.
Traces of Western Practices of Ritual Abuse in Mary Daly’s
Gyn/Ecology and Other Texts - Lynn Brunet Lynn is an Australian art historian whose research examines the coupling of trauma and ritual in modern and contemporary western art and literature. https://independent.academia.edu/LynnBrunet1
Unraveling the Tangled Mind: Psychotherapy with Survivors of Mind Control - Faige Flakser, LCSW Faige is a trauma therapist, consultant, and educator with a clinical focus on trauma, dissociation, Organized and Extreme Abuse (OEA), including mind control and coercive systems.
An Introduction to Neurofeedback for Trauma - Joshua Moore MA, LMHC, BCN Joshua is a licensed mental health counselor who uses talk therapy, EMDR, QEEG brain mapping, family systems work, and neurofeedback treatments.
Intergenerational Occult Families, and One Father’s Fight for His Abducted Daughter - Iain Bryson Iain has published an evidence-based, documentary style memoir of his daughter’s abduction. He continues to fight for his daughter, and for other survivors of ritual abuse.
Discussion Groups: “How Ethics and History Effect Present Practice,” challenges in therapy, self-help ideas and support groups.
Ritual Abuse Evidence https://survivorship.org/ritual-abuse-evidence/
Child Abuse Wiki - Ritual Abuse
