Recovery Resources

International Cultic Studies Association — questions about high-control groups, referrals to cult-aware therapists, peer support.

Free peer-support hotline for people leaving any religion. Trained volunteers, no proselytising.

Australian / NZ family-support service for people concerned about a loved one in a high-control group.

UK helpline supporting families and ex-members of high-control groups.

Independent UK research-based information service on minority religions and high-control groups, founded at LSE.

24/7 crisis support and suicide prevention. Use if a loved one in a high-control group is in immediate distress.

24/7 emotional-support helpline.

Steven Hassan's organisation — BITE Model assessments, exit-counselling resources, family education.

UK-based charity educating on coercive control across cults, abusive relationships, and online radicalisation.

NYC-based organisation supporting people who leave Haredi Judaism. Peer support, scholarships, mental-health referrals.

Israeli organisation supporting people leaving Haredi communities.

Utah-based organisation supporting people leaving fundamentalist polygamous Mormon communities.

Long-running NZ ex-member support organisation.

Advocacy for children harmed by religious medical neglect.

Survivor-led resource hub for ex-members and abuse survivors of the Two by Twos / 'The Truth' movement.

Support for those leaving violent extremist movements.

Universalist heathen organisation supporting people leaving Folkish Asatru groups.

Independent investigation organisation specialising in spiritual-community misconduct cases (produced the 2020 3HO report).

Peer-support community for family members of QAnon believers.

ICSA-maintained directory of licensed mental-health professionals with specific cult-recovery training.

Research and clinical resources on Religious Trauma Syndrome (Marlene Winell tradition).

Network of religious-trauma-informed therapists and educators.

Professional society for clinicians working with complex trauma — relevant for severe high-control survivors.

Steven Hassan, 1988 (revised 2018). The foundational BITE Model book; CLCI Hub's core methodology source.

Janja Lalich, 2004. Sociological framework explaining how members make 'real' choices that are nonetheless tightly bounded by group worldview and exit costs.

Janja Lalich & Madeleine Tobias, 2006. Practical recovery workbook.

Lawrence Wright, 2013. Definitive journalistic history of Scientology.

Tara Westover, 2018. Memoir of leaving a fundamentalist Mormon-adjacent family for academic life.

Mike Rothschild, 2021. The definitive QAnon analysis.

Megan Phelps-Roper, 2019. Memoir of leaving Westboro Baptist Church.

Leah Remini, 2015. Personal account of leaving Scientology.

Jenna Miscavige Hill, 2013. Memoir of leaving Scientology by the niece of David Miscavige.

Lilia Tarawa, 2017. Memoir of leaving the Gloriavale Christian Community in New Zealand.

Chris Johnston & Rosie Jones, 2016. Definitive account of Anne Hamilton-Byrne's Australian sect.

Deborah Feldman, 2012. Memoir of leaving the Satmar Hasidic community in Williamsburg.

Lloyd Evans, 2017. Detailed insider account of leaving Jehovah's Witnesses.

Pamela Saharah Dyson, 2020. Memoir documenting Yogi Bhajan's abuses inside 3HO.

Alexander Stille, 2023. Definitive account of Saul Newton's Manhattan therapy cult.

Travis View, Julian Feeld, Jake Rockatansky. Long-running deep-dive analysis of QAnon and adjacent movements.

Sarah Edmondson and Anthony 'Nippy' Ames (former NXIVM). Survivor-led conversations across many high-control groups.

John Dehlin's long-running podcast on LDS history, doubt, faith crisis, and exit.

Jane Marie. Investigative series on MLM cults and 'wellness' fraud.

Derek Beres, Matthew Remski, Julian Walker. Where wellness, conspiracy theory, and religion intersect.

Rachel Bernstein, MFT. Cult-aware therapist interviewing survivors across many groups.

Long-running ex-Two-by-Two / 'The Truth' podcast.

Mike Cosper's podcast series on Mark Driscoll's Mars Hill collapse.

Alex Gibney's documentary based on Lawrence Wright's book. Definitive Scientology overview.

Six-part series on the Rajneeshpuram experiment in Oregon.

Multi-part series on NXIVM, made by ex-members Mark Vicente and Sarah Edmondson.

India Oxenberg's first-person account of NXIVM.

Documentary on Warren Jeffs and the FLDS.

On Amy Carlson's QAnon-adjacent online cult.

On Twin Flames Universe and the Divines.

Series on Hillsong Church scandals.

Investigation of Robert Shinn's 7M Films and Shekinah Church.

On Bikram Choudhury's sexual misconduct.

Anne Hamilton-Byrne and the Australian Family.

Peer-reviewed journal and annual academic / clinical conferences.

Independent UK research-based information service on minority religions and high-control groups.

Long-running archive of news, court records, and academic material on hundreds of groups.

Independent academic blog on traditional Catholic high-control sub-currents.

Italian academic centre on new religious movements.

Reddit ex-Jehovah's Witnesses community.

Reddit ex-Mormon community.

Reddit ex-Muslim community.

Per-group ex-member subreddits exist for almost every major high-control group covered on this site.

Family members of QAnon believers share experiences.

General cross-group discussion of high-control groups.