Therapy Groups
Community healing for women wanting support, understanding, and connection.
Small, in-person and online groups designed for women looking to deepen their healing through community.
The focus of each group is on shared experience, emotional processing, and building relationships with others who “get it.”
Groups may include:
Leaving the Mormon/LDS Church
Grief, loss of community, identity shifts, fear, and rebuilding trust in yourself.Healing from Fundamentalist Christianity or IBLP
Exploring purity culture, control, shame, obedience-based frameworks, and recovering autonomy.Processing the Cultural and Family Impact of the MAGA Movement
Navigating political trauma, family estrangement, fear-based environments, and identity conflict.
These groups are trauma-informed, gentle, and deeply supportive. Each group runs for a set number of weeks and includes structured discussions, emotional processing, and connection-building.
Why a Group?
Individual therapy is powerful, but something special happens in a group. Isolation is one of the deepest wounds of leaving a high-control religion or losing a community, and connection is one of the most direct ways to heal it.
In group, you get to witness and be witnessed, to feel less alone in what you’re carrying, and to practice trust in a space that’s safe, gentle, and trauma-informed.
What to Expect
Each group runs for a set number of weeks and includes structured discussions, guided emotional processing, and intentional connection-building. Groups are trauma-informed, gentle, and deeply supportive. They’re led by a licensed therapist, kept small on purpose, and affirming of all identities, including LGBTQ+, non-monogamous, and kink communities.
These groups are led by Kelsey Laulainen, a licensed psychotherapist whose work centers on religious trauma. Her own background being raised in an LDS community, years in pastoral ministry, and her personal faith transition means she understands your story from experience, not just from a textbook. (Licensed in Arizona and Washington)
Who Leads These Groups?
Frequently Asked Questions
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Yes. There is often an in-person therapy group in the Phoenix area for women navigating a faith transition out of the LDS Church, led by a therapist who specializes in religious trauma.
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Both, in the best way. They’re led by a licensed psychotherapist and combine structured, guided processing with the peer connection of being among women who share your experience.
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Each group runs for a set number of weeks depending on the group and season.
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Absolutely! These groups are affirming of all identities, including LGBTQ+, non-monogamous, and kink communities.
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Small, in-person therapy groups in the Phoenixe area for women healing from religious trauma and high-control environments: leaving the LDS Church, fundamentalist Christianity and IBLP, and the family impact of the MAGA movement.
