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Abusive Relationships
Abusive relationships involve patterns of behavior where one partner seeks to gain or maintain power and control over the other. These behaviors can be physical, emotional, psychological, financial, or sexual, and often escalate over time. Recognizing the signs of abuse is crucial for seeking help and support.
When Choice Isn’t Really Choice: The Reality of Coercion
What is Coercion? Online Psychologist in Australia Kylie Walls explores how coercion erodes real choice in relationships, workplaces, and faith communities. Learn to identify subtle coercive control, emotional pressure, and implied threats—and discover steps to reclaim autonomy and safety.
Kylie Walls
Jun 2111 min read
The Stages of Grooming in Adult Clergy Sexual Exploitation: Understanding the Patterns of Betrayal and Abuse
Explore the seven stages of grooming in adult clergy sexual exploitation, power imbalances, and the need for awareness and prevention in faith communities.
Kylie Walls
Apr 268 min read
The Hidden Harm: Understanding Adult Clergy Sexual Exploitation and the Vulnerabilities of Survivors
Understanding adult clergy sexual exploitation requires insight into spiritual abuse and the psychological dynamics that make victims more vulnerable. This article explores how cognitive dissonance, schema chemistry, and reverence for spiritual leaders can cloud victims' perceptions, making abuse harder to recognize. Highlighting the importance of appropriate vulnerability in relationships and the misuse of pastoral authority, it addresses the spiritual harm victims experienc
Kylie Walls
Apr 268 min read
Why People join and Stay in Spiritually Abusive or high control spiritual Environments
Explore the psychological factors behind why individuals join, remain in and become complicit in spiritually abusive environments
Kylie Walls
Apr 88 min read
Spiritual Abuse: Understanding, Recovering, and escaping the invisible cage
Spiritual abuse can trap individuals in an invisible cage of coercion, emotional dependence, and spiritual manipulation.
Kylie Walls
Apr 87 min read
Disrupted Attachment, Control, and Emotion Dysregulation: A Path to Violence in Netflix's Adolescence
this article unpacks the psychological forces driving the protagonist’s actions in Netflix's Adolescence
Kylie Walls
Mar 216 min read
When Love Becomes an Invisible Cage: Recognising the Signs of Coercive Control and Emotional Abuse, and Religious Abuse
Struggling with an abusive Christian relationship or coercive control? Find expert support for emotional, spiritual, and relational abuse.
Kylie Walls
Dec 9, 20247 min read
Understanding Control in Relationships: Insights from Our Latest Research
Relationships can be deeply fulfilling but also incredibly complex. For some, the need for control in a relationship can take hold, often...
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Dec 2, 20244 min read
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