Interested in joining our peer support group for leavers of cults or high control groups?  

With a maximum of 10 participants in each series, we’ll be running a new series twice a year. Our next series is scheduled to start at the end of March 2026 and we’re looking for participants to join us. Please share this information with anyone you think might be interested.

Our contact for more information is Jude, at: office@rationalists.nz

Each series consists of 8 fortnightly in-person 2-hour sessions facilitated by Beth St Claire, an experienced therapist with lived experience.

Beth St Claire is a registered psychotherapist in private practice in Auckland. In practice for over 15 years, she has specialised in trauma and abuse, life transitions and identity; especially in cases of gender diversity, dissociation, dysphoria, and experiences with cults and fundamentalist / high demand groups.

An experienced group facilitator, she has previously run online groups to support recovery from cult-type experiences, including spiritual and religious trauma.

Beth has lived experience with fundamentalist religion, cult involvement, and LGAT experiences, and has had formal training in trauma treatment approaches and cult recovery processes. Her research work for her master’s degree focused on the experience of those brought up in a cult but later living in the mainstream world independently as adults.

She is part of the Australasian Religious Trauma Collective; the International Cultic Studies Association (ICSA) Research Studies group, and networks of clinicians working with cultic and religious trauma and recovery. She also provides Clinical Supervision for other professionals working with clients with cultic and fundamentalist backgrounds.