Wellspring offers a program of sound mental health counseling by trained professionals, psycho-educational workshops, and individualized care to victims of chronic psychological trauma as incurred in families, groups, or relationships. Ours is a residential facility specializing in treating victims of cultic abuse. Wellspring has treated more than 1000 clients who suffered from a wide variety of abusive situations including cult involvement, battering, professional abuse (therapists, clergy, teachers) and exploitative organizations and relationships.

We strive to achieve the following treatment goals:

• Enable the client to live without dependence on the group or relationship.
• Integrate the traumatic experience into the individual's life.
• Activate critical thinking skills.
• Assist the victim in ridding himself or herself from shame and self-blame associated with the experience.
• Reframe the abusive experience in terms of standard counseling principles in order to facilitate more meaningful counseling and therapy after discharge.
• Assist the client in the development of a plan for treatment and/or social reintegration after leaving Wellspring.

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Wellspring Retreat – after deprogramming from spiritual and mental abuse by religious cults and mind-control groups