Peer Support Groups
for Survivors
Peer Support Groups for Survivors
Upcoming Dates
Wednesday Group Oct 1 to Nov 5th 2025 (FULL)
Wednesday Nov 12th to Dec 17th 2025
Each session
10 am to noon (Pacific Standard Time) for 6 weeks
Wednesday Group Oct 1 to Nov 5th 2025 (FULL)
Wednesday Nov 12th to Dec 17th 2025
Each session
10 am to noon (Pacific Standard Time) for 6 weeks
You Deserve Support: Join Our Peer Group for Survivors of Therapy Abuse and Exploitation
If you’ve experienced therapy abuse or exploitation (TAE), you are not alone—and you don’t have to navigate this journey by yourself. We invite you to join a survivor-only peer support group created specifically for people like you: those who have been harmed by the very professionals meant to help.
Facilitated by Bernadine Fox, a peer support worker and mental health advocate with over 30 years of experience, this six-week group offers a safe, inclusive, and trauma-informed space rooted in understanding, empowerment, and lived experience.
Each week we talk about boundary violations, healing, and finding safe care moving forward through supportive, guided discussion. You’ll have the opportunity to share, listen, ask questions, and connect at your own pace, in a space where your story is respected and your healing matters. Peer support means we do this together—lifting one another up, walking through the dark places with compassion, and building strength, voice, and agency side by side.
This is not therapy, nor is it a substitute for therapy. It is peer support—a space where survivors come together to reflect, support one another, and rediscover strength through community.
Registration is required. Take the next step moving past the trauma of therapy abuse and exploitation. Join others who understand and walk this path with you.
What This Group Offers:
Details:
It is recommended—but not required—that participants attend a free 1-hour online workshop, “What Is Therapy Abuse and Exploitation?” before joining the support group. However, it is not required.
If you’ve experienced therapy abuse or exploitation (TAE), you are not alone—and you don’t have to navigate this journey by yourself. We invite you to join a survivor-only peer support group created specifically for people like you: those who have been harmed by the very professionals meant to help.
Facilitated by Bernadine Fox, a peer support worker and mental health advocate with over 30 years of experience, this six-week group offers a safe, inclusive, and trauma-informed space rooted in understanding, empowerment, and lived experience.
Each week we talk about boundary violations, healing, and finding safe care moving forward through supportive, guided discussion. You’ll have the opportunity to share, listen, ask questions, and connect at your own pace, in a space where your story is respected and your healing matters. Peer support means we do this together—lifting one another up, walking through the dark places with compassion, and building strength, voice, and agency side by side.
This is not therapy, nor is it a substitute for therapy. It is peer support—a space where survivors come together to reflect, support one another, and rediscover strength through community.
Registration is required. Take the next step moving past the trauma of therapy abuse and exploitation. Join others who understand and walk this path with you.
What This Group Offers:
- A confidential and welcoming environment exclusively for survivors of TAE
- The opportunity to connect with others who get it—no need to explain or justify
- Small groups: limited to 7 participants
- Mutual support, validation, and guidance at your comfort level
- Education around common survivor experiences, self-advocacy, and trauma responses
- Shared strategies for navigating systems (e.g., complaints, hearings, legal options, media, etc.)
- Coping tools, self-care ideas, and resilience-building practices tailored to survivors
- Space to ask questions and receive insight from peers at various points in their healing journeys
Details:
- Facilitator: Bernadine Fox, peer support worker and award-winning mental health advocate with 30+ years’ experience
- Duration: 6 weekly sessions / 2 hours each session
- Participants: Limited to 7 per group
- Format: Online (to allow international access)
- Cost: $100 (plus applicable fees)
- Time Zones: Scheduled to accommodate participants from various regions globally
It is recommended—but not required—that participants attend a free 1-hour online workshop, “What Is Therapy Abuse and Exploitation?” before joining the support group. However, it is not required.
Peer support groups schedule:
To get dates for other upcoming peer support groups email Bernadine at [email protected]
To get dates for other upcoming peer support groups email Bernadine at [email protected]
Group Boundaries and Policies: Goal to ensure a safe and respectful environment for everyone.
- Stay on topic: Keep conversations and questions on the issue of TAE.
- ONLY survivors are allowed to attend; therapists who have been exploited as clients may attend but must do so as survivors not as counsellors.
- Respect: Be respectful of others, their boundaries, and the place they are in in their healing journey.
- Confidentiality: Maintain confidentiality and privacy. Many participant are fearful that their abusive therapist will find out they are talking.
- Non-judgment: The biggest gift you can give each other is to see and appreciate one another for who they are in that point.
- Participation: This is a trauma-informed support group. Participation is on your comfort level. Chat verbally or via chat function or just listen. Cameras can be on or off. You can join anonymously. Preregistration is required, but we will understand if you are unable to join for whatever reason.
- Be mindful: Everyone has come to the group because of a horrible ordeal. Be kind and gentle. Not everyone is in the same place in the healing journey and it is important to respect the place they are in.
- Be curious: We can ask questions of each other but must protect each other's right to privacy when necessary.
- Suggestions around healing: It is helpful if folks share what has worked for them in the healing process. But it is important to recognize that 1) healing is not linear and 2) everyone's healing journey is individual. What works for one person in one moment may not be relevant to another person in whatever moment they are in. Ideas can be suggested but should never be pushed on others.
