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When religious communities monopolize mental health resources

I want to go to therapy but every counselor in my small town goes to one of the churches I left and I can't afford to travel for help.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Geographic concentration of faith-based services can trap individuals seeking secular support within the very systems they're trying to leave.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Leaving faith and identity reconstruction?”

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