About
Anna Clark Miller is an author, speaker, and licensed professional counselor who is dedicated to helping survivors heal from religious trauma, spiritual abuse, and high-control groups.
Anna's work is rooted in her own lived experience as a survivor. After being raised and educated in high-control religion, Anna spent years working in fundamentalist organizations before recognizing the signs of religious trauma in her own life. This personal journey of healing from institutional harm is the wellspring for her written work.
Anna is the author of The Religious Trauma Survival Guide, a book written for fellow survivors of high-control religion. It offers research-based education on the patterns of religious abuse and provides practical recovery tools, self-assessments, and journaling prompts to help readers get started on their recovery journey. She is also the owner of Empathy Paradigm, a company that provides training and practical resources for therapists and other professionals working with religious and spiritual trauma survivors.
As a licensed professional counselor and trainer, Anna's approach to writing, speaking, and training is religiously neutral. She focuses on identifying the adverse impacts connected to specific beliefs, practices, or systems that were disempowering and harmful. Her work is guided by core values of empathy, curiosity, and autonomy, focusing on each individual's right to think for themselves and pursue healing on their own terms.
Featured Work
The Religious Trauma Survival Guide
People who have been deeply wounded by high-control groups or religious experiences are often desperate for authentic support, unbiased information, and practical skills for recovery. The Religious Trauma Survival Guide offers empathy and understanding to its readers while giving them language to describe what they've experienced. Each chapter includes inventories, checklists, and personal reflection prompts to help readers process their hurt and anger, gain insight into how religious trauma has impacted them, and begin healing from it.
Part 1 of The Religious Trauma Survival Guide provides education about trauma symptoms, the common impacts of religious trauma, the abuse dynamics of high-control religious groups, and other experiences that are common among religious trauma survivors. Part 2 of the book focuses exclusively on processing and healing, offering a holistic view of trauma recovery. By the end of the book, readers will have practical tools for building self-compassion, restoring a sense of autonomy, and healing.
