This Is Where It Begins

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 You have been carrying your JW past for long enough.

Maybe you left the Jehovah's Witnesses 20 years ago or last week.

Maybe you are PIMO and quietly falling apart. 

Maybe you were disfellowshipped,

or dissociated yourself

and the pain of being shunned still bites. 

Wherever you are in your ExJW journey 

— if something brought you to this page today, that something matters.

This is your first step toward genuine ExJW recovery.

 You join a Zoom call. 

Audio only — you do not need to show your face.

You can be wherever feels most comfortable 

and private to you.

We talk. 

You share as much or as little as you want. 

There is no script, no lengthy intake form, no boxes to tick.

I listen — with complete understanding. 

Not because I have read about the JW experience. 

Because I have lived it. 

You will not spend a single minute explaining yourself.

 I already know what the judicial committee feels like.

 I already know what JW shunning costs.

 I already know what it means to carry religious trauma

 that mainstream therapy has never quite reached.

By the end of 30 minutes you will have a clear sense 

of whether specialist ExJW therapy feels right for you.

No pressure. No obligation. No judgement. 

30 minutes. $47. Private. Secure. Worldwide.

You were conditioned not to trust outsiders. 

Not to talk about what happened inside the organisation.

Not to believe you were worth the investment.

Not to ask for help. 

But I am not an outsider.

I was raised inside the Jehovah's Witnesses. 

I carried the No Blood card in my school bag. 

I know the fear, the guilt, the shame, the Armageddon anxiety

 — because I have lived every part of it.

My father Keith Playford was at the centre of the UK's

 first ever legal battle to force a blood transfusion

 on a Jehovah's Witness against their will. 

He died at 28. I was two. 

I have spent 26 years making sure that the people he left behind 

— people like you — 

do not have to carry this alone. 

 Under the surface, you are still affected by the Jehovah's Witnesses.

 Leaving the organisation took your identity along with everything else. 

You flinch at things other people do not notice

 — a knock at the door, a text that says can we talk, someone going quiet across the table. 

You attract relationships that feel painfully familiar

 — controlling, conditional, love that disappears the moment you stop complying.

You second guess your own judgement, trust issues rise to the surface.

You wake at 3am with guilt you cannot name or source.

Your nervous system is still running on full alert and anxiety gets the better of you. 

You have tried mainstream therapy and spent your sessions 

explaining what disfellowshipping means before the real work could begin.

You are carrying something specific 

- JW religious trauma, ExJW identity loss, the grief of shunning, 

the Armageddon anxiety that does not leave just because you did.

And you are in exactly the right place.

Terms: One Taster Session per person. Non-refundable. 24 hour cancellation policy applies. Following your Taster Session, if you choose to continue, individual therapy sessions are 50 minutes at $147.

The Watchtower conditioned you not to trust,

 not to reach out, 

not to believe you're worth getting the support to feel happier.

 I understand that more than most.

Follow me on Instagram:  @ex_jehovahs_witness_counseling 

where I share supportive posts for ex-Jehovah's Witnesses.  

Stay in my world.  Come back whenever you are ready.