Dr. Gillie Jenkinson PhD.

Dr. Gillie Jenkinson PhD. is a Reg MBACP and UKCP accredited psychotherapist. She has many years’ experience working with trauma, including survivors of spiritual and cult abuse, and sexual abuse. She completed two internships at Wellspring Retreat Center, Ohio, USA, a mental health facility for supporting survivors of spiritual abuse and cults. She has developed an approach to counselling former members - "Time Away for Post-Cult Counselling". This approach is described in a chapter of a book ‘Cult Recovery: A clinician’s guide to working with former members and families’ and entitled ‘Relational Psychoeducational Intensive: Time Away for Post-Cult Counselling’. She is a regular presenter at international conferences and a published author, including the co-authorship of a chapter 'Pathological Spirituality' for a medical text book 'Spirituality and Psychiatry', published by RCPsych Publications in 2009 and currently being updated into a second edition.