• Recognize that domestic violence includes physical, emotional, financial, sexual, verbal, and even spiritual forms of abuse.  
• Why staying together for the children generally does not protect them physically or emotionally. 
• Explore how men and women typically experience abuse in different ways. 
• Learn how abusers systematically use gaslighting and other means of control from the beginning of relationships. 
• How to best support someone you think or know is in a domestic abuse situation.

Sybil Cummin is a licensed professional counselor and approved clinical supervisor specializing in working with survivors of domestic violence and narcissistic abuse, including the youngest witnesses. She specializes even further by focusing her work with survivors who are experiencing abuse post-separation, and abuse in our family court system. She created The Rising Beyond Community and The Rising Beyond Podcast to offer hope and strategies for healing from abusive relationships and offers training for other mental health professionals on working with this population.
 
Sybil’s website: www.risingbeyondpc.com

Find Sybil on Instagram at: https://www.instagram.com/risingbeyondpc/

Find Sybil on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/risingbeyondpowerandcontrol

***If you need Domestic Abuse support, here is the website Sybil referenced during the conversation:
https://www.domesticshelters.org/***

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