About ABLE&ANEW
ABLE&ANEW is a lived-experience-informed consultancy and support service working with individuals, families, clinicians, businesses, and institutions navigating high-control religious environments and religious trauma. Our Founder is someone who spent several years within Shincheonji, ABLE&ANEW combines firsthand understanding with certification in religious trauma and trauma-informed practice.
We provide individual and family support, professional education, training, and consultancy, helping both individuals and organisations develop greater understanding and more informed approaches to these complex experiences.
Our vision is to grow a diverse team of trained professionals and lived-experience practitioners, bringing together different perspectives and areas of expertise to expand empathetic care.
We are strictly religiously neutral. We do not promote or oppose religion. Instead, our focus remains on practical, respectful, and informed support that fosters genuine understanding, restored confidence, and individual autonomy.
Our mission & vision
Awareness. Prevention. Support. Change. ABLE&ANEW works to increase awareness of high-control religious environments and their impact, while strengthening prevention, informed responses, and compassionate support.
Awareness and prevention
We aim to raise broad awareness and promote prevention through education, helping individuals, communities, and organisations recognise high-control dynamics early and respond with clarity.
Support through transition
We walk alongside individuals and families through every stage: questioning, leaving, transitioning, and rebuilding personal autonomy and confidence in a safe, religiously neutral space.
Equipping professionals
We equip clinicians, healthcare professionals, businesses, and institutions with deeper understanding and trauma-informed consultancy to foster appropriate, informed responses.
Our vision for the future
We envision a future where individuals, families, and institutions are fully equipped to recognise high-control environments, promote informed choice, and uphold lasting personal autonomy.