Useful Resources for Therapists
Catholic International Development Charity: Believe in Change Toolkit can be found here:
genderandcatholicchurchtoolkit.pdf
Natalie Collins: Natalie is an international speaker and trainer on issues of violence against women and wider gender injustice. Having written numerous training programmes and resources for a wide range of audiences, she is regularly requested as an expert in the field of violence against women, focusing on consciousness and awareness raising, providing quality services to those who have experienced abuse and domestic abuse resources for young people. Her theory and practice is founded in direct work with survivors of abuse and was developed through strategic work with the statutory and voluntary sectors and working with perpetrators.
- Own My Life: http://ownmylifecourse.org
- Own My Life Discovery: http://ownmylifediscovery.org
- DAY Programme: http://dayprogramme.org
- Out Of Control audiobook: http://nataliecollins.info/audiobook
- Abuse Is A Verb: https://www.ownmylifecourse.org/product-page/abuse-is-a-verb-paperback
- If you would like to be kept updated about Own My Life, you can join Natalie Collins mailing list HERE.

Canadian briefing for professionals working with gender-based violence on Faith sensitivity
This podcast was recorded for the International day to end Violence Against Women and Girls for the Bishops Conference of England and Wales. A pastoral response to Domestic Abuse.
Safe in Faith has worked with the Caritas Social Action Network to produce this Do Justice worksheet on Domestic Abuse. There are more Do justice worksheets available at www.csan.org.uk
Sexual harassment in public spaces in London Forward UK – Forward have published important research about harassment in public spaces in London
ACP Good Practice Resource on working with DA in the therapeutic professions – BACP members only (2021)
Project Dldl research on working with faith and abuse in counselling and psychotherapy (2022)
Understanding Suffering & Forgiveness through a VAWG lens: a talk for Holy Week by Nikki Dhillon Keane
Please see above a link for the report summarising proceedings of the Zutshi-Smith funded public symposium held at Bristol in September 2024, which explored the religious arbitration of marriages involving domestic abuse in the Jewish, Muslim and Catholic faiths.
Cancer and domestic abuse: A Macmillan toolkit for professionals
Faith-Based Organisations
The Black Church Domestic Abuse Forum
Marriage Care (Marriage Counselling)