Leaving a high-control religious group can bring up crisis-level distress, especially around shunning, housing, or family estrangement. These resources are a starting point, not a complete list. Please double check contact details before this site goes live, since organizations do change numbers and programs over time.
Call or text 988 anytime, for any kind of crisis, not only suicidal crisis. Free, confidential, 24/7.
A nonprofit helpline and peer support network specifically for people questioning or leaving their faith. Offers a phone/chat helpline, local and virtual support groups, and the Secular Therapy Project, which matches people with vetted, non-religious therapists.
A podcast built around first-person stories of people who left IFB churches.
A memoir by a former IFB member documenting life inside the movement and her departure from it. One of the more widely cited firsthand accounts.
A docuseries built on firsthand accounts from IFB survivors, covering patterns of abuse and institutional cover-up across multiple churches.
Look for a therapist who explicitly mentions experience with religious trauma, spiritual abuse, or high-control groups/cults, since general therapy training doesn't always cover these dynamics. The Secular Therapy Project (above) is one place to start; some general directories also let you filter by "religious trauma" as a specialty.
Before publishing: confirm each phone number, URL, and organization is still active, and add any local or church-specific resources you know are trustworthy.