ACCEPTING NEW CLIENTS | LOUISVILLE, KY, IN & SC
Therapy for the stories that have shaped you—and the ones you want to write next.
If you are seeking trauma-informed therapy for rebuilding your life in the aftermath of religious trauma, spiritual abuse, and other high-demand systems—or if you are navigating burnout, compassion fatigue, and the essential work of reclaiming yourself—you are in the right place!
RELIGIOUS TRAUMA · SPIRITUAL ABUSE · CHURCH HURT · SPIRITUAL IDENTITY · PURITY CULTURE · HIGH-DEMAND ORGANIZATIONS · MORAL INJURY
FOCUS AREAS
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Religious Trauma
Space to ask hard questions, grieve losses, process trauma, and find your way forward after high-demand religious experiences.
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Trauma Work
A look at the frameworks and approaches that will guide our work together—and what you can expect from the process.
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Burnout & Work Stress
For those in helping professions navigating burnout, compassion fatigue, and the challenges of caring for others.
ABOUT
Welcome, I’m Britt Riddle!
(she/her)
Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist
D.MIN., M.DIV., LMFT
If you’re untangling who you were told to be from who you want to be—this space is for you. Whether you’re navigating a complex or painful religious experience, recovering from a high-demand system, or working through burnout and compassion fatigue, you don’t have to do it alone. With graduate degrees in both theology and therapy as well as personal experience with high-demand religion, I understand these systems—from the inside.
Clients describe work with me as supportive, attentive, intentional, creative, grounding, mindful, and collaborative.
HOW I WORK
I practice from a trauma-informed, queer-affirming framework—integrating approaches that help you understand your story, clarify your values, and reconnect with your body.
APPROACHES
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Examines the stories you have inherited—about who you are, what you deserve, and what's possible—so you can begin to author new ones.
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Helps you clarify what matters most to you and take steps toward living in alignment with those values, even when it’s hard.
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Attends to what your nervous system is carrying—because high-demand systems don't just shape what you think; they shape how your body and nervous system respond to the world.
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A gentle, low-distress method for reducing the emotional charge of painful memories without requiring you to re-live them in detail.
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Helps you look beneath the surface of your patterns and behaviors—with curiosity rather than judgment—to understand what they’re protecting and what they’re trying to tell you.
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Builds the capacity to notice what is happening inside you—thoughts, feelings, sensations—with enough space to respond intentionally rather than react automatically.
MY COMMITMENTS
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We move at a pace that feels safe, and we build your capacity to regulate your nervous system and recover, not just cope.
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LGBTQ+ clients and those navigating queer identity alongside religious harm are especially welcome here. I am committed to creating a space where you are seen, respected, and affirmed.
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Whether you identify as neurodivergent, have an ADHD or autism diagnosis, or simply experience the world differently, we will adapt how we work together to fit you.
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Anxiety, hypervigilance, people-pleasing, shutting down—these are reasonable responses to difficult circumstances, not evidence that something is wrong with you.
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I understand the theology, culture, unwritten rules, language, hierarchies, expectations, and costs of evangelical and other high-demand religious spaces. That foundation means we can go deeper, faster to explore what your experience meant for you.
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Your experiences don’t happen in a vacuum—they’re shaped by the intersection of your identities, including race, gender, sexuality, ability, class, and culture. I work to understand how those intersections shape your experience of trauma, spirituality, and healing, and I am committed to continuing to educate myself so I can show up for the full complexity of your life.
“Don’t ask what the world needs.
Ask what makes you come alive and go do it.
Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive.”
—Howard Thurman