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A woman messaged me after a webinar last month. She was not asking about parenting schedules or who gets the house. She wanted to know one thing: could her husband actually cut her off completely if she left.

That question has stuck with me. Because I hear some version of it more than you would thi...

I remember hearing something as a kid that stuck with me way longer than it should have. "He's only pulling your pigtails because he likes you." Cute, right? Except it wasn't cute. It was the first lesson a lot of us got in excusing bad behaviour and calling it affection.

I sat down recently with J...

I remember the first time a client said to me,
“I left. Why does it feel worse now?”

They had done the brave thing. The thing everyone tells you to do.
Leave the relationship. Get out. Choose yourself.

And yet, suddenly they were drowning in court dates, emails, affidavits, delays, and fear. It fe...

I’ve lost count of how many times someone has sat across from me and said, "But they never hit me, so it’s not really abuse, right?"

Spoiler alert: It absolutely can be.

Coercive control and financial abuse are some of the sneakiest, most damaging forms of family violence—and they often leave no p...