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The AI Therapist That 400,000 Ex-Evangelicals Are Using to Deprogram Themselves — And the Church Lobby Trying to Make It Illegal In 2011, psychologist Dr. Marlene Winell coined the term Religious Trauma Syndrome to describe the cluster of symptoms she was seeing in clients who had left high-control religious environments: anxiety, depression, inability to make decisions without seeking divine permission, profound grief over lost community, and in severe cases, complete identity collapse. For over a decade, people experiencing RTS had two options: traditional therapy — expensive, slow, often with therapists who lacked context for evangelical culture — or online communities of other survivors. In 2024, a third option emerged. A platform called Reclamation quietly launched in early 2024, o...