A Clinical Bundle for Coercive Control

False Narratives and Client Autonomy – A Clinical Bundle for Coercive Control and the Reclamation of Your Own Voice

Professional therapeutic resources for therapists, hypnotherapists, counsellors and coaches working with clients who have learned to trust everyone else's version of reality more than their own.

Clients affected by coercive control often arrive in therapy doubting their own thoughts, feelings and memories. They describe experiences that are clearly harmful before immediately questioning themselves. They apologise for their emotions, minimise their pain and look to others to tell them what is real.

Their inner voice has not disappeared.

It has simply been drowned out by someone else's.

False Narratives and Client Autonomy provides a complete therapeutic framework for supporting clients as they reconnect with their own internal authority. Built around an original mythical narrative, this practitioner bundle combines therapeutic metaphor, symbolic storytelling, trauma-informed practice and clinical hypnotherapy into one cohesive resource.

The Story

For years the traveller has walked a path mapped by someone else's voice.

Every crossroads has already been decided.

Every question answered before it could be asked.

Gradually, they stop noticing the quiet whisper within themselves.

Then one day they arrive at a place where every signpost points in a different direction.

For the first time, there is silence.

No instructions.

No judgement.

No one telling them who they should be.

At first the silence feels frightening.

Then, almost unnoticed, another voice begins to emerge.

Gentle.

Steady.

Familiar.

It has been waiting all along.

It is their own.

The journey is not about becoming someone new. It is about remembering the person whose voice was never truly lost.

What's Included

Each professional practitioner bundle contains six clinically developed resources that may be used independently or together across a single session, a sequence of sessions or a longer course of therapy.

• Portable therapeutic metaphor for use within talking therapies, counselling or alongside clinical hypnosis.

• Original mythical journey exploring coercive control, internal authority and identity reconstruction through symbolic storytelling.

• Trauma-informed therapeutic script, written with nervous system regulation, client choice and psychological safety at its core.

• Clinical hypnotherapy script for more focused therapeutic interventions with appropriate clients.

• Practitioner guide explaining how each resource may be used individually or combined across different stages of therapy.

• Professional licence agreement outlining permitted use within clinical practice.

Ideal for Supporting Clients Experiencing

• Coercive control

• Emotional abuse

• Gaslighting

• Narcissistic abuse recovery

• Identity confusion

• Chronic self-doubt

• Loss of confidence

• Boundary difficulties

• Fear of making decisions

• Rebuilding self-trust

Why This Bundle Works

Clients who have experienced coercive control often struggle to trust direct reassurance because their own perceptions have repeatedly been questioned or dismissed.

These resources work differently.

Through metaphor, story and symbol, clients are invited to reconnect with their own internal knowing rather than being told what to believe. The imagery creates space for reflection, allowing insight to emerge naturally while preserving client autonomy and psychological safety.

The combination of talking therapy techniques, therapeutic storytelling, trauma-informed practice and clinical hypnotherapy provides practitioners with flexible resources that can be adapted to each client's individual pace and therapeutic goals.

Practitioner Information

Created by Joanne Harrison, Clinical Hypnotherapist and Solution Focused Hypnotherapist with eighteen years of NHS clinical experience, every resource has been developed for real therapeutic practice. The materials are trauma-informed, clinically grounded and designed to integrate naturally into counselling, psychotherapy, coaching and clinical hypnotherapy.

Bundle Details

• Digital practitioner resource bundle

• Instant digital download

• Six professionally written resources

• PDF format

• Professional use only

• Suitable for therapists, counsellors, hypnotherapists, coaches and wellbeing practitioners

• Product reference: SST-COER-001

• Price: £70.00

• No physical shipping

• All sales are final. Returns and exchanges are not accepted for digital products.

Further Reading

To explore how controlling relationships reshape identity and why reclaiming your own voice is central to recovery, read The Hidden Cost of Growing Up Worrying About What Other People Think.

You may also wish to explore The Mechanical Boot for work with co-dependency and inherited responsibility or The Tree of Truth for supporting grief, loss and identity reconstruction.