Dr. Clinical Social Welfare|LCSW|Coercive Control Educator. Shifting the paradigm: Children are Victims too. Reignited Attachment.🎙️Perfect Prey Podcast

Litchfield, CT
Joined September 2020
10 weeks away! The world's most celebrated gathering of the Psychotherapy Networker Symposium 2026 is back—and I'll be there speaking! CE learning, real stories, and tools that truly move the work forward. i.snoball.it/p/HYVdUz0/t #psychnetworker
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New episode of Perfect Prey: A Coercive Control Podcast. I’m joined by David Challen, author of The Unthinkable, to explore coercive control through the eyes of a child—how fear, humiliation, and psychological domination become normalized inside families, even without visible violence. This conversation speaks to clinicians, legal professionals, protective parents, and adult child survivors seeking clarity around coercive control and its long-term impact. 🎧 Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/1KF…
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Join me for the Coercive Control Professional Certification. We need attorneys, therapists, coaches, and advocates to understand this abuse so we can better support victims-survivors. go.drcocchiola.com/coercivec… LIVE Virtual or Self-Study
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Texas Judicial Education Annual Conference discussing coercive control as the underpinning of all abuse - we must look beyond the violent incident model.
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What are the character traits of predators? What are trauma reactions of victims-survivors? What are the traumatic implications for children suffering cc (child abuse)? And how all too often family court professionals miss it or diminish or dismiss it.
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Got to have lunch with these 2 amazing humans. #thevow #perfectprey @markvicente and @bonnie
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Coercive control doesn’t always leave bruises, but it leaves deep scars. The tragedy of Jennifer Dulos reminds us why awareness and legislation like #JennifersLaw are critical.” 🎧 Listen to my conversation with Rich Cohen on Perfect Pray: [ youtu.be/wnNPdC-s16U?si=SsA7… ]
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Dr. Christine Marie Cocchiola retweeted
It was never about you not being “good enough.” It was about control, blame, and keeping you small so they didn’t have to change. #DomesticAbuseAwareness
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Dr. Christine Marie Cocchiola retweeted
27 lawsuits have been filed by victims against P*rnhub since 2020 — this includes class actions on behalf of tens of thousands of child victims. They incurred over $100 million in legal fees so far. P*rnhub lost Visa, Mastercard, Discover and PayPal + all mainstream advertisers. Over 91% of the content on the site was taken down, and the company value dropped by over 65-75%. The whole parent company was sold as a distressed asset. They paid 1.8 million to the US DOJ for criminal charges of intentionally profiting from trafficking. (More criminal prosecution should be coming soon.) 👆👆This is a strategy we can use to stop corporate traffickers —Increase RISK and eliminate profitability. Change the financial dynamics to disincentivize profiting from sexual crime. Make consequences outweigh any benefits they get by maintaining the status quo. Make them pay to the full extent of the law. Severe financial and criminal consequences will deter future abusers.
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Dr. Christine Marie Cocchiola retweeted
I dunno man, whenever I see charities having to do skydives to raise money for their already vital services… it just makes me feel like society has failed. Humans have to literally throw themselves out of an aeroplane to raise a few grand to keep vital services going for a few more months, that should be centrally funded anyway? It’s just… wrong.
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Dr. Christine Marie Cocchiola retweeted
Abuse often doesn’t “look like” what we expect. Many survivors only recognize it after validation from others. #DomesticAbuseAwareness
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Who exactly is coming to #familycourt ? It's not high income families, in fact, it's largely families who are struggling to stay afloat. Meanwhile, the judges who make lifelong decisions impacting these families are from the most wealthy and privileged backgrounds
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I couldn’t have imagined that in just a few short months my TEDx would be approaching 450K. I hope you will take a listen and share. Coercive control is not “hidden” abuse. It is the underpinning of ALL abuse. #itisallcoercivecontrol youtu.be/gp2qByKOue4?si=oHqm…
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