How do you work well with male victim of abuse?
Male victims of coercive control have a specific experience. These workshops give clinicians the framework and tools to meet them where they are.
Stand Again provides in-person or virtual workshops for psychologists, counsellors, and social workers on recognising and working effectively with male victims of family violence and coercive control. Workshops are CPD-eligible and count toward your annual professional development requirements under the Psychology Board of Australia, AASW, ACA, and PACFA frameworks.
For Psychologists, Counsellors and Social Workers
What brings male victims to your practice
Male clients affected by coercive control often arrive without the language to name what they have been through. They present with anxiety, depression, emotional volatility, or a sense that something is fundamentally wrong, and they may have been living with it for years before they seek support.
They respond well to structure, purpose, and a practical toolkit. Understanding how coercive control forms, how it presents in men specifically, and what the therapeutic relationship needs to look like for this population gives clinicians a precise and effective way to work with them.
Interactive Workshops
Male victims of coercive control have a specific experience that responds well to a specific approach.
These workshops give clinicians the framework and tools to meet them where they are.
Each workshop is delivered in person or virtually and accommodates up to 15 attendees.
Recognising Coercive Control in Male Clients
What it covers:
- How coercive control presents in male clients and why that presentation differs from the patterns most clinicians are trained to recognise.
- The downstream symptoms men actually arrive with, anxiety, depression, emotional volatility, before the abuse itself is named.
- How to distinguish a victim from a perpetrator, including the specific behaviours that can be misread, and the ethical weight of mislabelling a victim as the aggressor.
Learning outcomes:
- able to identify the signs of coercive control specific to male clients
- interpret presentations that fall outside the more commonly recognised patterns
How Coercive Control is Built
What it covers:
- A structured framework for understanding how coercive control is constructed and why it is so effective.
- The TTI model and its tactics across nine domains, how dependency enclosure is manufactured, and the formation models that explain how an abusive relationship takes hold.
- How to use this framework as a clinical map that helps a client make sense of his own experience.
Learning outcomes:
- explain how coercive control forms and compounds,
- locate a client's experience within a structured model of the tactics used against him,
- use that framework to support the client's approach to recovery.
Building the Therapeutic Relationship
What it covers:
- The words men use to describe their experience and the words that close them down.
- Why men conditioned by coercive control don't trust easily, what breaks trust in the early sessions, and what builds it.
- How to adapt clinical framing and questioning to meet a male client where he is.
Learning outcomes:
- able to recognise and use language that resonates with male victims,
- avoid framing that disengages them,
- establish a therapeutic relationship that holds a man who has been conditioned not to trust
Working Effectively with Male Clients
What it covers:
- What men need to engage well with therapy, purpose, goals, and a practical toolkit, and why structure works better than open-ended exploration for this population.
- How to build sessions around measurable progress.
Learning outcomes:
- able to structure therapeutic work around purpose, goals, and skills, sustain male client engagement over the course of treatment