Bio
Since 1983, Mikele Rauch has worked with individuals and groups, specializing in the areas of sexual, religious and physical trauma, utilizing movement, music and art. She has treated survivors of religious abuse across the gamut of religions.
Mikele is a founding member of the core facilitator team for the MaleSurvivor.org Weekends of Recovery for male surivors of sexual and clergy abuse, and has served on the Clergy Sexual Abuse Victims' Task Force of Boston. She has contributed to CANDID, the Missouri Review, the National Catholic Reporter, Cross Currents Magazine and the New Therapist.
Mikele's book Recovering the Soul after Religious Abuse: the Dark Heaven of Recovery, Praeger Publishers, Spring 2009 speaks about the impact of religious abuse not only on the psyche but the soul, and how to recover the deepest parts of the self, rediscover the sacred within or without the institutions of religion, and create meaning again. Mikele lives, works, and does her art in Brookline, Massachusetts.