Sue and Anastasia - Organize Extreme Abuse recovery activism event at the Las Vegas sign, educating about the reality of OEA and the need to end it, NOW! April 2023

Sue offered testimony of her powerful story of surviving Satanic Ritual Abuse for the 50 Voices of Ritual Abuse project in 2023 - 2024.

Hi, I’m Sue Schoetker, and I’m an Organized Extreme Abuse survivor, gratefully offering services to help others heal (see professional bio below).

I know healing is possible, because I’ve experienced this in my life! I care deeply about how survivors feel at different stages of their journey, and I’m unafraid to transparently share my own feelings, when appropriate. I have found that this kind of sharing can really help reduce shame and loneliness.

Though I have worked with survivors of many types of abuse, I particularly enjoy helping with:

• Grief healing work: helping survivors get unstuck in the shame, guilt, and self-blame stages, either in small groups or one-on-one. 

• Helping survivors who are feeling confused, lost or scared, especially those who are feeling alone or inexperienced in their journey.

• Healing from religious abuse, especially Catholic abuse.

• Individual work with Catholic priests.

• Survivors with cult perpetration memories who want to make amends and work through their guilt or shame issues.

• Helping survivors find balance with food and lifestyle so they have more capacity to face the turmoil of working through their trauma.

• Helping survivors cope with the physical illness fallout from trauma.  This might include understanding why they are facing such fallout, how they can better navigate the complexities, confusion and frustrations of the traditional medical system and/or discussing and exploring alternative treatment modalities or approaches to healing.

• Explaining foundational concepts of how cult dynamics work (military, mafia, religious, entertainment industry, etc.).  

Specialty Services:

I LOVE TO OFFER:

·       Individual and small group coaching

·       Individual and group education of member-clients, member-professionals, and/or the public.

·       Training of professionals on what works when treating OEA (Organized Extreme Abuse)

·       Creation of written materials to support all the above.

SPECIFICALLY:

·       Facilitating small groups

·       Coaching one-on-one

·       Co-leading and leading panels

·       Classroom-type education

·       Community activism

·       Consultation groups for professionals

·       Group demonstration/education for professionals, for example how a particular technique works, role play teaching

·       Teaching small groups

·       Creating handouts and worksheets

·       Writing articles, blogging

Sue Schoetker, MA earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Physiological Psychology, Master’s Degree in Rehabilitation Counseling, and a Community College Counseling Credential.  She completed post graduate coursework in Special Education and has extensive experience tutoring special needs children. Although her primary career was as a rehabilitation counselor and coordinator, she also volunteered for years on a crisis hotline, and served on site as a trainer of new volunteers.  She has led fibromyalgia support groups, taught classes in medication management and has extensive knowledge in the fields of nutritional health and functional and alternative medicine.

Sue is a survivor of many years of childhood sexual abuse, including ritual and Satanic abuse, and trauma-based mind control and trafficking, much of it connected to the Catholic church.  The abuse also included harm perpetrated in military base settings, and trafficking to private homes/mansions and group/event settings for sexual/torture “entertainment” purposes.  She consciously experienced life as “normal” and successful, until a massive breakdown at age 45, with dozens of chronic illnesses unfolding afterwards.  Her abuse memories did not surface until she was in her 60’s, so she knows what it feels like to experience the shock of discovering that her life was not as she had consciously experienced.  Sue has had to navigate both psychiatric and medical hospitalizations and “modern“ medicine’s ignorance of the role of trauma in creating physical illness.

After her memories began to surface in 2014, Sue discovered SNAP (Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests) in 2016.  She attended frequent support groups, which then expanded to assisting the organization in both outreach and co-leader capacities, particularly with ritual abuse survivors.  Sue has also been extensively involved in a "Power of Eight" spiritual support group for extreme abuse survivors, which has provided intense education, healing and service opportunities with this population as well as the professionals who serve them.