Rebecca C. Mandeville, MACP, LMFT, CCTP
Licensed Clinician; Certified Complex Trauma Treatment Professional; Researcher, Author, YouTube Health Partner; Founder of FSA Education
Rebecca C. Mandeville is a licensed Psychotherapist (LMFT); Certified Complex Trauma Treatment Professional (CCTP); and author of the best-selling book on family scapegoating dynamics, Rejected, Shamed, and Blamed: Help and Hope for Adults in the Family Scapegoat Role – a resource that has helped tens of thousands of scapegoat abuse survivors around the world. She is also an internationally recognized Family Systems expert.
Rebecca coined the now widely used terms Family Scapegoating Abuse (FSA) and Family Scapegoat Trauma (FST) as a result of her Family Systems research and her two decades of clinical experience treating adult survivors of this poorly understood form of ‘invisible’ (psycho-emotional) systemic abuse. She is also the creator of the FSA Recovery Coaching process℠. Her research-based FSA Questionnaire is now used by researchers and clinicians all over the world. For example, currently her questionnaire is being used in Zambia in relation to a peer-reviewed academic research project occurring there on family scapegoating dynamics affecting Zambian University students.
Rebecca served as Core Faculty at the world-renowned Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, where she first began identifying, defining, describing, and bringing attention to family scapegoating and its destructive impact on the targeted child / adult child. She has been serving clients in clinics and in her Psychotherapy and FSA Recovery Coaching℠ practices for over 20 years. She developed the Family Scapegoating Abuse (FSA) Recovery Coaching℠ method to assist adult survivors of FSA in their healing efforts. She writes regularly on her ‘Scapegoat Recovery’ blog and is a guest author for various online Mental Health organizations, including Psych Central, Paces Connection, and the C-PTSD Foundation.
Rebecca has been a featured speaker at conferences addressing a wide-range of topics, including Non-Dual Wisdom and Psychotherapy, Integral Psychology, and Systemic Dysfunction in the Workplace. She is also a featured podcast and online summit guest expert.
In her role as a YouTube Health Partner, Rebecca is also the host of Beyond Family Scapegoating Abuse, an online educational platform created for both FSA adult survivors and clinicians. Learn more about Rebecca’s academic and professional background by visiting her LinkedIn page.
Most recently Rebecca founded the FSA Education Community, a private (paid/subscription) online community that provides peer-support and a variety of resources for adult survivors of FSA as well as interested Mental Health professionals and researchers. Learn more about this new community here.