Rebecca C. Mandeville, MACP, LMFT, CCTP
Licensed Clinician; Certified Complex Trauma Treatment Professional; Researcher, Author, YouTube Health Partner; Founder of FSA Education
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About Rebecca
Rebecca C. Mandeville is a licensed Psychotherapist (LMFT); Certified Complex Trauma Treatment Professional (CCTP); Researcher; and YouTube Health Partner with over 20,000 channel subscribers. She coined the term Family Scapegoating Abuse (FSA) – a term that has gained global recognition and is now being used within academic research and Mental Health settings internationally.
Rebecca is the author of the best-selling introductory book on FSA dynamics, Rejected, Shamed, and Blamed: Help and Hope for Adults in the Family Scapegoat Role – a resource that has helped tens of thousands of FSA adult survivors around the world. She is also the creator of the FSA Recovery Coaching Process℠ and facilitates an FSA Education Newsletter and Community Support Substack for FSA adult survivors and interested clinicians and coaches.
The now widely used terms Family Scapegoating Abuse (FSA) and Family Scapegoat Trauma (FST) are a result of Rebecca’s original Family Systems research conducted while serving as Core Faculty at the world-renowned Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, and are also informed by her personal experience of FSA as well over two decades of clinical experience treating adult survivors of this poorly understood form of ‘invisible’ (psycho-emotional) systemic abuse. Her research-based FSA Questionnaire is now used by researchers and clinicians all over the world. Currently her questionnaire is being used in Zambia in relation to a peer-reviewed academic research project occurring there on the effects of FSA on Zambian University students. Learn more about Rebecca’s FSA research and her efforts to bring global attention to this form of family abuse.
Rebecca 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. She 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.