I left my very abusive ( physical, mental, emotional) husband. Together 24yrs and 6 kids. I gave my life to Jesus. Without my husband in my daily life, I've completely surrendered to God and have drawn closer to Him. I attend church, read Bible and pray. I'm in total awe & tears of joy everyday for how God has got me through this. Supernatural peace, strength & provider. God is healing & restoring me to a better version. I keep my husband in my prayers and leave it in God's hand now. GLORY BE TO GOD!🙏🛐🙌❤ I will keep searching for ways to share my testimony. And I pray for those that read it will come to Jesus and you too will find refuge in Him. I ask this in Jesus name, 🙏

Once an abuser always an abuser.Eventually the mask they wear in the begining slips.Thankyou for posting and sharing this film with us.

This is true. This is what happens when you are going from one violent relationship to another. When you don’t care about yourself, when you feel weak, and confused, someone else will come in and try to love bomb you just like they did and use your situation to play the hero. If you don’t set boundaries or are codependent, all you do is attract unstable, codependent men. This message is hard but real life. Choose your boundaries and never let go of them!

Abusers don’t ever changed I lived with one for twenty years finally saw the light asked him to go

The counselor violated his code of ethics and preyed on the victims vulnerability. Absolutely disgusting.

Omg! Mr. Smith has to be the worst therapist ever.

Put yout stuff in a trash bag, never in a suitcase or a gym bag. That way it's camouflaged for trash, he won't know.

Wait? What? Am I the only one who is infuriated with the counselor for being WAY WAY WAY inappropriate. ? Behavior of just ANOTHER man to take advantage of her. Ugh. I expected the comment section to be full of it. Anyone reading this. This is NOT the way a counselor should behave with you.

That councillor is abusing his position he is taking advantage of a vulnerable woman.

Even if her husband isn´t abusing her daughters, is it still better is she leaves him. It is better to raise her daughters without a dad, then with him, because they still witness her being beaten up, which will damage them in the long run. They will raise up with the knowledge that it is okay to be abused, and that a man is only a real man if he controles his wive through that kind of abuse. They will never know what it is to have a normal, loving relationship. So run lady.

Mr. Smith was a creep. He betrayed any confidence that poor Lisa had in him. Personal feelings should never interfere with business and definitely not when someone should be offering a councelling service.

Very raw and gritty. The acting was really good. The therapist wasn’t very realistic or professional but I suppose there are some therapists out there like him unfortunately.

That counselor definitely went way over the line.

Therapist must have got his licence off the back of a cereal box.

Its truly ashame how often this occurs that either the woman is abused or the man is abused. These movies are somewhat therapeutic because I was with my ex for 4 years and the abuse started little by little until he almost killed me one night. He was a sheriff deputy and we've finally located him and in the middle of a case with him and the department he had worked for. When I called several times, I was told I provoked him, or men can be jealous etc and never did anything. I didn't have family or friends near and was terrified to leave as he threatened harm onto my own family and I felt I was protecting them, in some sort of way. The last night, he had drank whiskey again, started with me at the bar, I walked home, fell asleep in the spare bedroom and he came in, calling me every name imaginable and then grabbed my ankle, I swung my other leg to kick him, before I was knocked out, woke up in the hallway with my own blood surrounding me on the carpet. I just laid there until morning, afraid to move, was in so much pain as he stepped over me, getting ready for work putting on the same uniform that is to serve and protect. As soon as he left, I called my boss and she came and took me to the hospital. He had shattered my left cheek bone, I had 8 hairline fractures on my left eye socket, muscle tissue in my left nasal cavity, a thick piece of skin from my top lips was stuck in my two front teeth and my right ring fingers tip was broken in two. I refused to say he did anything and this happened back in 2011, I still have horrific nightmares, night sweats, extreme PTSD and depression issues with acute anxiety attacks and am terrified to leave my own home alone. I've remarried since and the man I am with now and have been since 2016 has given me my wings back and although I feel my ex left me a mess, my strength is now to fight, now longer going to be his victim because I survived for a reason and after years of searching, a local prosecutor located him and with all medical documentation including photos, he will now pay for what he's done so no one else is hurt by him ever again.

What in the world is with this counselor?!?

Mr. Smith was also really really unprofessional. The moment he started to have feelings for her, he should have referred her to someone else. You cannot let your own feelings get in the way of your professional work.

If a woman has to be with a man in a private room or place then the woman should bring someone with her. I don't trust men nor anyone . It's best to have someone with you as a witness. A woman who has gone through this is hurting lost herself is confused about who she is and life it self. She's not able to think clear she struggles with herself esteem the way she looks her feelings. She's beautiful but questions it not able to see herself. She's broken inside. A man is able to pick up on this and can take advantage of her. Woman who have gotten out of this shit I believe shouldn't date for a long time because healing is important. Stay safe .

I was married to a man for over 8 years who mentally and physically abused me. After I finally fled with the help of Black Country women’s aid I suffered a breakdown with PTSD. Five years I was poorly for, couldn’t work the job that I loved cause I couldn’t mentally cope, couldn’t even open my curtains. My love I had for that man was used against me to abuse me. Love shouldn’t hurt!!!!

Why are we so blinded by love? Or better yet. Why do we think our love will change them? Look, listen and learn! Any unwarrented aggression shown towards you or another human/animal should be your first and only needed warning! Also check the family history and behaviour for you can learn tons and spare yourself from harm, pain, humiliation and heartbreak.

The counselor was a creep

I've said it before I'll say a million more times, if a male hits a woman he's not a real man! You need to know you're valuable and deserve to be treated like a Queen,don't accept anything less!!

So the counselor is an abuser too? WTF? This was a weird story. The takeaway from this is never make a lifetime commitment to someone until you are 110% sure they will love and respect you in return.

There is no way on God's green earth that that counsellor would behave the way he did on her 2nd visit. Where he's inches away from her face, it's so intimate. This poor woman is terrified of her husband and quite likely all men at this point. She must be wondering who she can trust and would avoid the company of men especially on a 1-1 basis. Plus why did they chose a male counsellor to deal with a woman experiencing domestic violence. I've not seen that before and find it strange that a man would want to help or even feel comfortable talking about physical, sexual and emotional abuse. I can't get my head round this aspect of the short film. Is it just me? 20 years on and I still struggle to be around men that I don't know.

Once they hit you they'll do it again

In reality her husband won’t have allowed her to leave home in that black dress. Especially if he has jealousy issues controlling how you dress, who you see are pretty standard tactics by abusers. The therapist is just another type of abuser in a way he’s worse because he thinks he’s “saving” her and is nothing like her husband. This was so depressing and upsetting to watch.

WTF!! I am as angry with the counselor as I am with the husband!

I find abusers almost always give themselves away in the beginning. Never ignore the red flags. Or your instincts ...

the 'counsellor' and her husband are both trash. poor woman.

The counselor is behaving inappropriately.

Couples counseling with domestic abuse? Hell no.

I just watched the second one to this movie and loved the ending....it takes courage to leave an abuser

I’m from Melbourne Australia & watching the ending of this movie how it spoke about the corona virus & England going into lockdown, struck me how many couples would argue, domestic violence on the increase, depression increasing, marriages breaking up. It made me think how small the houses are in England & people wouldn’t have space to breathe & virtually on each other backs. Here in melb australia we we locked up for a long time but at least we had the space in houses for one partner to be on one side of the house. I don’t know why but it angers me when I see women mentally & physically abused yet they won’t leave. I know that they are frighten & feel like it’s their fault at times but be strong & just leave before a domestic issue turns into murder. Always think of your children when your being abused because mentally it’s also happening to them

The therapist telling a battered woman seeking help that she has to tell her abusive husband that she is seeing a therapist is so fucked up and incorrect like wtf

I am a survivor of domestic violence

Who came up with this script?! You should write romance novels, the bodice-ripper kind, where Highlanders abduct virgins and "ravish" them - who funded this film? Was there no one who spoke up (like, dunno, the actresses?) about how wrong this all is? A counselor has NO business coming on to his client, much less offering her to stay with him? You've got to be kidding me. This guy would lose his job, and rightly so...making a pass at a woman who is so emotionally vulnerable - even if he transferred Lisa to a colleague, dating her is unethical.

An abuser is like cancer. May even go into remission for awhile but most usually it comes back. They are rotten to the core.

This is a crazy, twisted film. It's not about Domestic Violence Awareness at all. The therapist is a warped, narcissistic piece o' work.

Concealer went way over the mark kissing his client what he did was wrong. She is being abused by her husband and is very vulnerable if he has feelings she needs to be referred on. Disgusting

Makes me sad no one has the right to ever abuse someone man or women

this is the creepiest damn thing I've ever seen, on all levels.... "WTF?" is my comment...

Wow, he's telling HER to watch her weight...while he is sitting there like an unwashed, greasy slug! Too hairy too. She looks perfect!

Why was the therapist so close to her face and touching her? Your job is to help not take advantage of people

When i was a kid, i saw the same situation at home. My mom was struggling with my stepdad , bitting her sometimes when he was drunk. Also i was bitten by him and she forgave him so often...ii hated her too for her weakness! That was horrible, really nightmare ! I never forgot it since then and i hate drunken men to see now and have Problem with relationships. Bevor i start a relationship, i end it up ..i find some reason ..sometimes it is so sad..that i don't me give and other people chance to having a relationship.. i wanted to be independent and strong , not like my mom, but i know trust in men or sth is broken forever..

The sad thing of this women was the kids where so used to see there mom with bruises on her face never asked her why..

My ex raped and beat me until one day we was in his car and he punched me in the chest so I stabbed in the leg he crashed his car and I stunt rolled and ran called the police now he’s behind bars

This is insane. An abuser counseling an abuse victim.

Now I'm officially terrified of therapists

That councillor was gross for doing that

Why do people think all abusers must look a certain way and have to be instantly abusive and expect them to notice instantly. Some abusers are initially very charming, with many supporters that reassure they are great people or least unproblematic. Which is worst than realizing instantly that they are abusers.

If a US counselor had a relationship with a client he would lose his license for sure. Don't know how he gets away with that in the UK.

So much going on here, abused by husband, therapist, mother… learned patterns from a cold detached mother, that this poor woman keeps repeating-enacting in all her relationships.

And yes, as someone else already commented, this therapist is a PREDATOR.

This "therapist" is extremely inappropriate.

this it nuts... the therapist is such an odd twist to this...

The lady is lucky to have a friend who cares about her and wants to help her!

Sometimes people don't get help. Sometimes someone's so isolated from everyone and have no siblings and both parents died so what happens to that woman? The woman has no one

Fantastic, great work! Hope you get the recognition that you all deserve

I'm I alone in thinking the therapist stepped way over the line 😕

Counsellor was very abusive towards his staff he needs help like the husband.

The councillor isnt very professional is he? Geting her more confused.

I had twenty years of abusive husband after twenty years ask him to go eventually he did Iv never looked back they never change never

Excellent work Holly, great direction and storytelling.. xx

This entire thing plays out as a bad nightmare in every direction..

Brilliant work, truly effective in every way it intends.

Great film! Congratulations to the team :) Holly you are a star! I hope you all get recognised for your hard work!

Yes ,what the guy said. An abuser always an abuser ,I’ve been there before and I ran away fast !!

People should know that predators there are in all professions, no matter what, we need to search a lot of knowledge and take care of ourselves.

I like the movie, but the Dr. Seems attracted to his patient. Update: I TOLD YOU SO! OMG. What if he was not attracted to the patient? Could be still be so genuine. Problem #1 getting personally involved with your patients.

Most incompetent therapist

Once an abuser Always be an abuser

Things will get better for people in need 🙏

Great job everyone! 🤟🤟

Super weird approach to a domestic violence awareness film.

Congratulations team! We did it!

So far I do not like the therapist ,he is creepy..and no one knows what goes on behind closed doors in a marriage if you do not speak up..

Therapists puttiing her in danger ,wow

The last thing a woman wants is f another man t come on t her whn she’s being battered by another.

being a survivor from a narsacistic abuser - this was very good from her acting as its not easy to leave due to trauma bonding, fear and a whole bunch of other crap they do to you - however the coucelor's approach is very wrong it should be a very slow, patient and i want to say very gentle approach as we as the victim as in denial, proctecting the abuser and very much brainwashed to make the move and get out

From one creep to another, what was this?

This therapist is PREDATOR

Not a very good counsellor.

The tip of the iceberg is just how much domestic abuse goes on behind closed doors. It is a gradual thing before it is realised the victim is caught in the abuser's web. I was confused with the counsellor completely unprofessional crossing boundaries kissing a vulnerable victim. I have never heard of a counsellor advising a victim to disclose to the abuser she is having counselling regarding their toxic marriage risking her getting a beating. The councillor was manipulating her just as her husband did at the start of their relationship. He was just as much a bully in the making. The way he verbally attacked the receptionist demeaning her & firing her. The poor woman wasn't receiving genuine help other than from her best friend. No family an unprofessional councillor & a bully of a husband. I hope she was able to find the right help & get away from her husband & stay clear from the oddball her instinct as she went to mention something wasn't quite right but dismissed it. Listen to your gut instinct it will serve you well.

Children, particularly women need to be taught the warning signs of family violence and what to do when they are young, and warned well before they start dating.

What…did I just watch?

What did I just watch?!

That therapist was rude in beginning. He took it hard that she didnt wanna talk.

Abuse isn't caused by anger it's an addiction atleast that's what I believe 🤧

I was stupid for letting my ex beat me for stupid reasons.He was so jealous. I knew when driving with him, if I barely looked at a man that was walking he slapped me so hard. I did whatever I could to make him happyl.. I always had a job. I was the one who bought mostly everything.. at the time I made sure I didn't get pregnant. And the crazy thing was I could have left him and went to my mom.. I was heartbroken when my dad died after my 15 the B. Day. But I did tell my Jeasus thank u for not having my daddy die on my B.day. The crazy thing was I've never seen my daddy yelled or hit my mom.. Why did I let him beat me?? I got married to him at 16 and he was 22. Why I put up with the abuse for 6 years..

This lady didn't have anyone who loved her.. I did and still put up with the abuse I was so stupid!! Why I did I don't know why?? I know that I was sex. abuse by a family mem. Maybe that's why?? I miss my mom and dad they both died.. I'm 56 years old now and all my children are grown and my husband now live in a house I love.. I don't work anymore. My husband works hard and we have a wonderful house. And he appreciates everything I do for him...🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼❤️❤️❤️

Great work!

I went thru hell in back left after 22 years

That councillar violated his code of conduct. Sadly lots of women go through this. Its hard to just get up and leave.

this is so good!

Mr. Smith is the same way.

Terrible film, totally puts the responsibility on the victim. This would deter anyone from opening up.

Not the imagination with the full suit on 24/7😭

I still don't know why I put up with the abuse for so long

The undetected ones are the most dangerous ones , because their never scene in a different light . Sometimes the give away is in the language they speak a undertone of undermining phrases like a back handed comment in that sentence statement you can catch them trying to make you second guess yourself done over time can cause real problems been at the mercy of someone with bad intentions.

This 🎉 movie 🎉❤❤😊is really crazy! 😊😊😊🎉❤