Dr. Christine Marie Cocchiola,DSW, LCSW, is a Founding Member of the International Coercive Control Conference and a Board Member of the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence. She has actively supported codifying coercive control as the foundation of domestic abuse, writing policy briefs supporting these efforts and providing expert testimony at legislative hearings. Most importantly, through her own clinical expertise as a trauma trained therapist, a researcher, and a protective parent, Dr. Cocchiola understands the impact that coercive control has on children. She has created programming to educate protective parents, The Protective Parenting Program, which offers support for children who have been coercively controlled. Her goal is to create a sea of trauma informed coercive control informed allies to support these our most vulnerable, women and children who have been coercively controlled.
