What is Lark?
Lark is an app for survivors of all types of abuse that helps individuals break free from trauma bonds, process difficult emotions, reflect, develop healthier coping skills, and heal from the effects of abuse. Our therapist interface helps you track your client’s thought processes, moods, and progress as they make their way through the app.
How Does Lark Work?
Lark helps those who have experienced abuse heal through addressing the strengthening the sense of self. Through guided prompts and gamification, the app is designed to empower those who have had their power taken away in some of the worst ways imaginable.
Even after just a few days of use, Lark subscribers say they experience:
- Better
emotional
control - Feelings
of
empowerment - Roundedness
- A sense
of calm
in their
daily life - Personal
growth - Optimism and
feelings of
hopefulness
Lark provides daily prompts and activities for your clients so that you can provide further support for your clients and encourage them to put into practice what they’ve discovered during therapy.
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Who Does Lark Help?
Lark is beneficial for survivors of all types of abuse, including;
Emotional Abuse
- Breadcrumbing
- Control
- Control and manipulation
- Criticism
- Emotional blackmail
- Enforcing a negative self-image
- Financial exploitation and control
- Gaslighting
- Devaluation
- Humiliation
- Inflicting emotional or psychological trauma
- Intimidation
- Invalidation/minimizing experiences
- Isolation
- Love bombing
- Manipulation
- Mind Games
- Name calling/insults
- Playing the victim
- Projection
- Public Embarrassment
- Ridicule
- Silent Treatment
- Stalking or cyberstalking
- Threats
- Triangulation
- Using “flying monkeys” as pawns
- Withholding affection and resources
Sexual Abuse
- Rape or sexual assault
- Coercion into non-consensual sexual acts
- Incest or sexual contact with a family member
- Sexual exploitation or trafficking
- Child sexual abuse or molestation
- Sexual harassment or intimidation
- Exhibitionism or voyeurism
- Sexual battery or assault
- Forced prostitution or sexual slavery
- Unwanted sexual touching or fondling
Spiritual Abuse
- Control and manipulation of religious or spiritual beliefs
- Forced participation in religious or spiritual practices
- Denigration of personal beliefs or practices
- Isolation from religious or spiritual community or support
- Using religious or spiritual authority to justify abuse
- False teachings or misinterpretation of scriptures to justify abuse
- Refusing to respect the individual’s spiritual path
- Using spirituality as a means of manipulation or control
- Spiritual blackmail or extortion
- Using religious or spiritual events as an opportunity for abuse.
Physical Abuse
- Hitting, slapping, or pushing
- Kicking or choking
- Burning or scalding
- Strangling or suffocating
- Beating or bruising
- Throwing objects at the victim
- Pulling hair or twisting arms
- Punching or hitting with objects
- Denying medical treatment or food
- Restraining/holding you somewhere against your will
- Using weapons to threaten or cause harm
- Forced confinement or isolation
- Sexual assault or rape
- Forcing substance abuse
- Inflicting injuries through neglect, such as withholding care for chronic illnesses or
disabilities.
Financial Abuse
- Controlling access to financial resources
- Withholding money
- Misusing or stealing money or assets
- Manipulating or lying about financial information
- Forcing the victim to incur debt
- Preventing the victim from working or obtaining education
- Sabotaging the victim’s credit or financial stability
- Making excessive financial demands
- Making unilateral decisions about joint finances
- Denying the victim access to bank accounts or records.
Technological Abuse
- Cyberstalking
- Online Harassment
- Electronic Surveillance
- Sextortion
- Digital Dating Abuse
- Threats or extortion through technology
- Hacking or unauthorized access to accounts
- Sharing intimate or compromising photos/videos
- Isolation through control of access to technology
- Misuse of technology for control or manipulation.
Neglectful Abuse
- Physical neglect
- Emotional neglect
- Educational neglect
- Medical neglect
- Supervisory neglect
- Financial neglect
- Abandonment
- Social neglect
