About
WiseWOMAN Studio is an independent educational platform focused on understanding how harm is produced, normalised, and sustained within relationships, institutions, and culture; and how women reclaim autonomy through clarity and critical understanding.
The purpose of WiseWOMAN Studio is to:
examine how women’s voices are constrained, overridden, or dismissed, and
to offer language, frameworks, and resources that support women to identify coercive and abusive dynamics that, when not identifiable, lead to significant psychological, emotional, financial, or physical harm.
WiseWOMAN Studio was founded by Donna-Marie Donaldson (Dee), a Clinical Psychologist, writer, educator, and researcher whose work examines harm, power, voice, and agency across a lifetime.
Dee’s perspective is informed by decades of work inside systems tasked with care, control, and protection; including policing, justice, and clinical psychology, as well as by her own lived experience.
This background provides a practical, evidence-based lens on how harmful and controlling relational and institutional dynamics form, how they shape women’s identities and perceptions, and why confusion, self-blame, and moral injury are predictable outcomes rather than personal failings.
The work published through WiseWOMAN Studio is educational, not therapeutic. It is designed to increase understanding, not ‘treat’; to restore context, not offer strategies to ‘fix’; and to support women’s innate ability for independent thought. Bringing together her clinical research background, therapeutic work with women experiencing harmful relationships, and training as a police officer, Dee has developed a non-pathologising and trauma-informed model for understanding, educating, and mitigating coercive control in relationship contexts: the evidence-informed Relationship Coercion Mapping Framework™ comprised of:
the Coercive Control Screener (RACCS) - a screening tool for women to understand and map patterns of harm experienced within a current or past relationship
the Relationship Clarity Mapping program - a structured self-paced online program to support women to understand their experience of psychological abuse and coercive control that builds on pattern recognition, and
a training package for therapists, psychologists, counsellors and those that work with women who have experienced domestic violence or coercive control to deliver the Relationship Clarity Mapping program in one-on-one or group formats.
workshop training and education for professionals or community groups on coercive control and its impacts within relationships, organisations, and systems based on the Relationship Coercion Mapping Framework™.
WiseWOMAN Studio does not offer positive affirmations, motivational content, or personal transformation narratives. Instead you will find resources dedicated to supporting women to rebuild confidence, reconnect with their internal voice, and move toward a life shaped by choice rather than circumstance. The focus is on supporting women, as their own ‘experts’, with research-based evidence, analysis, and with intellectual honesty, even when the conclusions are uncomfortable (but often necessary to move forward).