Kaitlyn Jorgensen is the creator of The Survivor's Talking Points® and developer of The Talking Points Method™ —a trauma-informed communication strategy that helps survivors speak with clarity, consistency, and strength in legal and high-stakes situations.

Her work didn’t begin in a courtroom or from a research institution. It began quietly, in conversations with women who had been silenced, dismissed, or misunderstood—just as she once was.

Over the years, Kaitlyn has worked one-on-one with thousands of women across 34 countries. She is also the founder of The Proactive Protective Mom® Network, a survivor-led initiative dedicated to providing strategic tools, education, and support for women navigating court and custody. From mothers facing post-separation abuse to survivors advocating for safety after years of coercive control, Kaitlyn listened—carefully.What emerged through this deep, direct work was a pattern: not just in the tactics abusers used, but in what survivors needed in order to be heard.

With years of survivor feedback, professional observations, and an unmatched client success rate, Kaitlyn refined the method she once used for herself into a step-by-step strategy others could use too. In many of these cases, survivors had spent years in family court, some with multiple attorneys and no resolution. But once they began using The Talking Points Method™, outcomes shifted—often dramatically. Judges saw patterns. Attorneys got clarity. Cases moved forward.

That’s how this series was born.

Kaitlyn offers these tools not as a replacement for legal counsel, but as a lifeline—for the moments when survivors need structure, strategy, and the confidence to be heard in systems that don’t always understand the harm they’ve lived through.

Her message remains the same:

You are not invisible.

You are not alone.

And your words—when supported—can move the system.

(Simply Said) 

When you’ve lived through abuse, especially the kind that’s hard to explain, it can feel impossible to put everything into words—especially when no one seems to be listening.

The Survivor's Talking Points® books help you do that. They give you space, structure, and support to figure out what you want to say—and how to say it—so that others can finally understand.

These books won’t pressure you to tell everything all at once. They’ll help you sort through what happened, find patterns, describe the impact, and speak clearly—especially in legal settings, or with people who don’t always get it right away.

You don’t have to shout. You don’t have to know legal language. You just need a place to start. That’s what this is.

(At The Same Time...)

The Survivor’s Talking Points® series was created to help survivors organize and communicate their experiences with greater clarity—especially when they’re trying to be heard by professionals, systems, or people who may not fully understand what they’ve lived through.

For survivors, the benefits are both emotional and strategic. These materials offer:

• A structured way to sort through what happened—without becoming overwhelmed or retraumatized by the process.
• Gentle, guided writing prompts that help name patterns of behavior and their impact over time.
• Survivor stories that help validate personal experiences and provide examples of how others found the language to speak their truth.
• A trauma-informed layout that prioritizes pacing, reflection, and emotional safety.

But the benefits extend beyond the survivor.

For professionals—whether you’re a family law attorney, GAL, court advocate, or law enforcement officer—The Survivor’s Talking Points® can:

• Improve the quality and coherence of information shared with your office.
• Offer more complete timelines, contextual detail, and relevant facts for use in affidavits, investigations, or court proceedings.
• Help reduce survivor confusion, repetition, or silence when they’re under pressure to “tell their story” in legal terms.
• Support your own understanding of trauma-informed patterns like coercive control or post-separation abuse—especially when physical violence is not the primary issue.

In short, The Talking Points Method™ gives survivors a framework. The Survivor’s Talking Points® series gives them a voice.

When survivors have tools to speak clearly and safely, everyone benefits—especially the systems tasked with protecting them.

No.

Each book in The Survivor’s Talking Points® Series is designed to meet survivors at different points in their journey, depending on what they’re facing and who they’re trying to reach.

At the core of the series is The Talking Points Method™—a five-part strategy that helps you name what happened, explain the context, identify patterns, describe the impact, and clearly state your concerns. This method is the framework behind everything we offer.

The Survivor’s Talking Points® Strategy Book is where most people begin. It’s a 110-page foundational workbook that introduces the method, offers brief explanations of each principle, and helps you apply them through story-based examples, reflective space, and guided writing prompts. It’s designed for a wide range of real-world situations—from navigating court, to custody disputes, to post-separation abuse.

For those who want a deeper understanding of the method itself, there is a separate publication: The Talking Points Method™. This 60-page guide walks you step by step through the five principles, using survivor stories, visual tools, legal context, and targeted prompts. It’s a focused companion resource for those who want to better understand how and why the method works—and how to use it effectively across systems and conversations.

In addition to these two core books, we also offer specialty supplements tailored to specific challenges or audiences, such as:

• Talking Points for Use with Law Enforcement
• Talking Points for Use with Family Law Attorneys
• Talking Points for the Family Law Attorney (professional version)
• Talking Points for Use with the Perpetrating Father
• Talking Points for Survivors of Non-Violent Abuse
• …and more to come.

These focused booklets take the same method and apply it to specific scenarios, offering refined prompts, examples, and insight that speak directly to the circumstances you may be facing.

To get started, most survivors choose The Survivor's Talking Points® Strategy Book—an empowering, guided workbook that introduces the Talking Points Method™ and provides a structured space to begin organizing your story. 
The Talking Points Method™ is there when you’re ready to go deeper. The supplements are there when you know who you’re speaking to. 

You don’t need all of the supplements—but over time, many survivors have chosen to build upon the foundational materials Kaitlyn created, often beginning with earlier 2–5 page Talking Points documents. As demand grew for more focused, in-depth support, those documents were thoughtfully revised, expanded, and replaced with the enhanced supplement books available today—each one designed to meet specific needs with greater clarity, strategy, and care.

The Survivor’s Talking Points® Strategy Book is the "foundational" book, offering a 110 page workbook style experience, guiding you through the process of detailing talking points for each of the 10 phases of your journey. Each book in the series is built upon the principles of the Talking Point's Method™ —created to support women navigating the difficult conversations that often follow abuse, particularly in the face of legal, custody, and post-separation challenges.

At the heart of the Strategy Book series is The Talking Points Method™—a simple but powerful five-part strategy for telling your story clearly. It helps survivors break down complex, overwhelming experiences into manageable parts:

1. Name the behavior
2. Establish context
3. Identify patterns
4. Describe the impact
5. State the concern

The method gives structure and support; the strategy books bring that method to life through examples, journal prompts, and real-world guidance.

In short:

• The Talking Points Method™ is the framework.
• The Survivor’s Talking Points®  Strategy Book is the toolbox built around it.

Together, they offer survivors more than a way to describe what happened—they offer a way to move forward with clarity and strength, even in the moments you feel most unheard.