Yes, that's exactly what we find. Very rarely do I see a client who's initiating services because they're presenting the problem that they're a victim of controlling coercive behaviour violence. We see them coming in and maybe expressing that they're feeling depressed, anxious, overwhelmed or stressed, or that they have trauma or relationship issues. It's through an assessment of what's going on in their relationship that you start to see this pattern of behaviour.
They might even mutualize it in the beginning and say very blanket statements like, “Everybody fights,” or, “We have some conflict, and I contributed.” It's actually through digging deeper into that and finding out who was doing what to whom, the level of vulnerability, etc., that you start to see that this is what's actually happening.