🌿 About The Coercive Control Entrapment Timeline (CCET)
Who We Are
The Coercive Control Entrapment Timeline (CCET) was developed by Dr Eleanor Laidlaw Brown, a registered midwife, health visitor, trauma-informed practitioner and researcher, with over a decade of experience supporting women and families affected by coercive control and domestic abuse.
Developed through original doctoral research exploring coercive control in the perinatal period alongside professional practice experience, the CCET provides a trauma-informed framework for understanding coercive control as a patterned and evolving process rather than a series of isolated incidents.
The CCET was created to support improved recognition, understanding and response to coercive control across health, social care, safeguarding, domestic abuse and wider professional settings, with particular relevance to pregnancy, birth and early parenthood.
Our Mission
Our mission is to transform professional understanding of coercive control.
We aim to provide:
- Clear, research-based frameworks to recognise entrapment and harm
- Practical tools for frontline practice
- Trauma-informed, CPD-accredited training for practitioners and organisations
- Resources that strengthen safeguarding, enquiry, and risk assessment
The Parent Organisation
CCET is part of Keiko Learning and Consultancy Ltd, a trauma-informed training and consultancy company dedicated to supporting professionals across health, safeguarding, social care, education and legal sectors.
Why CCET Was Created
Despite growing awareness of coercive control, many professionals still face challenges in identifying patterns that don’t involve physical violence.
Women experiencing coercive control during the perinatal period often remain unseen or misunderstood. The CCET model was created to make the invisible visible - providing professionals with a structured way to understand how coercive control develops, escalates, and entraps.
Meet The Creator
Dr Eleanor Laidlaw Brown
Dr Eleanor Laidlaw Brown is a researcher, educator and trauma-informed practitioner whose doctoral research explored women's lived experiences of coercive control alongside midwives' experiences of recognising and responding to coercive control in the perinatal period.
Drawing on experience in midwifery, health visiting, safeguarding and domestic abuse education, she developed the Coercive Control Entrapment Timeline (CCET) to support greater understanding of coercive control beyond incident-based models of abuse.