Caroline Ansley is a medical doctor, living in Aotearoa New Zealand. She started the Centrepoint Restoration Project in 2015. She lived at Centrepoint in the mid 1980s when she was a child.

Caroline is an advocate for the interests of and the needs of children of the community who do not have a voice. ​Caroline works entirely in a voluntary capacity as an advocate to increase awareness around involvement and recovery from cult or high control groups, and the abuse that these groups inevitably cause. 

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This advocacy has lead to partnerships between Centrepoint Restoration Project and other stakeholders in the cult recovery and prevention space in New Zealand, including Gloriavale Leavers Support Trust, NZ Olive Leaf Network, PlainsFM Radio Network and DECULT Cult Awareness Conference.​

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Caroline co-hosts the award winning radio and podcast show Cult Chat, and was a speaker at the Decult Conference in October 2024. She has appeared in multiple articles, radio, podcast and tv interviews about her work since 2018, in addition to the 2021 docu-drama "Heaven & Hell: The Centrepoint Story" available in New Zealand on TVNZ On Demand. In 2024 Caroline published a New Zealand wide guidance for doctors and nurses working in community and hospital environments (through her work for Te Whatu Ora Health New Zealand), to assist health workers to more confidently and appropriately recognise people impacted by cults, and to provide them effective care. The first of its kind, this publication is currently under consideration to be adopted in health systems across Australia. Caroline is currently co-leading the Decult Collective,  a New Zealand and Australian professional network for people who work with or advocate for the needs of people impacted by cults.

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As a result of this tireless and demanding work, most of which is voluntary, Caroline is no longer available to be contacted via the Centrepoint Restoration Project.  This project has been going now for 10 years, and through this important work, Caroline has found herself moving into advocacy and development for change in the wider cult space. Centrepoint is now shut down, and it is no longer the place where children are being abused. Now in Aotearoa there are still many other live and active cults thriving, and battling the issues which are enabling these different groups to thrive and continue to exploit people is where Caroline will be focussing her energies from 2025 and onwards.

 

This website will be moving from an actively maintained site, to one which is primarily archival. Contact information has therefore been removed from this page. If you want to talk to Caroline or email her you will have to find another way. Good luck!