Céline Castillo is a 1997 graduate in Forensic Psychology and Criminal Sciences from the University of Montpellier (France), where she also completed a D.E.A. in psychoanalysis. During the course of her doctoral studies, she received a scholarship for her research on alienation in a cultic environment. Living in Quebec since 1999, she has worked in child and adolescent psychiatry and as a consultant clinician in various institutional settings (in particular with the Youth Protection Department) or in the community (including the Center for the Prevention of Radicalization. Leading to Violence, in Montreal). Her experience as a college and university lecturer has also led her to teach in various federal penitentiaries. She was also called upon to give refresher training to mental health workers and media in hostile environments. Elected as Vice-President of the Société québécoise d’hypnose (SQH) in 2020 and a member of the Order of Psychologists of Quebec since 2008, Céline is a psychotherapist in private practice. She also acts as an expert in various family and criminal law cases since 2013. Her involvement with Info-Cult has been multifaceted since the 2000s and she co-facilitates support groups since they were set up in 2018.