Sexual Abuse Therapy
Sexual abuse is earth-shattering.
If you’ve experienced the trauma of rape, sexual assault, harassment, or ongoing abuse, it’s likely you’re feeling like healing is an enormous mountain to climb.
You might be struggling with everyday tasks. Your relationships may have changed – it might suddenly feel much harder to connect with people you’ve known for years, let alone meet or make new friends.
It feels like no one understands you.
Work might feel more difficult. Your focus just isn’t there.
Your moods have changed, too.
You feel waves of anger, sadness, disgust, irritability, and fear. Memories are surfacing when you least expect them, your thoughts are all-consuming, and you’re experiencing flashbacks.
You’re just looking at the whole world differently.
You were betrayed, and it feels impossible that you could be safe again.
You aren’t alone.
According to the nonprofit RAINN, someone in the United States is sexually assaulted nearly once every minute. That’s an absolutely staggering statistic – but it does mean that you don’t have to struggle in silence or in isolation.
If you haven’t heard this yet, then let me promise you: what happened was not your fault. And these feelings and changes are normal reactions to what you’ve been through.
You don’t have to live with the weight of it on your shoulders forever.
I provide sexual abuse therapy to help women, children, and teens start the healing journey they deserve.
Through techniques like EMDR and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, we’ll work through the thoughts, feelings, and beliefs you have as a result of your experiences.
We’ll work to help you:
Feel grounded again and redefine your confidence and sense of self;
Reprocess your memories so they’re less upsetting to think about;
Reframe your fear, anxiety, and shame so they aren’t weighing you down every day; and
Navigate around it all so you can continue down a path of healing and peace.
You are not your pain.
When we experience really difficult things, we can start to feel like it’s those things that define who we are. We forget what it was like to live without the pain, the anxiety, the shame, and the fear.
We can even start to believe that our lives will never hold contentment, happiness, or a full range of emotions ever again.
But that isn’t true! Healing is possible. Moving forward with your life – with the plans you had before and the new, exciting ones you’ll make in the future – is possible.
Together, we’ll make sure you get there.
Trauma-Focused Sexual Abuse Therapy for Children and Teens
Every year, tens of thousands of children and teens in the United States are the victims of sexual abuse. For young people, these experiences can shape their view of the world around them, leaving them fearful, ashamed, and confused.
If you’re the parent of a child or teen who has experienced sexual abuse, you may feel helplessness on top of self-blame and anger. You may wonder if there’s any possible way to turn back time – to have noticed the signs earlier and prevented this from happening.
Though we can’t rewrite the past, we can work together to make sure your child feels safe and supported in exploring their feelings around the abuse they’ve experienced.
Using age-appropriate methods like Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and EMDR therapy, I’ll work with your child to find ways that feel safe and comfortable to communicate their thoughts and emotions.
We’ll work to repair their relationship to the world around them and ensure they have the strategies and coping tools they need to continue down the path toward the vibrant, fulfilling life they deserve.
The hardest part is behind you.
By seeking therapy and help after experiencing trauma or abuse, you’ve already taken the most difficult step on your journey to healing.
