Healing Sexual Trauma

Our Issues are in Our Tissues

This week I am starting from a phrase used often by one of our therapists, Jesalyn Eatchel, LCSW: "Our issues are in our tissues!" This...

Only "Yes" Means Yes: Protect Yourself From Sexual Violence

Sexual assault on school campuses has received a lot of attention in the press lately. That doesn’t mean that the number of rapes is...

Mental Health Effects of Sexual Abuse

Awareness of the prevalence and impact of sexual abuse has recently surged in the media following such events as the #MeToo movement and...

Impact of Sexual Abuse on Mental Health

Awareness of the prevalence and impact of sexual abuse has recently surged in the media following such events as the #MeToo movement and...

My "Why" for being a Trauma Therapist: Interview with Guy Macpherson

I was interviewed by Guy Macpherson of The Trauma Therapist Project this week about my “why” for becoming a trauma therapist. I was...

Overcoming Childhood Sexual Abuse

"Anything that is “wrong” with you began as a survival mechanism in childhood." ~ Dr. Gabor Maté Being sexually abused as a child,...

Sexual Abuse: Why You Can't "Just Get Over It" - Part 3

You are not alone. Healing from sexual abuse and rape requires working with every part of the trauma experience – instinct, emotion,...

Sexual Abuse: Why You Can't "Just Get Over It" - Part 2

You aren’t broken. Trauma and complex PTSD caused by sexual abuse and rape are underdiagnosed and often misdiagnosed as something else....

Sexual Abuse: Why You Can't "Just Get Over It" - Part 1

“Just get over it.” It’s one of the worst things someone can say to a survivor of sexual abuse or rape. And yet how many times have you...