Experiencing trauma can shatter one's sense of safety, leaving deep emotional scars that linger long after the event has passed. Trauma...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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...