Sexual Abuse & Healing
Your voice, your body, your story—reclaimed at your own pace.
Healing from sexual trauma is a deeply personal and non-linear journey—and you don’t need to walk it alone. In this section, we explore body-based healing, rebuilding trust, navigating relationships, and making space for your voice and truth. Whether you’re years into recovery or just beginning to process what happened, you are welcome here.
If you’re looking for trauma-informed support that honors your pace and your process, I’m here when you’re ready to take the next step.
Nothing Is Wrong With You: Freeze, Anxiety, and Overthinking After Sexual Trauma
Overthinking, anxiety, perfectionism, and freeze are not personal failures. For many survivors of sexual trauma, they are nervous system survival strategies that once helped keep you safe. This trauma-informed reflection explores why these patterns develop, how they begin to interfere with daily life, and how EMDR therapy can support healing without urgency or pressure.
Moving Out of Trauma: Healing through Writing Circles with Katie Tiffany
So many people who have survived trauma see with a different perspective, often stuck in darkness but craving a place of release and a desire to get out of the darkness, the triggers, and the past memories that are running their lives. There is hope, and there are different paths you can use to find your way back home to yourself and heal. Read on to see if Writing Circles may be a good fit for what you are looking for in your healing journey.
Reconnecting to the Body After Trauma - An Interview with Dr. Rebecca Patton
To the Partners of Sexual Abuse Survivors (3 Top Mistakes and How to Better Support your Partner) From EMDR Therapy Phoenix
Navigating trauma can be beyond challenging, even more so when you’re watching a loved one battling it. If you are looking for ways you can better support your partner through their trauma-healing journey, read this and see how EMDR Therapy Phoenix can help.