A history of being abuse sexually is often a root cause of emotional and psychological difficulties later in life. It can lead to anxiety, depression, low self esteem, anger, and blocks to intimacy. Most people who are abused as children manage to function as adults, but maintaining a sense of peace and happiness can be very challenging.
Sometimes, people get advice to just move on or forget the past. Such advice may be well intended (although if it comes from the abuser, it may be quite self serving), but it is not easy to accomplish, and may not be healthful. While letting go and practicing forgiveness is a good goal for a survivor of abuse, dealing with feelings of anger, grief, guilt, anxiety, and other painful emotions resulting from the abuse is necessary before moving on.
The tendency to turn our eyes away from the wound and pretend things are fine actually hurt us more and longer than needed. The work of healing cannot begin until a problem is fully faced.
We can help by increasing insight into the nature of feelings that are arising, clarifying them and helping with managing intense feelings and communication skills, setting nurturing boundaries, uncovering and working through shame, and restoring the self that was always there but had gotten distorted by the abuse. We will walk you through the suffering most compassionately to the life characterized by love.