Sexual Abuse
Waterford Counselling Centre offers you a safe and non-threatening environment, facilitating access to supports, sensitivity, and diverse professional help for Adult Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse and/or Rape & Sexual Assault Survivors.
Sexual Abuse
In the aftermath of sexual abuse clients with psychosexual issues typically experience symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome, memory loss, grief, and dissociative behaviour. Therefore, the pacing of work undertaken is crucial, to reconcile the impact of abuse upon your life and to enhance your capacity to reposition the trauma, in reconstructing perspectives about yourself, others, the world around you, and your future. Waterford Counselling Centre can support you during this complex and difficult process.
Working together we can examine ways in which the patterns you have unintentionally and unknowingly created, may actually be perpetuating a vicious cycle of low self-esteem. Rather than serving their intended damage limitation purpose, your rigid, self-judgemental thought processes and defensive behaviours can exacerbate feelings of guilt, shame, inadequacy, hopelessness, anger, and powerlessness.
Acknowledging the existence and legitimacy of these psychologically crippling emotions, therapy can be a vehicle to access and release you from their potentially damaging and indefinite stranglehold. Alternative thought, and response patterns can be utilised to develop new and truer coping strategies. Remember you are not your thoughts, and the act of abuse, or an assault, does not define who you are, or who you can be.
Seeking support is a strength and not a weakness!
