Healing As A Survivor: A Personal and Clinical Psychology Guide To Recovering From Sexual Violence

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Sexual trauma recovery explores how to heal from sexual violence, how to become empowered and how to take back control of your life. If you're searching for a resource to understand more about healing from sexual violence, Healing As A Survivor can help. This book guides you towards understanding how to heal from sexual violence, the challenges of healing after rape and why trauma recovery is possible.

This engaging, fascinating book helps you to learn the important facts about sexual trauma recovery, how to empower yourself and most importantly, how to thrive after sexual violence.

This easy-to-understand book includes:

How To Cope with Depression, Anxiety and More -Find a comprehensive overview of the negative mental health impacts of rape so you understand how it impacts a person.
Discover Connor Whiteley’s personal experience- Connor guides you on a deeply personal journey investigating his specialist rape counselling after his rape.
Strategies for surviving- Get techniques and strategies to help you manage your emotions, your mental health and your life whilst you heal from sexual trauma.

If you want to improve your understanding of healing, surviving and thrive after sexual violence then look no further. This is the book for you.

Healing As A Survivor Content Includes

Introduction

Meeting The Therapists, Contracts and More: Lessons from a Great First Session

What Are Some Self-Soothing Strategies?

What Is Person-Centred Therapy?

Window Of Tolerance, Social Scripts and Child Trauma Healing: Lessons Learnt from a Second Session

What Is Window of Tolerance?

How To Heal from Family Trauma by Setting Boundaries?

What Are Social Scripts to Help Set Family Boundaries After Trauma?

Start Of an Eating Disorder, Feeling the Fear but Embrace, Discover Who You Are: Lessons from A Fourth Session

How To Survive a Major Depressive Episode?

What To Do When Depression Makes It Impossible to Get to Out of Bed?

Sometimes It Gets Worse Before It Gets Better: Lessons from Fifth Session of Rape Counselling

How Should Therapists React After a Suicide Revelation?

Great Healing Moment, A Brilliant Session, Things Are Looking Up: Lessons Learnt from Session Six

What Is the Three Stage Trauma Recovery Model?

Intense Two Weeks, Heartbreak at Home and PTSD Is Not Fun: Lessons from a Seventh Session

Self-Compassion, Adjusting to A New Reality and Learning to Recognise Abuse: Lessons Learnt from Session Eight

What Is Coercive Control?

What Is Gaslighting?

Excited For New Things, Going to Let Boundaries Down (You’re Human) And Thinking About Endings: Lessons Learnt from Session Nine

Friendships, Distress, Trauma: Lessons Learnt from Session 10

Hope, Healing and Excitement: Conclusions from a Final Counselling Session