Women’s Sexual Trauma Recovery Support Group

What to expect

Each session will follow the same structure.

We will kick of the first meeting with ample time getting to know each other, establishing group rules, and discussing your personal goal for the group. During this first session, significant attention will be paid to creating a sense of safety with the other women and getting to know each other. Subsequent sessions will focus on the unique experiences of the members of the group.

Your goal and your pace

Our trained facilitators will help you set your personal goal for your time in the group. Each week 2-3 members will have focused time to discuss their goal and how they are doing with discussion and feedback from the other members. You’ll share a little bit about your self and what you’ve been through as well as you you continue to be affected by your experiences. Opportunities to determine what doe and does not feel right for you are presented through out the process from our grounding exercises to get started to how much you chose to share. We want you to feel empowered and have choices the all along the way.

Caring support

You’ll get caring, nonjudgemental support from the other women as you share your personal goal and have the opportunity to provide support in return. When it’s your turn to share, you’ll get to hear from the other group members, ask for the support you need. There are painful moments and shared grief but also encouragement, laughter, and care.

Learn you’re not the only one

A key take away from this experience will be learning that you can relate to other people with similar experiences and that other people struggle with the same things as you. Clients will often voice very common concerns in their individual therapy sessions that make them feel ashamed or alone. Having a space to talk about these topics with other women who can relate is a powerful and often healing experience.

This group is not:

This group is to facilitate connection and a sense of support, we are not sharing the whole story or explicit details of traumatic experiences. Sharing the details is an important part of the healing process for some and Virago Wellness offers individual therapy or other trauma reprocessing options for this. This group is not a skills or psychoeducational group. We will share some helpful information about truama, the body, and psychology but it is not the main focus.