You Deserve to Feel Safe in Your Body Again
Sexual trauma can change the way we experience our bodies, trust others, and approach intimacy. For many survivors, the effects linger far beyond the event itself, often showing up in ways they don’t expect, from avoidance of touch to panic during intimacy.
Lena, a 27-year-old survivor of childhood sexual abuse, came to therapy unsure whether she’d ever feel safe enough to be in a romantic relationship. “My body just shuts down,” she said. “Even when I want to connect, something in me says ‘no.’”
Her story is heartbreaking—but it’s not uncommon. And with the right support, healing is possible.
How Sex Therapy Can Help
Sex therapy for trauma survivors is gentle, affirming, and always consent-based. We move at your pace, with your goals. It may include:
- Rebuilding a sense of safety and control
- Addressing body-based responses like dissociation or panic
- Learning to identify and communicate boundaries
- Exploring pleasure and consent in safe, empowering ways
- Sometimes, therapy focuses not on having sex, but on feeling safe in your own skin—sitting with physical sensations, reclaiming your right to pleasure,
or even learning how to say “no” without guilt.
Your Healing is Valid
There is no “right timeline” for healing. For Lena, therapy wasn’t aboutrushing into a relationship. It was about slowly learning to trust herself
again.