The following groups and workshops are available to survivors of abuse and sexual trauma who are at least 18 years of age. Participation is by registration only.
Video cameras are required to be on for all of our programming with rare exception.
Support Groups
Abuse, Bulimia & Restrictive Eating Disorders (ABR)
This group is for survivors of abuse and sexual trauma who are struggling with bulimia and restrictive eating disorders and are seeking recovery and support. It provides accountability, information, education and focuses on discussions on recovery, self-worth, struggles, successes and more. This is a co-ed group.
Addictions & Trauma (A&T)
This group is for adult survivors who have or are struggling with addiction (not just substance) and want to work on recovery and understanding the behaviors and issues as related to trauma to keep from using the addiction as a coping skill. This is a co-ed group.
Binge Eating & Trauma (BET)
This group is for survivors of abuse and sexual trauma who desire recovery and support from binge eating and abuse or sexual trauma. It provides accountability, information, education and focuses on discussions on recovery, self-worth, struggles, successes and more. This is a co-ed group.
DID Educational Group
This support group is for adult survivors of abuse and sexual trauma who have been diagnosed with DID by a mental health professional and is focused on learning about living with alternate ego states (“parts”). This group is not appropriate for survivors who are not dealing with parts. This group requires permission of your therapist or psychiatrist and requires signing a release of information due to the nature of this group. Also, due to the nature of dealing with parts, this group may be triggering. Please have a support system in place (your therapist can help with this) to be available to you in the event that you are triggered and need extra support after group. This is a co-ed group.
Domestic Violence Recovery (DVR)
This group is for survivors of domestic violence who are seeking to discuss the challenges of coping after leaving a violent relationship. This addresses a variety of issues of recovery and coping skills as well as the impact of domestic violence on relationships. This is a co-ed group.
Domestic Violence Recovery – Christian (DVR-C)
This group is for survivors of domestic violence who are seeking to discuss the challenges of coping after leaving a violent relationship and how this impacts your Christian faith, or how your faith impacts your recovery. This addresses a variety of issues of recovery and coping skills as well as the impact of domestic violence on relationships. This also allows the discussion of how to deal with hurt that has occurred from protection that wasn’t provided if requested from the church. This is a co-ed group.
Faith & Trauma Recovery (F&T)
This group is for survivors of abuse and sexual trauma who are seeking to discuss how the Christian faith is impacting their healing progress and to discuss ideas for managing faith in the midst of recovery. This group is for survivors who have experienced any type of abuse or sexual trauma. This is a co-ed group.
Grief, Loss & Trauma (G&L)
This support group is for survivors who are wanting to learn more about addressing the feelings, thoughts and coping skills with grief and loss after trauma. This includes loss that is traumatizing. Sharing of experiences may be allowed based on the week’s focused discussion, except for graphic descriptions to prevent triggering. This is an 8-week closed group. This is a co-ed group. This group requires attend by the second week to continue.
Journaling (JUR)
This group for survivors looks at various ways to journal and uses different topics to journal on each week. This is a 6-week closed group. This is a co-ed group.
Men’s Survivor (MSS)
This group is for adult men who are survivors of abuse and/or sexual trauma who want a safe place to discuss issues such as emotions, self-esteem, coping, effects of trauma, PTSD, forgiveness, spirituality, men’s issues and more. This is a men’s only group.
Relationships & Boundaries (R&B)
This group for survivors explores what unhealthy and healthy relationships as well as boundaries are and how to begin to set boundaries. This is educational and supportive with discussion on progressing topics. This is an 8-week closed group. This is a co-ed group. This group requires attending by the second week to continue.
Shame & Trauma (S&T)
This is an 8-week closed group that explores how shame and guilt impact us after abuse and sexual trauma. This is educational and supportive with discussion that progresses each week on the previous topics. This is a co-ed group. This group requires attending the first session to continue.
Transgender & Non-Conforming (TNC)
This group for survivors is an ongoing support group for transmasculine and transfeminine survivors who desire to address issues related to the abuse or sexual assault experienced. Various topics include how to develop a support system, emotions, coping skills, self-esteem and more. This is a co-ed group.
Trauma Recovery (TR)
This group is an ongoing support group for survivors of any type of abuse or sexual trauma and addresses issues such as emotions, self-esteem, coping, effects of trauma, PTSD, forgiveness, spirituality and more. This is a co-ed group.
Women’s Sexual Assault (WSA)
This group is for women who are survivors of rape, attempted rape, childhood sexual abuse and sex trafficking. Various topics for this group include but are not limited to coping, managing emotions, reclaiming your body, and more. This is a women’s only group.
Workshops
Addiction, Trauma & Coping Skills
This workshop looks at the relationship of the trauma of abuse and sexual assault and addiction, the signs of addiction and ways to cope if you are struggling with symptoms of addiction. This looks at a variety of types of addictions, not just alcohol and drugs. Handouts are provided at the end of the workshop to those who attend.
Coping with Dissociation
The goal of this workshop is to explore the various types of dissociation, and to facilitate discussion and learn a several coping skills for managing dissociative symptoms. Handouts are provided at the end of the workshop to those who attend.
Building Resilience After Trauma
This workshop looks at self-awareness, self-regulation, optimism, mental agility, strengths of character and connection while learning to use your character strengths to meet the challenges that you have for healing from trauma.
Coping with PTSD
This workshop is educational with some interactive experiential activities and discussion on how to cope with the symptoms of PTSD, and what to do to help manage, addressing feelings, thoughts and actions to help cope with PTSD. This workshop is for those newly diagnosed or wanting a reminder on basic coping skills. Includes information, grounding skills, visualization, and containment. Handouts are provided at the end of the workshop to those who attend.
DBT Skills
The goal of this workshop is to develop skills that can be applied to everyday situations to manage emotional reactions, learn core mindfulness techniques, and become aware of techniques that can be implemented in one’s life to manage stressful situations. This workshop will provide background on Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), what it has been shown to be helpful for, as well as teach DBT techniques. Handouts are provided at the end of the workshop to those who attend.
I Am Me
This workshop discusses finding identity after experiencing domestic violence. It goes over different types of identities, how to find identity, how domestic violence affects the brain and different age groups and providing resources. It will have multiple discussions and an activity included. Handouts are provided at the end of the workshop to those who attend.
Inner Child
This workshop looks at the various parts of us after experiencing abuse or sexual trauma. With discussion and a few exercises, this workshop looks at the different types of inner children a survivor may have and some ways to connect. Handouts are provided at the end of the workshop to those who attend.
Self-Care
The goal of this workshop is to assist survivors in becoming aware of and improve self-care while learning coping skills to manage triggers that may occur in either group or daily life. Handouts are provided at the end of the workshop to those who attend.
Self-Esteem
Self-Esteem is a very vital element in our mental health and well-being. The Self-Esteem workshop’s goals are to inform survivors of how trauma can lead to low self-esteem, helping identify signs of low self-esteem, and provide various strategies for coping with low self-esteem. By identifying and learning more about self-esteem, this workshop will allow the opportunity to explore techniques to begin or continue rebuilding self-esteem and self-confidence. Handouts are provided at the end of the workshop to those who attend.
Supportive Friends & Family
This workshop is for friends and family members of survivors of domestic abuse and sexual trauma. It covers information on what these traumas are and they impact the person you care about. It also addresses self-care for you as you support the one you love on their journey of healing.
Trauma & Eating Disorders
This workshop looks at how trauma and eating disorders impact each other. It addresses what trauma is and looks at anorexia, bulimia and binge eating disorders. This workshop provides a lot of education on how the interaction impacts us and things that we can do to help ourselves.
Trauma & Hope
Hope is important in the journey of recovery. This workshop can help to look at how to reduce feelings of helplessness, stress and improve our quality of life. There will be exercises to discuss that can be tried to work toward finding hope and using hope for healing.
Trauma & Sleep Disturbance
Sleep is an issue that many survivors struggle with. This workshop looks at how trauma impacts sleep and how it impacts the mind and body, provides a basic understanding of how sleep cycles work as well as teaching some skills in combating and reducing sleep disturbance.
Classes
New Life Class (NLC)
This 12-week class is for non-offending adult survivors of domestic violence who have minor children. This is designed for those who have child protection cases or is referred by a provider for education and support on domestic violence. Class lasts for 1.5 hours each week. There is a homework response form each week after class. This class only allows two absences over the 12 weeks and any absences need to be made up. A screening and intake is required. This is a free class.
New Start Class (NSC)
This 11-week class is for survivors of domestic violence survivors to learn about basic topics of domestic violence such as what it is, what trauma bonding is, what are some of the treatments that are effective for healing from this type of trauma and other topics will be explored. This class is 1.5 hours each week over the 11 weeks. This is a free class.
Trauma & Eating Disorders Class (TED)
This 12-week class focuses on looking at how abuse and sexual trauma intersects with eating disorders and becoming aware of some of the basic issues to address the eating disorder and trauma. Some topics include the cycle of eating disorders, fear foods, urge surfing, and creating your Recovery Toolkit. This class is 1.5 hours each week over the 12-weeks. There is a homework response form required each week prior to the next class. A screening and intake is required. This is a free class. Group therapy that coincides with each week of class and focuses on processing the homework from the class. It is available to class members in states where we offer group therapy. There is a fee for group therapy.