Is anxiety impacting almost everything in your life? Do you need help getting over some difficult life experiences including grief, trauma, and PTSD? As, well, do you feel sad more often than not? Do you have low sexual desire or avoid sex due to past trauma? Would you like a religious and sexual trauma therapist to help improve your confidence after trauma? Is your sex life not satisfying or frequent enough? Has religious and sexual trauma created sex and intimacy struggles for you? Do you feel nervous and self-conscious about your sexuality due to growing up in a strict, religious home or culture? At times, is sex painful for you, and you want it to be more fun and pleasurable? Wisdom Within Counseling specializes in religious and sexual trauma therapy. You can start to feel comfortable talking about your sexuality, your sex life, and communicate with your partner about your religious and sexual trauma.
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Reclaiming Power and Healing: Overcoming Sexual Trauma and Religious Abuse
To start, sexual abuse and religious trauma often go hand in hand.
You may feel triggered, anxious, avoidant, angry, and upset around sex and intimacy with your partner after sexual and religious trauma. Sexual trauma is a devastating experience that can inflict deep wounds upon survivors of sexual abuse. But, any couples do not talk about sex, sexual pain, sexual needs, and sexual trauma. Along with religious abuse, as a survivor of sexual trauma, you may have been are made to feel responsible or at fault for the sexual abuse done to you.
Sexual and religious abuse experiences can lead to sex issues, an avoidance of sex, and anxiety, shame, and guilt around sexual pleasure.
You can learn to talk about your sex drive and sexuality with confidence. In counseling, you can talk about the effect of religious trauma and sexual abuse on your sex life and intimate life. There may be feelings of sexual frustration, self-blame, anger, fear, guilt, shame, and disgust that you need to process due to sexual abuse and religious trauma experiences.
On that note, religious and sexual trauma therapy at Wisdom Within Counseling can help you remove self-blame and shame after religious and sexual abuse. The team of religious and sexual trauma therapists at Wisdom Within Counseling support and guide all genders, bust especially women who have suffered from both sexual trauma and religious abuse.
After religious abusive and sexual trauma, many women are blamed when they are in fact victims of sexual trauma
Many times, society, culture, and religious views blame victims for the sexual violence they experience.
Were you raised in a culture that blamed you for your appearance rather than holding sexual violence perpetrators accountable?
Living in a family who tells you that you are to blame after you share experiences of sexual trauma creates more complex trauma. You may feel angry with your family for not protecting you.
As well, religious and sexual trauma therapy can be supportive when you experience victim-blaming. Experiencing sexual violence is never your fault. Rape, incest, molestation, non-contact sexual abuse, and sexual violence exists and can happen to anyone.
Regardless of your age, gender, nationality, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and relationship status, you may have experienced religious abuse and sexual trauma.
Religious and sexual trauma therapy at Wisdom Within Counseling can help you feel confident in your sexuality after sexual abuse.
You can better understand the impact of your strict religious culture and background through religious and sexual trauma therapy at Wisdom Within Counseling.
Being influenced by abusive religious leaders in childhood and adolescent years who blame women for surviving sexual abuse leads to relationship and intimacy issues in adulthood. A mixture of marriage counseling and individual counseling can help you process your feelings from religious abuse and sexual trauma.
It can be hard to trust others after trauma. There may be sexual expectations that differ for you and your partner, but you don’t discuss them. To add, trauma and fear-based sexual messages around sex from a conservative upbringing can lead to sexual fear and frustration.
Your religious and sexual trauma therapist at Wisdom Within Counseling can help you recognize that you are resilient as a sexual abuse survivor.
Talking in your partner about your past can lead to emotional vulnerability, relationship security, and deeper commitment. You can learn to work on and talk about sexual communication, sexual needs, desires for bonding, and intimacy fears in couples counseling.
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Shame and Guilt From A Strict Religious Background
Shame and guilt are powerful emotions that can deeply impact survivors of sexual and religious abuse. To note, particularly those raised in a strict religious background carry shame and guilt around sex and intimacy.
Shame, anxiety, nervousness, guilt, and fear can lead to sexual disappointment, sexual rejection, sexual avoidance, and low libido issues.
It may be confusing as to why you and experiencing issues in you sex life and intimacy. Your couples therapist at Wisdom Within Counseling can help you both express love and put love into action, to help each other feel more loved after trauma.
Right now, you may be dealing with anxiety, shame and guilt due to the influence of your sexual trauma and religious upbringing.
At Wisdom Within Counseling, you can explore your emotions and gain positive coping strategies for healing and self-acceptance. Religious and sexual trauma therapy aims to empower you to break free from the chains of anxiety, stress, overwhelm, fear, shame, and guilt around sex and intimacy. Furthermore, individual therapy and couples counseling can help you foster personal growth and gain a confident, renewed sense of self.
Examples of how religious and sexual trauma counseling can help with shame and guilt around sexuality
For one, you may feel shame or guilt if you start to break away from the religious teachings that your parents taught you about sex and intimacy.
Even if the teachings are misinformation and fear-based, that aren’t accurate or true education at all, you may still feel torn about breaking away. From a young adolescent age, you may have been taught to be pure.
Breaking away from the mindset of purity culture can be a part of religious and sexual trauma counseling.
Furthermore, purity culture refers to a set of beliefs and practices that emphasize sexual abstinence, strict modesty, and the preservation of virginity until marriage. Purity culture can vary across different religious communities. Maybe, there was a time where you felt you had to be celibate or abstain from sex in order to be more pure, or mentally clear. We are often told to abstain from sexual pleasure, and that sexual pleasure is evil or bad.
But, this mindset sets young women up to “be of service” to a spouse, rather than have a voice about her own sexual needs.
As well, purity culture causes young women and women of all ages live in fear of pleasure. And, women often feel they don’t deserve enjoyable sexual experiences until getting into counseling. To add, low libido and lack of interest in sex can be from sex feeling like an obligation, duty, or chore. When a woman feels that she has to always be in service or always say, “Yes,” sex becomes like work and an obligation. Also, a woman may no longer want to have sex due to sex feeling boring, and even painful. Her romantic, sexual partner may face a sexual rejection from her as a result of sex feeling like an obligation or painful.
Growing up with a purity culture influence can lead to sexual anxiety, sexual avoidance, painful sex, and a disinterest in sex.
And, the fear of not being good at bed or fear of disappointing a partner leads women to forfeit their own sexual needs and desires. Often, women put their partner’s sexual desires and sexual needs first, before their own. Women may experience painful and uncomfortable sexual experiences. But, they choose to stay quiet during sex, as a result of religious trauma and purity culture influences.
Virginity pledges, modesty, and purity rings
Purity culture often encourages adolescent girls to make public commitments to remain abstinent until marriage. This can involve signing pledges or wearing purity rings as visible symbols of their commitment to purity. If a young woman chooses to have sex before marriage, she may risk feeling ostracized or rejected by her entire community. She may face public humiliation as a result of wanting to explore herself sexually and express her self sexually.
Young girls are told to cover up, rather than young boys being taught how to be respectful of body boundaries.
Additionally, purity culture places a heavy emphasis on modesty, particularly for women. Shame and guilt about having a feminine body can lead a woman to carry fears into her adult life. And, these fears, shame, guilt, and anxieties can impact intimacy and your sex life.
More so, modesty standards may dictate specific dress codes, such as requiring women to cover their shoulders, knees, or wear skirts of a certain length.
These views teach young girls that her clothing choices can be a distraction for boys and cause men to have impure thoughts. Instead of young boys being taught how to stay focused on themselves, young girls are forced to carry much more sexual responsibility.
It is never a woman’s fault for being sexually abused, no matter what she was wearing or even if she was naked.
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If a girl is wearing a short skirt when sexually abused, a purity culture mindset blames the girl for the clothes she was wearing, and not the perpetrator for their abusive actions.
Persistent myths and inaccurate information due to strict, religious teaching surrounding sexual violence sadly teach young girls that they provoked the sexual assault through their behavior or clothing.
Unfortunately, many strict, conservative, religious view points contribute to victim-blaming, making survivors of trauma experience more self-blame. In counseling, you can work individually and in couples therapy to overcomes strict, religious teachings. The shame, guilt, anxiety, fear, nervousness, pain, and anger you feel can be released in individual therapy and couples counseling.
If you’re having issues with your sex life and wanting to explore sexual pleasure more so, you may need help overcoming negative views about your body and sex.
Overall, religious abuse and sexual trauma can go hand in hand. A religious community may further the sexual trauma and self-blame a young woman experiences. Sexual myths and inaccurate information on sexual abuse perpetuates harmful stereotypes.
Negative views from religious and sexual trauma may be a part of your marital conflicts about sex, and sexual problems.
As a victim of sexual abuse, you may have experienced more trauma and blame when your religious leaders or your family tried to inaccurately shift the responsibility from your perpetrator to you, as the victim.
To begin, click below for your phone consult for counseling to overcome religious shame, guilt, and trauma, and more fully enjoy your sexuality.
At Wisdom Within Counseling, religious and sexual trauma therapy can help you release self-blame and gain proper education regarding sexual assault and sexual trauma.
Addressing victim-blaming requires a comprehensive and collective effort to challenge societal attitudes and beliefs.
Counseling includes promoting education about consent, dismantling gender stereotypes, fostering empathy and understanding, and holding perpetrators accountable for their actions. Wisdom Within Counseling supports survivors with empathy. To note, our religious and sexual trauma therapists at Wisdom Within Counseling believe your trauma story. Overall, we create a safe space for disclosure, as you become more vulnerable with your partner.
Religious and sexual trauma therapy at Wisdom Within Counseling can help you when you have been told that sex before marriage makes you “damaged goods”
Many girls grow up learning about the “damaged goods” metaphor and this is a form of religious and sexual trauma.
A strict, religious upbringing and purity culture in childhood can perpetuate the idea that engaging in sexual activity outside of marriage or before leads to being dirty. As well, this includes even being a victim of sexual assault or abuse.
Girls are sadly taught that enduring sexual abuse tarnishes her worth and purity. Growing up with this “damaged goods” belief can lead you to have feelings of shame, guilt, and self-blame.
Counseling at Wisdom Within can help you believe in yourself, develop better self-worth tools, and an erotic, passionate, pleasurable sex life.
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Religious trauma can lead women to take on self-blame, when men get sexual freedom
As well, the religious trauma and the purity culture often places a disproportionate emphasis on female purity. Growing up, you may have felt a burden and responsibility to maintain your purity sexually.
However, the men in your church or brothers didn’t have this same sexual obligation. Furthermore, this element of religious trauma can lead to sexual objectification. As well, girls may grow into women who believe men deserve control of their body and sexuality.
Talk about sexual shame and fear, which in common, in religious trauma and sexual abuse counseling
Purity culture instills fear and shame around sexuality, portraying sex as inherently sinful or dirty. This is especially true when sex occurs outside the confines of heterosexual marriage. As well, fear and shame around sexuality can lead to a negative view of your own sexuality. When you view y our sexuality through insecurity, shame or fear, you may have difficulties with intimacy.
Abstinence-only education is common in abusive, strict, religious upbringings and sexual trauma experiences
As well, the purity culture often promotes abstinence-only sex education, which is not accurate sex education.
Unfortunately, this type of sex education typically focuses on teaching young people to abstain from sexual activity rather than providing comprehensive information about sexual health, body boundaries, consent, and safe sexual practices.
At Wisdom Within Counseling, our religious and sexual trauma therapists work with women who grew up with a lack of comprehensive sex education.
You can gain confidence around your sexuality and a healthy, consensual relationship with sex through religious and sexual trauma therapy. When you grow up with negative sexual beliefs and in a purity culture, you may carry fear, anxiety, shame, guilt, insecurity, and confusion.
At Wisdom Within Counseling, working with our religious and sexual trauma therapists, you can work through limiting, negative beliefs you may still be carrying from religious abuse and sexual trauma experiences. Counseling at Wisdom Within can help you believe you deserve an erotic, passionate, pleasurable sex life and learn tools to create it.
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Shame and guilt can be major barriers to enjoying sex, developing a confident sexuality, and personal growth.
Therefore, religious and sexual trauma therapy at Wisdom Within Counseling can help you develop self-acceptance. From counseling, you can come to believe that what you were told in childhood was actually inaccurate, and abusive.
Fear-based messages are no longer serving your ability to confidently express your sexuality and be in touch with your inner voice.
From religious and sexual trauma therapy, you can become confident in your sexuality and sexual expression. This process of healing is particularly necessary when you were raised with a strict, religious background and experiences sexual trauma.
Counseling after religious and sexual trauma can help you develop into a more authentic, empowered person with a healthy, confident sense of sexual expression.
However, in counseling, you can understand the origins of your shame and guilt, challenge oppressive religious narratives, and cultivate self-compassion. In religious and sexual trauma therapy, you can get a safe place to let go of self-blame and step into confidence.
At Wisdom Within Counseling, you can embark on a transformative journey towards healing and sexual liberation. Breaking free from the shackles of sexual shame and guilt allows you to reclaim your personal agency, learn about body boundaries, and redefine your values. Rather than continuing to internally shame yourself, you can love yourself as you are.
Overcome victim-blaming and negative sexual messages in religious and sexual trauma therapy at Wisdom Within Counseling
In religious and sexual trauma therapy, you can begin the process of challenging victim-blaming narratives and think more positively about your trauma story. Thinking back to your childhood, you may have been told you shouldn’t enjoy sex, or that you shouldn’t have sex before marriage.
Maybe, your parents told you that pornography use would make you goto hell. As well, you may have been told that you would goto hell if you got pregnant or had sex before marriage.
Maybe, you were told that if you masturbated, you would grow hair on your palms. The religious figures and adults in your life may have told you and made you believe that you didn’t deserve sexual pleasure.
That sex was the root of all evil in the world. And, that sexual pleasure was devil-ish. You were told that asking questions about sex and talking about sex was taboo, dirty, and made your parents uncomfortable. Counseling at Wisdom Within can help you improve your marriage, learn to believe you are entitled to sexual pleasure, and create a consensual, meaningful, positive sex life.
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Religious and sexual trauma therapy at Wisdom Within Counseling helps survivors of trauma identify and overcome negative sexual beliefs
Perhaps, from a young age, you were told that your body was not yours, but your body was for your husband’s pleasure. You were told that you should “be a good wife,” which meant you could never say, “No,” when your spouse wanted to have sex.
And, you should looks happy at all times and “grin and bear it,” even when sex was and is painful for you. If you were told any of these strict, religious perspectives and beliefs, religious and sexual trauma therapy can help you take back you sexual power and confidence.
Negative beliefs around sexuality and sexual development in teen years can last into adulthood. You no longer have to stay a victim.
At Wisdom Within Counseling, you can explore pathways toward empowerment, sexual confidence and pleasure, self-love, and healing.
Religious and sexual trauma therapy can even help you explore your sexuality from a pleasure-based mindset, rather than service-based. You deserve to be in consensual, sexual realtionships where your body receives pleasure, rather than always having to give, give and give more to your spouse or partner.
Understanding Sexual Trauma and Religious Abuse In Religious and Sexual Trauma Therapy
What is the psychological toll of sexual trauma?
You can learn about the emotional and physical effects of trauma in religious and sexual trauma therapy at Wisdom Within Counseling.
When you are intimate or sexual, you may experience fight, flight, and freeze responses. When someone gently touches your shoulder, you may jump or get angry, thinking sexual trauma is occurring all over again. Sometimes, survivors of sexual and religious trauma develop out of body experiences.
To add, these experiences may also include disassociation. This is when you are having sex, but it feels like you are somewhere else mentally.
Your mind may not be able to be present during sex and intimacy. So, mindfulness and breathing techniques in religious and sexual trauma therapy can help you become more present during sexual experiences.
Do you avoid sex, stay quiet when sex is painful, or do you take part in high risk sexual behaviors?
After sexual trauma, you may decide that all sexual activity brings heartbreak or pain. You may stop having sex, or avoid sexual activity all together.
Due to sex having such a negative association from abuse, you may no longer have sexual desires. You might not even masturbate, and not feel sexual at all. You may think that you will get hurt or that you are dirty if you feel sexual, so you don’t.
On the other hand, you may indulge sexually, and become very promiscuous and hyper sexual. Sometimes, survivors of sexual and religious trauma may take part in high-risk sexual behaviors.
These may include having unprotected sex with multiple partners or getting into dangerous sexual experiences where injury can occur. Both are very common responses after experiencing sexual and religious trauma. At Wisdom Within Counseling, you can learn to create a healthy, loving relationship with your body, with sex, and heal after painful, trauma experiences.
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At Wisdom Within Counseling, religious and sexual trauma therapy can help you create the healthy sexual relationships you desire.
It may be difficult for you to become emotionally vulnerable with a sexual partner after sexual trauma.
As well, it can be hard to open up emotionally and trust after sexual trauma. After sexual and religious trauma, you may build an emotional wall, only have non-emotional sex, or friends with benefits.
Sex may not be an intimate or heartfelt experience for you due to these emotional walls. But, you may also want professional religious and sexual trauma therapy to build deeper relationships. Developing a deeper emotional connection may be one of your relationship goals. You may desire a long-term relationship, but right now, it may be difficult for you after religious and sexual trauma.
In religious and sexual trauma therapy at Wisdom Within Counseling, you can learn how the effects and symptoms of trauma are impacting you.
From religious and trauma counseling, you can begin deepening your trauma coping tools, know you deserve sexual pleasure, and begin creating more genuine, meaningful relationships.
Unfortunately, every time you go visit your family or think about your strict, religious upbringing, you may have a flood of trauma symptoms.
If one of your parents or relatives was your abuser, you may not want to visit your family around the holidays. There may be certain accommodations or support you need in place that you can talk about with your religious and sexual trauma therapist.
Maybe, you don’t want to go back to your childhood home because sexual violence to place there. So, you may need to advocate for having a holiday dinner at a local restaurant.
Boundaries can help you develop more confidence when you have been raised in a strict, religious upbringing. You may also want holistic trauma coping tools from therapy to prepare yourself for family visits around the holidays.
In counseling, you can learn to identify emotional triggers, improve conflict resolution skills with your partner, and build a loving, passionate sex life.
When you know you’ll have to be going back into a strict, religious culture, you may need religious and sexual trauma coping strategies to help protect your energy. At Wisdom Within Counseling, you can work with a team of trauma specialists to gain positive coping tools. Art, yoga, music, mediation, and holistic therapies can help you cope in trauma in a healthy way.
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Overcome negative gender roles and gender stereotypes in religious and sexual trauma therapy at Wisdom Within Counseling
Being raised in a strict, religious culture it means that you were also taught strict gender roles. To note, you may have been told that women should always be in service to their husband.
That, it is a woman’s responsibility to cook, clean, have it all together, and raise children. You may also have been taught that it’s a woman’s fault if her husband is unhappy sexually.
Counseling for religious and sexual trauma and abuse help you develop more of a voice. As well, you can become more open minded and confident when it comes to gender roles and break through these religious-based general stereotypes.
Part of healing after trauma may mean setting boundaries with a certain family members who may be stuck in these archaic gender roles and stereotypes too. At Wisdom Within Counseling, you can learn to set and maintain boundaries with people who trigger you, gain better self-worth tools, and create an erotic, passionate, pleasurable sex life.
After religious and sexual trauma and abuse, you may feel shame, guilt, and fear during sexual experiences.
Due to due to religious and sexual trauma and abuse, when you try to have sex, you may have a negative voice in your head. Negative messages may flood your mind during sex. After sex, you may feel shame, guilt, or anxiety. As well, you might feel self-conscious, insecure, or that you are doing something dirty when you want to enjoy sex.
Fear and anxiety around masturbation from a strict, religious upbringing, and religious and sexual trauma experiences
When it comes to masturbation, you may be afraid to touch your own body. Notably, negative beliefs about masturbation due to a strict religious upbringing may lead to shame and anxiety around masturbation.
As well, your sexual trauma experiences included being forced to watch someone else masturbate, you may avoid masturbation altogether. It’s normal to avoid things and experiences that you associate with sexual trauma.
At Wisdom Within Counseling, in religious and sexual trauma therapy, you can develop a strong voice and learn to speak up when sex is painful
As well, if sex is painful or uncomfortable, you might want to ask your partner to stop. You may feel torn and have inner conflict about speaking up.
However, you hear a voice in your head telling you that you should, “look happy, and grin and bear it.” Perhaps, religious and sexual trauma messages from adolescence taught you not to speak up during sex.
That, if you spoke up, you would be considered too needy or too sensitive. Sadly, you developed people pleasing parts of you as a result of religious and sexual trauma, and put yourself last. Women in particular develop a sense of internalized guilt and self-blame as a result of religious and sexual trauma.
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Religious and sexual trauma therapy can help you feel confidence and positive about wanting to speak up during sex.
Counseling for religious trauma and sexual abuse can help you know that speaking up is a sign of strength and resilience. You don’t have to suffer through painful sex. Due to religious and sexual trauma, when you are having sex, you may feel guilty or torn about enjoying sexual pleasure.
Counseling for religious trauma and sexual abuse can help you learn that you deserve sexual pleasure.
As well, you can understand and believe that your body deserves to be worshiped by your sexual partners. And, you can learn that your sexual partners should understand the importance of foreplay and how your body desires sexual pleasure.
Negative views around sexual orientation due to a strict, religious upbringing
Maybe, you were told that the only acceptable sexual orientation was to be straight. However, you might want to explore people of the same sex, transgender people, or people in all types of bodies. Maybe, your religious parents told you that were only allowed to date someone of the same religion or ethnicity as them.
But, you have always wanted to explore partners of different religions and different ethnicities. Counseling for religious and sexual trauma can help you break through and overcome some of these negative, limiting beliefs. Often, these beliefs have been pushed on you and anchored in your mind from a young age.
Many times, a strict religious and conservative upbringing leads women in particular to quiet their inner voice from adolescent years on. Counseling for religious trauma and sexual abuse can help you reconnect with your inner voice.
In counseling for religious trauma and sexual abuse, you can develop a sense of inner wisdom and reconnect to your intuition. You can learn to connect with your mind and body. Learning to harness your voice and utilize your voice can be a part of developing confidence in your sexuality.
Religious and sexual trauma therapy at Wisdom Within Counseling can stop the normalization of victim-blaming narratives.
At Wisdom Within Counseling, you can begin understanding that victim-blaming is unjust and harmful. You might need help in religious and sexual trauma therapy to stop blaming yourself for the abuse you experienced. As well, you may need to set healthy boundaries with any religious relatives or religious leaders that continue to blame you for what happened to you.
At times, the negative messages from religious upbringings lead survivors of sexual trauma to take on self-blame. It is never your fault for enduring sexual trauma and religious abuse.
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In religious and sexual trauma therapy at Wisdom Within Counseling, you can gain proper sexual health education.
Rather than believing fear-based and anxiety-based messages around sex, you can learn accurate sexual health information.
As well, you can learn that you are worthy of love and respect instead of blaming yourself. Counseling for religious abuse and sexual trauma can help you learn that you deserve sexual pleasure. You can come to believe that you deserve consensual, pleasurable sexual experiences. The fact that you have endured sexual abuse does not mean that you have to continue enduring abuse.
At Wisdom Within Counseling, religious and sexual trauma therapy can help you come to believe that you deserve respectful, loving relationships.
Even though, in your childhood and adolescence you experienced religious and sexual trauma, you can remember that you deserve respectful, loving relationships currently.
Your parents and caregivers may have been told negative, anxiety-based messages around sex for generations.
In religious and sexual trauma counseling, you can also better understand how your strict, religious upbringing had dynamics of power and control.
Religious leaders may have influenced your family and parents to believe that they could do no wrong. As well, if a religious leader sexually abused you, they use their power and control and manipulate you.
It is very common for religious leaders to use their role, power, and control to sexually abuse children, and get away with it. Often times, strict, religious leaders will use manipulative tactics to groom and sexually abuse children.
Not only do strict, religious leaders use manipulative tactics with children to lure them, but also with adults in the church. To note, religious leaders may use manipulative tactics to maintain control of their victims. Talking about your sexual trauma experiences in the confidential, safe offices of our religious and sexual trauma therapists can be healing.
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At Wisdom Within Counseling, religious and sexual trauma therapy can provide you with emotional validation
Your religious and sexual trauma therapist can remind you that the abuse you endured was not your fault. As well, religious and sexual trauma counseling can help you develop gentleness and compassionate energy for yourself. Your religious and sexual trauma therapist can help you reject specific religious teachings no longer align with who you are.
As well, there may a few aspects of your religious upbringing that you would like to continue to take with you on your journey of life. In religious and sexual trauma therapy, you can start to develop a sense of confidence around your sexuality. For the first time in your life, you can come to know that you deserve sexual pleasure and respectful, consensual sexual relationships.
In religious and sexual trauma therapy at Wisdom Within Counseling, learn to set boundaries
Often times, victims of sexual trauma and religious abuse need help setting and maintaining boundaries.
Boundaries allow you to focus on prioritizing yourself. You may habitually be a people pleaser or put other peoples needs before your own. Instead, religious and sexual trauma therapy at Wisdom Within Counseling reminds you to put yourself first.
As well, in religious and sexual trauma counseling, you can develop positive coping tools for when you do experience fight, flight, and freeze trauma responses.
Holistic, somatic, mind body therapies after religious abuse and sexual trauma
At Wisdom Within Counseling, holistic, somatic, mind-body therapies allow you to get more in touch with yourself. So, you can pick from art, meditation, yoga, music, and nature therapies. You can choose from a mixture of creative painting, watercolors, acrylic paints, and clay. Art in therapy can help you express your emotions through creativity. Additionally, music therapy, guitars, drums, and different instruments can help you express what you’re feeling beyond words.
Wisdom Within Counseling offers a variety of holistic, mind-body therapy is an addition to traditional talk counseling in religious and sexual trauma therapy.
And, in religious and sexual trauma therapy, you can develop a confident voice through music. More so, yoga, mindfulness meditation, and breathing skills can help you feel calm and centered. On that note, meditation and yoga therapy can include positive affirmations and body scans to help you feel relaxed. When you feel a sexual trauma trigger or anxiety coming on, you can use breathing techniques and mindfulness meditation skills outside of your session.
Religious and sexual trauma therapy at Wisdom Within Counseling can help you build a self-care toolbox. You can take part in positive coping skills right in session. As well, you can engage in activities that are self nurturing in religious and sexual trauma therapy. At Wisdom Within Counseling, you can learn to rethink the negative views that you were taught growing up. And, you can choose self-care activities and new viewpoints that support your emotional well-being.
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The Importance of Sexual Pleasure For Females After Trauma In Counseling
To add, the importance of addressing sexual pleasure for females after trauma in counseling cannot be overstated. Trauma can profoundly impact a woman’s sexuality.
Do you have low sexual desire or avoid sex due to past trauma?
Sexual trauma can lead to a range of sexual difficulties such as loss of sexual desire, low libido, pain during sexual activity, and disconnection from her body.
By acknowledging and prioritizing sexual pleasure in counseling, the team at Wisdom Within Counseling provide a safe and supportive space for female survivors to explore and reclaim their sexuality.
Our counselors recognize the connection between sexual pleasure and overall well-being In therapy, you can work on addressing sexual pleasure in counseling. Talking about sexual pleasure and prioritizing your empowers you, as a survivor, to heal your relationship with your body.
Also, through counseling, you can work to rebuild your self-esteem, and regain power and control over your sexual experiences.
Learning about sexual pleasure allows survivors of trauma to embark on a journey of self-discovery. Religious and sexual trauma therapy can help survivors of trauma identify and embrace their sexual desires and boundaries, and foster a sense of sexual empowerment and wholeness.
Our complex trauma counselors validate the importance of sexual pleasure as an aspect of your well-being and sexual trauma recovery.
By integrating discussions of sexual pleasure into trauma counseling, the team at Wisdom Within Counseling facilitate holistic healing.
Benefits of religious and sexual trauma therapy at Wisdom Within Counseling
For females who have endured sexual trauma and religious abuse within strict religious cultures, the path to healing may feel overwhelming and isolating without the professional help of the Wisdom Within Counseling religious and sexual trauma therapists.
Working with a religious and sexual trauma therapist, you can remember that the blame falls on your perpetrator. You should never blame yourself for traumatic experiences as a survivor.
Counseling can help you challenge and overcome victim blaming views and beliefs. Additionally, you can learn self compassion skills. You can learn how to create healthy, consensual, and pleasurable sexual experiences and realtionships that serve you.
Art, yoga, meditation, and music therapies can be effective, holistic approaches in religious and sexual trauma therapy
These holistic, somatic, mind body therapeutic modalities offer unique benefits in processing trauma, expressing emotions, and promoting healing. Holistic art, yoga, and music therapies for trauma offer a language beyond just talking for healing.
As well, art, yoga, and music therapies provide alternative means of expression when words may be insufficient or difficult to articulate. Engaging in creative, somatic, and mind body activities helps you express and release emotions that may be challenging to verbalize. To note, holistic therapies provide a safe and non-threatening outlet for releasing sexual abuse and religious trauma experiences.
Learn emotional regulation tools in religious and sexual trauma therapy
To add, trauma can disrupt emotional regulation, leading to difficulties in managing and understanding emotions. Art, yoga, and music therapy can help you regulate your emotions by providing a creative, holistic, structured, and supportive environment. These holistic, somatic, and mind body therapies offer techniques and activities that promote self-soothing, stress reduction, and emotional awareness.
Essentially, engaging in painting, art, yoga, and music therapies you to reclaim a sense of control and agency over your bodies and trauma experiences. Holistic, somatic therapies can help you make choices, experiment with different forms of expression, and discover your own strengths and abilities. Overall, holistic, mind body therapies promote a sense of empowerment after religious abuse and sexual trauma.
Trauma processing using art, yoga, music, and creative therapies in religious and sexual trauma therapy
Also, art, yoga, and music therapy provide opportunities for you to explore your trauma in a safe, controlled manner. Through creative expression, movement, and sound, you can gradually process your traumatic experiences. As well, you can gain insight, and work towards integrating your emotions and memories into a more positive narrative of your sexuality.
Religious and sexual trauma therapy at Wisdom Within Counseling can help you improve your self-reflection and self-discovery
Engaging in art, yoga, and music therapy at Wisdom Within Counseling encourages introspection and self-reflection. You can gain a deeper understanding of yourself and your trauma experiences. These holistic, somatic, mind body therapies promote self-discovery, self-compassion, and self-acceptance. In religious and sexual trauma therapy, you can develop a sense of resilience.
Body-based healing
To add, trauma is often stored in the body, leading to physical symptoms and sensations. Yoga therapy specifically focuses on the mind-body connection. As well, yoga therapy incorporates mindfulness, breathwork, movement, and mindfulness mediation practices.
You can learn to reconnect with your body and promote healing. Learning about body-based healing and embodiment can contribute to a sense of safety, grounding, and restoration.
Build coping skills and resilience in religious and sexual trauma therapy at Wisdom Within Counseling
Art, yoga, and music therapy provide you with tools and coping strategies that can be utilized beyond therapy sessions. These holistic, mind body, and somatic therapies offer skills in self-regulation, relaxation, mindfulness, and creative problem-solving.
Holistic therapies empower survivors of trauma to manage their emotions, reduce stress, and build resilience in their daily lives.
At Wisdom Within Counseling, you get to work with trained professionals who specialize in and have extra trainings art therapy, yoga therapy, or music therapy. In religious and sexual trauma therapy, you can gain effective, holistic guidance throughout your religious abuse and sexual trauma healing process.
To begin, book your phone consult to work with our family estrangement counseling specialists below.
Wisdom Within Counseling offer religious and sexual trauma counseling in Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansa, Louisiana, Tennessee, North Carolina, Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio, Maryland, Delaware, Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, New Hampshire, and Maine.
Where in Florida does Wisdom Within Counseling offer the speciality of religious abuse and sexual trauma counseling?
The Wisdom Within Counseling religious and sexual trauma counselors and therapists offer help in Miami, Orlando, Tampa, Jacksonville, St. Petersburg, Tallahassee, Fort Lauderdale, Hialeah, Port St. Lucie, Cape Coral, Pembroke, Pines, Hollywood, Miramar, Gainesville, Coral Springs, Clearwater, Palm Bay, Miami Gardens, Pompano Beach, West Palm Beach, Melbourne, Oviedo, Sarasota, Titusville, Cocoa, Cocoa Beach, Cape Canaveral, Merritt Island, Satellite Beach, Indian Harbour Beach, Indialantic, Melbourne Beach, Rockledge, Viera, Port St. John, Port Canaveral, Bradenton, Venice, Palmetto, North Port, Osprey, Nokomis, Englewood, Lakewood Ranch, Longboat Key, Siesta Key, Anna Maria Island, Miami Beach Coral Gables, Miami Shores, Aventura, Coconut Grove, Key Biscayne, Doral, Pinecrest, Kendall, Bal Harbour, Surfside, Sunny Isles Beach, North Miami Beach, Opa-locka, Homestead, Cutler Bay, Palmetto Bay, Orange Park, Fernandina Beach, Ponte Vedra Beach, St. Augustine, Atlantic Beach, Neptune Beach, Jacksonville Beach, Middleburg, Green Cove Springs, Callahan, Yulee, Macclenny, Baldwin, Glen St. Mary Hilliard, and Mims, Florida.
As well as Florida, the Wisdom Within Counseling team offers trauma therapy in Connecticut.
Religious and sexual trauma counseling counseling and complex trauma therapy at Wisdom Within Counseling is available in Bridgeport, New Haven, Hartford, Stamford, Waterbury, Norwalk, Avon, Granby, Danbury, New Britain, West Hartford, Greenwich, Meriden, Bristol, Manchester, West Haven, Milford, Stratford, East Hartford, Wilton, Redding, Middletown, Wallingford, Enfield, Orange, West Haven, Shelton, East Lyme, Mystic, Uncasville, Trumbull, Fairfield, Montville, New Haven, Derby, Ansonia, Woodbridge, Seymour, Hamden, East Haven, North Haven, Guilford, Clinton, Westbrook, Killingworth, Old Saybrook, Branford, Essex, Deep River, New London, Waterford, Chester, Old Lyme, Durham, North Branford, Haddam, East Haddam, Higganum, North Madison, Manchester, Wethersfield, Rocky Hill, Marlborough, Portland, Hebron, Bolton, South Windsor, East Hampton, Colchester, Cromwell, Newington, Berlin, Stonington, Torrington, Middletown, Connecticut.
Queer, lesbian, gay, and bisexual couples counseling after trauma
Queer, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and LGBTQIA+ couples may face unique challenges when seeking counseling after trauma.
To add, trauma can significantly impact individuals and their sex life in relationships. Couples counseling alongside individual therapy can be your safe, inclusive space. Wisdom Within Counseling offers an affirming space for LGBTQIA+ couples to address their trauma stories and talk about specific sexual needs.
Recognizing the intersectionality of their identities, our therapists approach LGBTQIA+ couples counseling with sensitivity and cultural awareness.
We understand the impact of heteronormativity, homophobia, biphobia, and transphobia on your experiences.
At Wisdom Within Counseling, you can talk about internalized shame or stigma. By providing an affirming environment, our therapists can help LGBTQIA+ couples navigate the effects of trauma, rebuild trust, enhance communication, and foster resilience within their relationships.
More over, Wisdom Within Counseling supports healing after sexual and religious trauma and helps LGBTQIA+ couples on their journey towards recovery and well-being.
At Wisdom Within Counseling, religious and sexual trauma therapy, supports resilience, confidence, and a positive view of your sexuality.
Sexual trauma is a loss of childhood and religious shame can lead to negative views around sexuality and sexual expression. Childhood is typically a time of innocence, vulnerability, and the exploration of the world with a sense of wonder and trust. However, if you had experiences of sexual trauma in your childhood, there was fear, confusion, anger, loss, and other painful emotions.
Due to religious abuse and sexual trauma, instead of learning about your body, boundaries, and healthy relationships in a safe and age-appropriate manner, you were forced into sexual experiences.
Repair trust in religious abuse and sexual trauma counseling
Childhood is a time when children rely on their caregivers and families for safety, protection, and trust. Sexual trauma and religious abuse violate this trust. Experiences of religious abuse and sexual trauma make you question your safety in the world, and have mistrust in relationships.
As well, religious and sexual trauma can lead to a loss of trust in adults and authority figures. Furthermore, religious and sexual trauma makes it challenging for many people to develop healthy relationships and build an intimate, sex life with security.
Counseling for religious and sexual trauma can help you understand how sexual trauma has disrupted developmental milestones of your childhood. Religious and sexual trauma can interfere with your ability to form healthy attachments, establish a positive self-image, and develop a healthy understanding of sexuality.
At Wisdom Within Counseling, you can see yourself as a survivor. As well, you get a safe, confidential place to talk about the long-lasting impacts of the religious abuse and sexual trauma you experienced.
You can learn to develop healthy, consensual, and sexually pleasurable relationships from religious and sexual trauma therapy at Wisdom Within Counseling.
From counseling for religious and sexual trauma, you can make choices that align with your own sexual desires and boundaries.
Wisdom Within Counseling helps you, as a survivor of trauma, regain a sense of safety, trust, and confidently connect to your sexuality.
As well, you can learn to reclaim your voice after trauma and abuse by knowing it is okay to speak up when sex is painful and uncomfortable.
