Description
Men & Healing Individual Therapy is for men who are on a journey of recovery from childhood sexual and/or physical abuse. Sessions will take place one-on-one with a Trauma therapist.
While Men & Healing Individual Therapy does not have a set curriculum, participants should expect to receive the following awareness and skills training:
- Contain post-traumatic stress
- Manage regression and flashbacks
- Integrate childhood memories
- Express anger, shame, fear and other feelings safely
- Address the impact that the trauma has on family relationships
- Mourn one’s losses
- Take responsibility for one’s behaviour
- Become more aware of one’s body and breathing
- Practice self care, curb self injury and befriend the body
- Develop and share a testimony describing the impact of the abuse
- Practice trust building and develop mutual support
- Integrate issues of sexuality and sexual expression
- Rediscover fun and joy in life