Therapy for Sexual Assault Survivors
You don't have to know exactly what you want to talk about—or be ready to tell your entire story—to begin therapy.
I provide individual therapy for adult survivors of sexual assault who may be navigating the emotional, relational, and long-term impact of what they've experienced.
Therapy can be a space to process at your own pace, without pressure to talk about anything before you're ready.
In-person therapy in hermosa beach +
virtual therapy throughout California
You Get to Move at
Your Own Pace
There isn't one “right” way to respond to sexual assault or one timeline for healing. You may want to talk about what happened, or you may not.
You may be seeking therapy soon after an experience or years later. You may even be coming to therapy for relationships, anxiety, self-esteem, or something else and beginning to recognize ways a past experience continues to affect you.
Therapy doesn't have to mean recounting every detail of what happened. My role is to meet you where you are and create space for you to explore what feels important to you.
The Impact Can Show Up in Different Ways
Sexual assault can affect people differently, and its impact isn't always obvious from the outside. Survivors may experience changes in their sense of safety, trust, relationships, boundaries, self-esteem, anxiety, or the way they relate to themselves and others.
Some people experience shame or self-blame. Others may question their own reactions, minimize what happened, or wonder why something continues to affect them long afterward. There is no single response that determines whether an experience was significant or whether you “should” be struggling with it.
My Approach to Working
With Survivors
My approach is warm, relational, and collaborative. I believe you should have a choice in what we talk about, how quickly we move, and what you want your therapy to focus on.
I won't push you to share details you're not ready to discuss or assume that your experience has affected you in a particular way. Instead, we'll explore what's showing up for you now and work together toward the changes that feel meaningful to you.
My goal is to create a space where you feel genuinely heard and supported while helping you reconnect with your own voice, needs, boundaries, and sense of self.
Why This Work Matters
to Me
Supporting survivors is an area of my work that is deeply personal and meaningful to me. I am also a survivor of sexual assault, and my own experience ultimately became part of what led me to advocacy and speaking about sexual assault, mental health, and supporting survivors.
For more than 10 years, I've spoken with students and communities about difficult mental health and advocacy topics, including sexual assault prevention and survivor support.
Today, I bring both lived experience and my clinical perspective as a therapist to this work. I know that no two survivors' experiences are the same, and my experience is not your experience. My role isn't to assume I know how you feel because of what I've been through; it's to create space for your experience and what healing or moving forward means to you.
