Let’s Talk About Sex: With Survivors of Sexual Abuse – Rebecca Mitchell

This workshop is aimed to look at how we can support Survivors in their journeys towards having a healthy relationship with their sexuality after the trauma of experiencing sexual abuse.

We will be looking at sexual ambivalence, the confusion around pleasure, tackling triggers, and working towards a healthy sex model. We will also be looking in a gentle way at our own early learnings around sex and what we might want to hold onto and what we might want to let go of.

Learning Objective Participants Can Expect From This Event

• Gaining understanding on the ambivalence, sexual confusion and misplaced guilt Survivors may feel around sex and sexuality.

• Psycho-education and tools we can pass on to support to our clients (where appropriate) to support and empower them in their journey.

• An opportunity to explore our own feelings around our early learnings around sexuality and how this may impact us today in our work in order to set them aside where appropriate

Who is This Workshop Appropriate For?

• Counsellors working with people who have experienced sexual abuse or people with lived experience of sexual abuse if they are in a place of stability.

How May This Workshop Impact Your Practice?

• The workshop will give information, tools for participants, space to reflect in order to gain confidence and skill around working with Survivors and other client groups around sex and sexuality.

RECORDING

This workshop will be recorded and you can use the ticket function to pre-purchase the recording before the event. This will be useful for colleagues who are not able to attend the event live and also for those who attend the event live and want to watch it again.

ZOOM

This workshop will be hosted on the Zoom meeting platform where we will use our cameras and microphones to interact with each other as a group.

SELF-SELECT FEE

The self-select fee is a radical inclusion policy to open learning for all colleagues. The guide price for this event is £20.00, however, we appreciate that income varies greatly in different locations and circumstances. Please contribute what you can to help us maintain inclusive professional training.

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All the colleagues at ONLINEVENTS and the presenters we collaborate with are committed to working in a manner consistent with the BACP Ethical Framework, which can be accessed on the link below. When registering for this event you are agreeing to be present and interact in a manner that is consistent with this Framework.

https://www.bacp.co.uk/events-and-resources/ethics-and-standards/ethical-framework-for-the-counselling-professions/

Rebecca Mitchell

Rebecca co-founded Into the Light Counselling and Support For Survivors CIC in 1993 coming out of her own experiences of sexual abuse and violence. Since then she has all the written materials for the groups and workshops and facilitated this in London and on line. She is qualified as a Group Facilitator and a one to one Counsellor.

She has also worked effectively with victims of domestic violence and in a variety of counselling settings. Rebecca has facilitated seminars and training for other counsellors to work with Survivors in many counselling services including Sutton Women’s Centre, Metro LGBTQ Plus Service, Metropolitan University Counselling Service and ROSA in Rugby. Rebecca has had articles published in several publications on Sexual Abuse and related topics including the BACP magazines “Therapy Today” and “BACP Private Practice Magazine”.

She has spoken on live radio and at conferences and community and youth groups on issues around sexual abuse and relationships. She has also written a book for both survivors and counsellors on recovering from sexual abuse called “New Shoes” published by Lion Hudson and has been nominated for Cosmopolitan Magazine Campaigner of the year.

Website | www.intothelight.org.uk