Many clients at Phoenix have a fear of being touched intimately so part of trauma therapy is about developing safe boundaries, enabling clients to be comfortable in their own bodies, and processing childhood sexual abuse memories so they are empowered and have good self-worth. However, there are also clients that present with concerns of compulsive […]
Senior Counsellor, Claudia Da Silva working from home delivering E-Service I would like to share my experiences in the pandemic times from a therapist perspective: I had so many questions and curiosities about how to work with traumatised clients in the online setting. How would the e-sessions affect my clientele? How would the organization manage […]
Judith Herman, one of the pioneers of trauma treatment, has been quoted saying, “It’s bad enough that our clients lost their childhood; it’s unacceptable that they lose their adulthood too.” Being overwhelmed by anxiety, anger or upset can be a regular occurrence for clients at Phoenix. Intellectually a person who is a survivor of child […]
Phoenix is delighted to have entered into a collaboration with Kayelene Kerr to work in the prevention space and raise community awareness about the emerging epidemic of children accessing pornography at earlier ages, and to some degree using this as a form of sex education. Unfortunately, the violence, aggression, and objectification portrayed in much of […]
