Express. Transform. Heal. A Group for Survivors of Sexual Trauma

The group will meet for six consecutive weeks, every Wednesday from 12:00 PM-1:30PM, beginning October 15, 2025.Session dates are as follows:10/15, 10/22, 10/29, 11/5, 11/12, & 11/19

In this group, we will integrate art-making, movement, music, poetry, and mindfulness techniques with talk therapy. The group provides a safe, therapeutic, and nurturing space to deepen your healing process, while also experiencing the connection and support of other survivors.

Together, we will create a diverse community rooted in hope, joy, and renewed life. With compassionate guidance, the survivor group will encourage self-care while offering creative tools to transform and heal trauma. With the creative process at the core of the experience, this group promotes authentic self-expression.

Group members should be able to attend all 6 sessions.

“The task of therapy is not to eliminate suffering but to give a voice to it, to find a form in which it can be expressed. Expression is itself transformation; this is the message that art brings.”—Stephen Levine

The group will consist of 6–10 members. You will actively participate in the art of holding space, honoring your power, and feeling support during your journey toward healing. This group offers the opportunity to see and be seen—through active listening, gentle and brave sharing. Together, we will create a community of empowerment and compassion.

Wisdom of Survivors

“I loved quietly making art within a community of people who have been through what I have. I also found meditating with people who shared my pain was healing.”

“During the creation process and while sharing with my group, I was able to more fully process what had happened to me. Having a safe, judgment-free space to explore my experience made a profound difference in my healing."

I'm not a professional artist, but creating art during this journey helped me release a great deal of self-judgment and guilt. It allowed me to see more clearly that what happened was not my fault—that the wrongs were done to me by others. That shift was incredibly freeing.”

“I will always be a survivor. I cannot erase what happened to me. But with my experience in art therapy group, I feel I am not alone, it wasn't my fault, and I can always take paint to paper when I feel a darkness inside.”

“That while my story is unique, my pain is not individual, and I have sisters who know this part of me and can help hold it—can help free me from it. I feel lighter now—I went from being able to count on three fingers the number of people who truly know my story to not having enough fingers to be able to do so, and that is a power and freedom that goes beyond words.”

Once formed, the circle becomes a container for truth-telling and sacred witnessing, healing and transformation.

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