Therapy for Abuse
Abuse can leave you questioning your memory, your judgement, and your right to feel safe. It may have happened in a family, a relationship, a workplace, a school, or another setting where someone had power over you.
Counselling with Moffat is not about forcing you to retell everything at once. The work starts with safety, choice, and helping you understand what the experience has done to your body, confidence, boundaries, and relationships.
How this can show up
- Feeling responsible for what happened, even when you were not at fault
- Finding it hard to trust people or relax around them
- Panic, anger, numbness, shame, or sudden emotional shutdown
- Avoiding places, people, or conversations that bring the memories back
- Doubting your own version of events
What counselling with Moffat can focus on
Moffat helps you slow the story down and separate what happened from the blame you may have been carrying. Sessions can focus on rebuilding a sense of safety, noticing triggers, and learning how to set boundaries without feeling cruel or selfish.
If you are still in danger, counselling should not be your only support. A safety plan, trusted people, legal help, medical care, or emergency services may be needed first.
Starting sessions
You can start gently. The first session can be used to name what has been happening, what feels unsafe now, and what support would help you take the next step.