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Trauma & Recovery

Sexual Trauma Therapy

Trauma-informed support for healing after sexual harm

Healing after sexual trauma often requires care that feels safe, attuned, and grounded. Therapy can offer that space.

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When This Can Help
  • Past sexual trauma continues to affect your body or relationships
  • You carry shame, fear, or emotional overwhelm connected to what happened
  • You want support that feels gentle, clear, and trauma-informed
  • You are ready to heal at a pace that honors your safety
Support May Include
  • A steady, trauma-informed space for processing sexual harm
  • Support for regulation, boundaries, and self-trust
  • Healing work that respects consent and emotional pacing
Good Match For

Teens and adults

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What This Support Can Address

A clearer look at what people may be carrying when they reach out for this kind of care.

Sexual trauma can affect the body, relationships, identity, trust, and day-to-day regulation. The impact may show up through anxiety, shame, hypervigilance, emotional numbness, relationship difficulty, or a sense of being disconnected from yourself.

Our Approach

How we try to make care feel both skillful and genuinely human.

Our therapists approach sexual trauma work with deep respect for pace, consent, and nervous system safety. Therapy may include stabilization, body-based awareness, trauma processing, and restoring a stronger sense of choice and self-trust.

Therapists Connected to This Work

These clinicians have specialties or treatment approaches related to sexual trauma therapy.

Photo of Natalie Watson, Associate Marriage Family Therapist. Natalie is a therapist
        in San Luis Obispo providing therapy services with DeRose Therapy Group

Natalie Watson, AMFT

Associate Therapist

Photo of Marina Canella, Associate Marriage Family Therapist. Marina is a therapist
        in San Luis Obispo providing therapy services with DeRose Therapy Group

Marina Canella, AMFT

Associate Therapist

Photo of Claudia Kraake, Associate Marriage Family Therapist. Claudia is a therapist
        in San Luis Obispo providing therapy services with DeRose Therapy Group

Claudia Kraake, AMFT

Associate Therapist

Photo of Logan Rolle, Associate Professional Clinical Counselor. Logan is a therapist
        in San Luis Obispo providing therapy services with DeRose Therapy Group

Logan Rolle, APCC

Associate Therapist