Sexual Abuse Healing & Skills Support Group

~This group is designed for people who hold a socially-conscious and progressive framework and identify as female, non-binary, cisgender, or queer (i.e., lesbian, bisexual, pansexual, asexual, etc.).

• Meet with like-minded survivors of sexual abuse.
• Share healing stories, successes, strengths, and challenges.
• This group combines skill-building, listening, giving and receiving support, setting goals, and homework.
• Share, support, learn, and hold space with others who “just get it.”
• Everyone’s process is respected and supported.
• Non-judgmental coaching skills group.
• Confidential.
• I recommend that group members be in individual counseling while they are in the group. I will ask you to sign a Release of Information Form so that I may connect with your provider.

We strive to be an anti-racist, socially conscious, feminist, queer-affirming, strengths-based, trauma-informed, and sex-positive space. The group balances differences regarding neurodiversity and introverted and extroverted personalities.

Sexual Abuse Group Meeting time: Wednesdays, 430-6 pm CST

Fee: The intake appointment is free. The meetings are $60/session, and two sliding fee slots are available. Out-of-pocket pay.

Contact Irene Greene for information or to be added to the waiting list. 

Flyer: Sexual-Abuse-Group-Flyer-Greene

Common Topics and Themes

• Define what your healing journey looks like for you • Identify your strengths and build awareness for how to integrate them into your change and growth process • Claim your tenacity and commitment to healing • Move from Victim to Survivor to Thriver • Build awareness between the past and the present. • Identify the differences between fear-based decisions and values-based decisions • Increase self-confidence and self-compassion.

• Increase connection and reduce isolation • Discuss how the intersections of oppression, injustice, inequity, rape culture, racism, capitalism, classism, sizeism, and heteropatriarchy impede personal and collective healing • Build understanding of how self-care and self-love are directly related to personal and community healing. 

• Identify and address your triggers • Explore your default reactions of Fight, Flee, Freeze, Fawn, and Fade, and gain skills to move into the more grounded response of Face • Emotional and physical regulation skills • Increase internal safety • Strategies to self-soothe • Identify your unhealthy coping strategies, and develop healthier ones • Learn healthier boundaries in relationships: “co-dependency vs. inter-dependency,” “caretaking vs. caring for.” Build discernment about what you can and cannot control.

• Identify the impacts of the abuse on sexuality, sexual and gender identities • Identify the impacts of abuse patterns on romantic and sexual relationships • Consent and sexual boundaries • Improve your relationship with your body, i.e., shame, disgust, trust, dissociation, body image. 

• Joy, gratitude, and celebration. Track, acknowledge, and celebrate your progress.

Format: A mix of topics, lectures, discussions, sharing, strategies, skill-building, coaching, handouts, worksheets, resources, and homework. 

Group members are invited to share their healing journey homework through mediums that work for them, such as talking, story-telling, poetry, deck presentation, art, and music.

Structure: The group meets weekly on Zoom for 90 minutes and 14 consecutive weeks (except holidays). After the first 14 weeks, members have the option of re-upping for another 14 weeks. | Up to 9 members | Confidential.

This group is not a group to share the specific details of abuse or trauma memories or process the deeper emotional therapy-related work commonly related to trauma healing. Irene recommends that group members work with a mental health provider one-on-one to guide them through that part of their abuse healing journey. 

Free 30-minute consultation: A Zoom intake appointment is required to ensure that the group meets prospective group members’ needs and vice versa.

For General Information about Irene’s Support Groups

The Group is designed and facilitated by Irene Greene, MSED. she/her. A seasoned national group facilitator, mental health provider, LGBTQPIA+ relationship coach, national family conflict coach, and national educator. Over the past twenty-five years, Irene has created and facilitated dozens of groups and trainings on a variety of topics: sexual and physical trauma abuse healing, coming out, general support, COVID-related self-care for medical and helping professionals, isolation and grief, White allyship, moral injury, burnout, compassion fatigue, and wellness. Based in Minneapolis, MN.

Examples of organizations Irene has trained and facilitated: Regions Hospital, St. Paul, MN; Denver Health Medical Center, Denver, Colorado; Anatomy Bequest Program, University of Minnesota; MN LGBTQ+ Therapists’ Network; Headway Emotional Health Services, Twin Cities; The University of Minnesota Advising Program: Office of Undergraduate Education; Telling Queer History, Twin Cities; BECAUSE Conference, St. Paul; The University of Minnesota Department of Earth Sciences; Travis County Texas Prosecutor’s Office, Austin Tx; Way to Grow, MN; State Conference for Headway MN; MN Coalition of Sexual Abuse Programs; MN Department of Corrections; Anti-racism Coalition, New York City; MN United Way; MN Coalition of Domestic Violence; Northstar Street Medics of MN; The Minnesota Aliveness Project; The Family Tree Clinic, Minneapolis, MN; MN Women in Psychology; Touchstone Mental Health, Minneapolis, MN; OutFront-MN.

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To learn about the individual and relationship, group, and training services Irene offers or to schedule your complimentary 30-minute consultation, contact Irene Greene