A trauma-informed, culturally responsive program empowering survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV) through healing, education, and self-empowerment.
Program Overview
- Duration: 26 weeks
- Format: Individual-45min | Group-1.5 hours
- Safe & Confidential: Professional & peer support in a non-judgmental space
Core Topics
- Intimate Partner Violence Victim Safety Planning
- Power & Coercive Control dynamics in abusive relationships
- Equality Wheel & Personal Bill of Rights
- Asking for help & setting boundaries
- Identifying Red Flags in Relationships
- Learned Helplessness & Cognitive Dissonance
- Betrayal Trauma & Betrayal Blindness
- Impact on self worth, identity and decision-making
- Neurobiology of trauma & recognizing trauma responses (fight, flight, freeze, fawn)
- Barriers to leaving abusive relationships
- Identify negative patterns of intergenerational trauma, and adverse childhood experiences
- Managing PTSD symptoms & triggers
- Legal rights & community resources
Therapeutic Approach
- Transtheoretical Model of Behavior Change (TTM): Recognizing the stages survivors go through when leaving an abusive relationship
- Trauma-Informed Care: Prioritizing safety, empowerment, and choice
- Psychoeducation & Peer Support: Learning through shared experiences
- Understanding Personality Disorders: Addressing narcissism, borderline personality disorder, psychopathy, and sociopathy to manage manipulative behaviors, emotional regulation, and relational dynamics
- Gottman's Offender Typologies: Typology of men who batter women (i.e Pitbulls & Cobras)
- Attachment Theory: Exploring Bowlby’s framework on relational bonds
- Somatic & Mindfulness-Based Healing: Grounding techniques for emotional regulation