Survive is the only specialist sexual violence agency in York and North Yorkshire accredited by the Survivors’ Trust, meaning we work to National Service Standards for delivery of services to survivors of sexual violence.

Survive also adheres to British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) Ethical Framework for Counselling Professions meaning we work ethically (embrace values, principles, personal moral qualities) and adopt good practice (put clients first​, work to professional standards etc).

We deliver specialist services and trauma-specific interventions that help adult survivors of rape, sexual assault and child sexual abuse heal, rebuild and thrive. We help survivors:

• improve their mental health by reducing their psychological distress and trauma symptoms – including reduction in guilt, shame, self-blame
• develop skills and strategies to recognise and respond to triggers or intrusive memories
• recognise needs for self-care and emotional self-regulation
• make sense of trauma symptoms
• connect with internal strengths, external resources and build on strategies that help them feel more in control of lives and safer in the here and now
• cope and recover from what happened, move forward with their lives and thrive.

We help survivors cope and recover from what happened to them; help reduce their psychological distress and trauma symptoms – including reduction in guilt, shame and self-blame. We give survivors hope for a better future.