Stories
Learn more about how Survive helps survivors of rape, sexual assault or child sexual abuse.

When I look in the mirror I can now really see myself again – it has taken more than 15 years to do this. Survive’s EMDR therapy has changed my life.

Life is a journey. The work done with Survive significantly eased the burden I felt and helped me move on in my journey forward.

I was referred to Survive by my mental health social worker. I had become too ill to work.

I enjoyed my work with my church. As a lady in my 70s, I also enjoyed the compliments received from one of the priests.

I was in my 40s when I reached crisis point and was unable to function. My trauma was so intense and severe that I had blocked it out.

I was a well-respected and hard-working professional yet I found it difficult to like myself. I could not tolerate anything I perceived as a mistake.

I was seven when I went to visit a friend of my parents. He sexually abused me before offering me some of his wife’s jewellery.
