The IT Programme is an 8 week* therapeutic, empowering and outcomes driven programme for male adult survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse (CSA)
*2 hours a week for 8 weeks group work with one to one sessions if necessary
One in six men are affected by Childhood sexual abuse
The programme covers the following areas:
- Journal work and recovery writing
- Perpetrators, power and protection
- Flashbacks and memories
- Active healing & developing healthier patterns
- Anger and grief management
- Inner child work
- Art and sensory therapy
This is an empowering, outcomes based programme that aims to deal specifically with the abuse that a man has survived and thereby increase his quality of life.
Some of the key outcomes we work towards include:
- Increasing self confidence
- Understanding anger
- Getting back into education or employment
- Reducing the dependency on 'peripheral' services
- Keeping survivor's own children safer
- Assisting survivors to be better parents
- Understanding the effects of abuse
- Developing healthier patterns