For Sexual Assault Survivors

Happy Endings

A trauma‑informed pathway for survivors cultivating desire, consent, and self‑authority

A one‑on‑one healing experience rooted in a six‑step, research‑supported framework designed to help survivors of sexual assault reconnect with their bodies, their desires, and their agency.

You cannot give meaningful consent if you do not know your desires.

Most survivors of sexual assault aren’t taught this. They’re taught to focus on boundaries, safety, and saying “no” — but not on the internal compass that makes consent possible in the first place. And when trauma responses take over, desire often goes quiet. It becomes hard to locate, hard to trust, or completely inaccessible.

This work is part of my final graduate project and the beginning of my next chapter as a practitioner.

The Six‑Steps

1. Proud Flesh

Proud flesh is a medical term that refers to the overgrowth of granulation tissue that protrudes above the level of the surrounding skin, interfering with normal wound closure. This metaphor of “proud flesh,” this step examines how overdeveloped protective strategies can become barriers to desire and agency. Understanding the protective strategies that once kept you alive — and gently exploring how they may now limit connection, desire, and self‑attunement.

Without inner change, there can be no outer change. Without collective change, no change m

2. Grief

This stage acknowledges losses related to safety, innocence, bodily trust, and the capacity to explore desire in conditions of security. Grief work helps integrate these losses and supports the reconstruction of a coherent sense of self. Honoring the losses: safety, innocence, bodily trust, and the versions of yourself you didn’t get to grow into.

3. Attunment

As trauma defenses soften, the nervous system begins to regulate more consistently, creating space for presence to return. This stage is about gently re‑entering the body and rebuilding an internal sense of safety. Attunement becomes possible — a renewed capacity to listen to the mind, body, nervous system, emotions, and the deeper layers of self and soul. Here, sensation, curiosity, creativity, and connection can re‑emerge, allowing survivors to meet themselves with greater openness and ease, and early reawakening of desire.

4. Desire

When regulation improves, survivors can interpret bodily signals with more clarity and trust. This stage supports the exploration of authentic preferences and self‑directed curiosity through structured, inviting survivors to fill the space once occupied by trauma with experiences that support pleasure, meaning, and self‑attunement, and embodied practices. This stage supports exploring desire as agency — not threat. Reclaiming your preferences, your voice, your aliveness.

5. Consent

Without knowing ones desires creates meaningful consent, which requires access to one’s own desires, boundaries, and internal signals. Practicing consent as an embodied, internally guided process rooted in clarity, boundaries, and choice. This stage emphasizes clarity, agency, and the ability to differentiate genuine choice from trauma‑driven responses.

6. Receiving

Allowing in care, affirmation, pleasure, and support. Receiving as a powerful act of agency and healing. This final stage supports the development of openness, trust, and the capacity to tolerate vulnerability. Research on post‑traumatic growth highlights receiving as a transformative marker of healing, signaling restored relational and embodied wellbeing

What Individual Sessions Look Like

Each session is shaped by empowered choice and voice, honoring your pace and your body’s wisdom.

Commitment to 6–10 individual sessions
Online
1–2 hours per session, depending on your availability
Mon–Thurs scheduling
Each session includes:
- A brief intake & assessment of your capacity to guide the session
- Somatic practices
- Move through the six-steps
- Collaborative preparation
- A session shaped by your voice, needs, and boundaries
- Reflection on what supported you and what could shift next time

This is relational, co‑created work. You remain the expert of your body.

Pricing
(This is a one‑time price; it will increase after the offer ends)

$88 per hour (after this offer it will be $150)
6‑session package: $488 (you save $40)
10‑session package: $822 (you save $58)

If you’re curious but unsure, I offer a free 30‑minute call to explore whether this work is the right fit.

When filling out the form mention free 30-min in the information box.