Sexual Assault

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Hudson Wilkins, MA, LPCC

9 Strategies To Help A Loved One Reclaim Their Agency After Trauma

To have Agency is to have access to choices, control over your actions, and to have a belief that you can choose to act in ways that are...

Hudson Wilkins, MA, LPCC

7 Lessons On Keeping Hope Alive While Healing From Sexual Assault

If it doesn’t go perfectly, and according to plan then it’s happening all wrong. If it isn’t coming easy then I must not be good enough....

Hudson Wilkins, MA, LPCC

5 Ways To Help Your Loved One Endure Healing From Sexual Assault

When it comes to healing from sexual violence there is no such thing as a quick fix. There are no late night infomercials holding the...

Hudson Wilkins, MA, LPCC

9 Realistic Expectations About Sexual Assault You Need to Know to Support a Survivor

There’s a common saying among folks who are experienced in supporting sexual assault survivors: “If you don’t know someone who has...

Hudson Wilkins, MA, LPCC

Don’t Rape – The Title to a Book We Don’t Read to Our Children

There are certain things that most of us get taught as children. To name a few - Don’t kill. Don’t steal. Don’t cheat. Don’t rape. Not...

Hudson Wilkins, MA, LPCC

Being There – Effectively Supporting Your Loved One to Heal from Sexual Assault

It’s a world-wide epidemic. Everyone I have ever cared about has been impacted in some way by sexual violence. Everyone you have ever...