Tools for Healing: Healing through Groups

Our groups create environments and spaces tailored to connecting survivors to other survivors. We center our group content around approaches and practices aimed at healing from sexual assault trauma. We believe that groups provide survivors with an opportunity to be validated. Being part of a group can help you: 

• Know that you are not alone 

• Express your feelings in a space with others experiencing similar trauma

• Gain helpful information on post-traumatic symptoms and resources towards combating them & healing. 

• Improve your interpersonal-effectiveness to be in healthy, respectful, and meaningful relationships 

• Improve your ability and sense of self to  foster and create new relationships with family, friends, and community that inspires 

• Gain hope

• Reduce symptoms of trauma

• Increase an understanding of yourself and the ways trauma has affected you

• Help others 

• Access services that are of high quality with minimal financial barriers

• Deepen relationships with others and learn how to trust

Trauma has the ability to alter the way we relate to ourselves, our surroundings, and others; We recognize the symptoms of trauma and understand the importance of providing community space to engage in topics of healing with other survivors. As follows are brief overviews of our groups, groups marked * are currently on hold as we refocus the group process/mission. If you would like to be added to the waitlist or information when these are open please email 

If you have any questions about the groups the RRC offers, please refer to the information as follows, emails are provided as a way to connect with the staff in charge of a group. *These groups are currently on hold as we refocus the group process/mission. If you would like to be added to the waitlist or information when these are open .

• Connections Group

• Grupo de Apoyo

• Wise Mind-Led

• Women’s Process Group

  • This group is open to all self-identifying women. The group aims to foster support, advocate for oneself, and share vulnerabilities. We hope to create a space to increase confidence and deepen self-understanding.

• Healing Arts Group

  • This group is open to all genders. Members are invited to engage in a playful curiosity with the use of art and other creative expressions. In this group, we will incorporate mindfulness, awareness, and other approaches to reconnect with the self.

• *Women of Color Support Group

  • A support group aimed to build connections between Women of Color* impacted by sexual violence, and to provide support to each other as we navigate (re)traumatization from invalidating and oppressive environments. For more information on how to be on the waitlist please contact Cristina. 

• *Men’s Process Group- Led by Camie Oka, LCSW c.oka@raperecoverycenter.org

  • This group is for self-identifying men who have been impacted by sexual violence and abuse.

The group aims to provide support in connection with others. Group discussions focus on relationships, developing a deeper understanding of the self, and the complexities of being a male survivor. For more information on how to be on the waitlist please reach out to Camie.