What can you expect from us?
Where sexual abuse is present, you should be assured that professional knowledge and expertise is available about sexuality and sexual abuse.
We are continually working to gain improved insights and collect data in order to provide insights into sexual abuse and to combat it – to be able to work in a preventive manner, and to obtain the best therapeutic result and recovery.
IONOI Traumasexology offers this active workspace to enable sexuality to regain its original place and value. Physically, psychologically and socially. In a safe environment where the experiences and the world of all our clients play a key role.
Our safe location offers this space for all our clients with a range of backgrounds and a unique view on this theme. Professionalism and experts through experience go hand in hand to collaborate and enter into discussions, but especially to focus their energy on achieving high-quality recovery from sexual abuse.
Here at IONOI Traumasexology, sexuality can be openly discussed, it is a fact and a continuum of development that nobody, no matter what their gender, religion or belief, can ignore.
Sexual abuse is a 24/7 social trauma that will never stop if we do little or nothing about it.
We occupy an independent position and we use this to identify bottlenecks, suggest possible solutions, as well as actively working towards achieving improvements. How you create safety in your body and mind, how you anticipate (possible) sexual abuse, how you take and bear responsibility yourself as victim, professional and perpetrator, how you communicate about (trauma) sexuality and how you are aware of your own patterns in relation to your actions with the other.
It’s important to know how you will learn to identify and acknowledge and tackle trauma sexuality. IONOI Traumasexology provides you with the essential knowledge, skills and methodologies about trauma sexuality.
We provide professional psychosocial support in coming to terms with and recovering from sexual abuse, and social care and coaching regarding this theme. In addition to this support of our clients, you can also expect information, education, training and support from IONOI Traumasexology for professionals and organizations.
Our motto is: sexual empowerment to repair abuse and to prevent it.
An innovative and inspiring program for victims, partners and professionals. From learning how to communicate to how communication works and learning how to use methodologies that you actually put into practice rather than just discuss.
IONOI Traumasexology can provide you with information, courses and methodologies.
Make use of the existing professional services from our network. Support that is essential for victims and professionals in the extremely complex procedure of processing sexual trauma and the processes of raising awareness. Gaining control of the consequences of disturbed and devastating sexual relations and developments experienced. We have at our disposal the skills to actively intervene in the source of every form of abuse. For victims, professionals and involved parties.
Sexual abuse
The moment
Damage
Consequences
Acknowledgment
Victims of sexual abuse and sexual violence include babies, children, men and women. For each one of these victims, the effect is different but always devastating.
Many victims experience doubts about what has happened to them: ‘Is it strange that I feel so bad?’, ‘Could I have done something to prevent it?’, ‘Should I talk to someone about it and will it make me feel worse if I do?’.
Sometimes, the memory itself has been repressed. Denial of sexual abuse and its consequences on your life is a common reaction.
From the moment of the actual abuse, your whole world is turned upside down, the lights go out. Sex without a choice is traumatic sex. This sex is not at all the same as ‘pure’ sexuality.
“Don’t exaggerate and don’t talk about it anymore. What was it anyway? Is it really so important that you have to talk about it?”
“Surely it can’t be why I feel so somber, powerless and empty?”
Occasionally, you come to realize the full impact of the severity of the situation, that sexual abuse runs through your life as a common thread.
And that it governs everything.
The damage done is enormous. And the physical reaction to coerced and non-consensual sex embeds your body like a virus. Your body never lies and will continue to react to the trauma.
Your body will continue to react to the moment of abuse as long as the secret of the sexual abuse is not exposed.
The damage is physical, often invisible, and psychologically you find yourself in a state of paraplegia. There is no longer a pure connection with your own identity in development, thanks to the imposed identity and will of the perpetrator.
Invisibly paralyzed and inextricably linked with the trauma, your body continues to react to it.
The consequences of sexual abuse are overwhelming and vary per individual. However, there are some common characteristics.
The forms of expression such as addictions to too much or no sex at all, drugs, alcohol, fetishes, aggression or extreme pacifism, ‘pleasing’ behavior, limitless support, narcistic, denial, domestic violence, depression, stress, physical complaints, complaints that the medical world do not understand… effect piled on effect and how do you identify the true cause? How can you break through this stubborn pattern, and with what?
Just never put an equals sign between them ……
-Distrust and loyalty conflicts
-Difficulty setting boundaries
-Distorted sexual development
-Aversion to oneself
-Physical complaints
-Psychological complaints
-Health complaints
-Relationship problems
-Religious conflicts
Acknowledgment of yourself and by others.
What should have happened or what should there have been to prevent the silence about sexual abuse from lasting so long?
A social question that involves us all.
Acknowledgment of sexual abuse is necessary in order to take steps towards recovery.
Caution, becoming aware, knowledge and expertise, experts through experience are, among other things, pillars of acknowledgment.
Economizing, indifference or not including sexuality and sexual abuse in the basic education of school and training is a trap in which the price will be too high for everyone.
Sexual abuse
Victims of sexual abuse and sexual violence include babies, children, men and women. For each one of these victims, the effect is different but always devastating.
Many victims experience doubts about what has happened to them: ‘Is it strange that I feel so bad?’, ‘Could I have done something to prevent it?’, ‘Should I talk to someone about it and will it make me feel worse if I do?’.
Sometimes, the memory itself has been repressed. Denial of sexual abuse and its consequences on your life is a common reaction.
The moment
From the moment of the actual abuse, your whole world is turned upside down, the lights go out. Sex without a choice is traumatic sex. This sex is not at all the same as ‘pure’ sexuality.
“Don’t exaggerate and don’t talk about it anymore. What was it anyway? Is it really so important that you have to talk about it?”
“Surely it can’t be why I feel so somber, powerless and empty?”
Occasionally, you come to realize the full impact of the severity of the situation, that sexual abuse runs through your life as a common thread.
And that it governs everything.
Damage
The damage done is enormous. And the physical reaction to coerced and non-consensual sex embeds your body like a virus. Your body never lies and will continue to react to the trauma.
Your body will continue to react to the moment of abuse as long as the secret of the sexual abuse is not exposed.
The damage is physical, often invisible, and psychologically you find yourself in a state of paraplegia. There is no longer a pure connection with your own identity in development, thanks to the imposed identity and will of the perpetrator.
Invisibly paralyzed and inextricably linked with the trauma, your body continues to react to it.
Consequences
The consequences of sexual abuse are overwhelming and vary per individual. However, there are some common characteristics.
The forms of expression such as addictions to too much or no sex at all, drugs, alcohol, fetishes, aggression or extreme pacifism, ‘pleasing’ behavior, limitless support, narcistic, denial, domestic violence, depression, stress, physical complaints, complaints that the medical world do not understand… effect piled on effect and how do you identify the true cause? How can you break through this stubborn pattern, and with what?
Just never put an equals sign between them ……
-Distrust and loyalty conflicts
-Difficulty setting boundaries
-Distorted sexual development
-Aversion to oneself
-Physical complaints
-Psychological complaints
-Health complaints
-Relationship problems
-Religious conflicts
Acknowledgment
Acknowledgment of yourself and by others.
What should have happened or what should there have been to prevent the silence about sexual abuse from lasting so long?
A social question that involves us all.
Acknowledgment of sexual abuse is necessary in order to take steps towards recovery.
Caution, becoming aware, knowledge and expertise, experts through experience are, among other things, pillars of acknowledgment.
Economizing, indifference or not including sexuality and sexual abuse in the basic education of school and training is a trap in which the price will be too high for everyone.
