SUPPORT NETWORK
At Shushbox we understand that everybody's healing experience is personal and unique to their own journey. What works for one person might not necessarily work for another. When it comes to women’s health, it can also be difficult in knowing where to go or who to trust. 'Shushbox Recommends' is a curated selection of therapists, educators and researchers supporting the survivor community. Click the profiles below to find out more information and book an introductory call with our friends.
Yasmin Elzomor is a certified relationship + transformational coach and podcast host. Her
mission is to help people heal their wounds and transform their love life. Yasmin loves bridging the gap between
science and grounded spirituality in her practice and
empowers her clients to understand themselves on a deeper level.
Betsy Perez is a Sensual Writing Doula and Integrative Sex Educator who hosts many workshops and support sessions focused on an array of topics. Her work typically centres on 'Sexual Reparenting' and rehabilitatig our sensual self after abuse.
Sequoia Satori is a certified Kundalini Yoga teacher, Reiki practitioner, Sound Healer, Active Meditation Facilitator and Sacred Sexuality Coach. In her ongoing spiritual quest, Sequoia has become passionate about plant medicines, ancient wisdom, and anchoring light on earth.
Dr. Candice Cooper-Lovett is a licensed marriage and family therapist and sex therapist. She is also a consultant, writer, and AAMFT Clinical Fellow & Approved Supervisor. Dr. Cooper-Lovett has over 15 years of experience working with individuals, couples, and families.
Toxic Relationship Awareness & Healing Specialist
Sexual Empowerment Coach
Vaginismus Specialist
Mindful Sex Coach
Portia is a sex coach who helps women become more present and find their power through pleasure. Her expansive sex coaching methods employ mindfulness and ritual to help you reconnect and discover your deepest “YES!” Portia's work will take you to the root: The root of all the narratives you have about yourself, about sex and about pleasure.
Dr. Heidi Brocke is a Toxic Relationship Awareness & Healing Specialist. She has turned her past into her passion as she provides hope, healing, and freedom to those whose lives have been affected by toxic relationships, emotional abuse, and narcissistic behaviours.
Ann Nguyen is a Sex and Relationship Coach Born and raised in California. Ann trained through the Courageous Living Coach Certification. Most recently, she's training at the Tantric Institute of Integrated Sexuality as a sexual empowerment and love coach.
Katrin is a Vaginismus specialist who uses her own journey to pain-free sex to inspire and inform the journeys of others. Katrin has trained as a TRE® Provider and PSYCH-K® Practitioner to help with tension and trauma release, down-regulating the nervous system and subconscious healing.
Lenore Black
Conscious Kink Facilitator
Lenore Black describes herself as a 'Raw & Raunchy Witch here to guide you in creating a life that turns you the fuck on.' Lenore believes in liberation of the soul through full expression of SELF. Using pleasure, ritual, and intuition, Lenore guides you to create a language between yourself, your body, and your unconscious.
Alba Soto
Trauma Liberation coach
Alba Cordero Soto is the founder of Alba Soto TLC where she specialises in Trauma Liberation Coaching. Alba describes herself as am a positive and resilient trauma survivor and I am dedicated to helping teen girls and single mothers who have suffered from sexual trauma.
Tay
Trauma Informed Doula + Podcaster
Tay works as a professional Trauma Informed Full Spectrum Doula and also runs TAYTALKS: A brand designed to amplify and empower voices of color. As a survivor of IPV, Tay created this space as a means to shed light on experiences and situations that are often swept under the rug.The TAYTALKS podcast focuses on conversations regarding healing, IPV, relationships, trauma, and wellness.
Yoga & Meditation Teacher
Yoga teacher
Harpinder Kaur Mann is a yoga and mindfulness teacher, actively decolonising wellness. Harpinder is also co-creator of the Womxn of Color Summit. Harpinder truly believes that mindfulness and movement facilitates happiness and serves as a healing tool.
Yoga Teacher
Irene is a Mystic and Movement Guide for women of color and allies. She is also co-creator of the Womxn of Color Summit. Irene offers 1:1 coaching, online Yoga clubs and Tarot Reading.
Author, Speaker & Retreat Leader
Lyn Barrett offers reading, professional writing, speaking and reflections about dissociative identity disorder.
Liza Colpa's mission is to use yoga as a tool, and lead by example for the purpose of your healing, growth, self-development, and transformation.
The Consent Awareness Network (CAN) fights for consent-based laws to conquer all forms of sexual assault across the US and around the world!
SafeBAE is a survivor-founded, student-led national organization whose mission is to end sexual assault among middle and high school students. As the only national peer-to-peer organization of our kind, we help promote culture change by giving teens the tools to become activists and shift school culture through raising awareness about dating violence, sexual harassment and assault, affirmative consent, safe bystander intervention, survivor care, and their rights under Title IX.
Hollaback! is a global, people-powered movement to end harassment — in all its forms. We believe that we all deserve to be who we are, wherever we are. We believe we all have a role to play in disrupting harassment and building a culture where it is no longer seen as “just the price you have to pay” for being a woman, LGBTQ+, a person of color, or any other marginalized identity.
RAINN (Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network) is the nation's largest anti-sexual violence organization. RAINN created and operates the National Sexual Assault Hotline in partnership with more than 1,000 local sexual assault service providers across the country. RAINN operates the DoD Safe Helpline for the Department of Defense. RAINN also carries out programs to prevent sexual violence, help survivors, and ensure that perpetrators are brought to justice.
The Survivor's Toolbox is an online platform to help survivors of sexual violence. Survivor's Toolbox have created a web series with short, informational content to walk survivors through things such as dealing with PTSD, how to report a case to police and finding trauma-informed therapists.
The Survivors Trust was founded out of a need for specialist trauma services to help each other to survive in a difficult climate. The managers of six small specialist charities came together to offer each other peer support and encouragement, advice on managing trauma services, and share information about how to gain funding to deliver them. 15 years later, The Survivors Trust still offers this support to specialist services and provides a national voice for the sector and its clients.
Refuge provides specialist services to survivors of domestic abuse. Refuge runs the Freephone 24 hour National Domestic Abuse Helpline: 0808 2000 247.
Rape Crisis England & Wales is a feminist organisation that supports the work of Rape Crisis Centres across England and Wales. They also raise awareness and understanding of sexual violence and abuse in all its forms. They exist to improve services and promote the needs and rights of women and girls who have experienced sexual abuse, rape and all forms of sexual violence. They also work towards the elimination of sexual violence and abuse, raising awareness in the wider community and with government.
The Womxn of Color Summit® is an equitable community organization focused on creating safe and inclusionary spaces for womxn and non-binary people of color to share stories and knowledge as well as make impactful change. Their work is rooted in our commitment to dismantle oppressive systems that provide access to knowledge and tools for the few at the expense of the majority.
RSVP believe that everyone deserves a life free from sexual violence and abuse. RSVP support people who have been subjected to sexual violence and abuse to thrive and enjoy a future of hope and confidence. RSVP boldly stands with survivors and challenge victim blaming attitudes.
She Matters is a community to empower survivors while advocating for survivor rights globally. They encourage survivors of all backgrounds to participate in their creative campaigns, advocacy initiatives, and policy development.
(EROC) works to end campus sexual violence through direct support for survivors and their communities; prevention through education; and policy reform at the campus, local, state, and federal levels.