We are creating a world where girls and women can move freely and engage meaningfully without fear from sexual violence.
Stepping Out is a specialist service supporting adult female survivors of childhood sexual abuse. We use clinical expertise to connect survivors so they feel heard, believed and less alone.
Our Programs
The World Awaits
Social inclusion groups and activities for survivors of childhood sexual abuse who experience isolation as a result of their trauma.
Shift the Shame
Understand and manage the impacts of childhood sexual abuse including trauma theory, attachments styles, relationships, boundaries and self care.
You Are Not Alone
Navigating healthy relationships for survivors, specifically designed for victim-survivors as a ‘soft entry’ into the recovery from the trauma of childhood sexual abuse.
Your Somatic Toolbox
Teaching survivors practical body-based techniques to soothe the nervous system and help with emotional self-regulation, run by qualified trauma clinician in Marrickville.
Free training for frontline workers
Stepping Out delivers training sessions to the community and disability sector on the prevalence and impacts of child sexual abuse and trauma-informed skills in supporting victim-survivors. For more information, please contact us here
The drifting invisibility and blurred boundaries that survivors feel made me relate immediately to Justine Wahlin’s art.
– Melissa Holmes, Stepping Out CEO
Testimonials
“I liked the fact that it was such a safe space to share and heal. Now I have found the words, voice and courage to express my experience, which I couldn’t disclose before. I will remember the key message – shame should lie with the perpetrator, not me.”
– participant, ‘Shift the Shame’ program
We run workshops to address the trauma of childhood sexual abuse (CSA), meeting each victim-survivor where they are at.
All groups are free of charge to remove any barriers to participation and are delivered both in-person and online.