Domestic Abuse – Volunteering within the Community

Volunteering within my community developed a sense of meaning and purpose in my own life which led me to working in a Women’s Service, supporting survivors and women currently experiencing domestic abuse, coercive control, sexual violence, and childhood sexual abuse.

Working with these courageous women taught me the importance of human connection and how much we rely on support from others such as professional services and the support of friends and family. This can hugely impact how our early life experiences go on to influence our own life story, and how we then go on to parent our own children. As the saying goes, ‘it takes a village to raise a child’. Early intervention is crucial and if we support the primary care giver, we ultimately support the child.

Some people have not had the support that they should have, for many different reasons. Therapy can have a huge reparative impact, by working through this with a therapist that you trust.

During my Foundation Degree, I obtained a placement counselling within a Women’s Service, and after graduating became employed there gaining extensive experience in the field of Domestic Abuse. Eventually I became the charities’ head of Women’s Services and Head of Counselling.

Working with Domestic Abuse is an area of my work that I am very passionate about, supporting survivors and families of those currently impacted by it. In 2019 I was very proud to receive the Mayors award for services to Domestic Abuse for the city of Winchester.