Karen Doughty School of Healing is dedicated to changing the dynamics of human suffering, improving quality of life, and modifying coping mechanisms through the promotion of education and programs and the provision of tools and resources for adult survivors of child sexual abuse.

 

KDSH's fundamental concern is bridging the gap between adult survivors with behavioral and psychological manifestations of child sexual abuse and practical steps to healing. For this cause, we hold survivors in high esteem in hopes that they make a choice and take the paradigm shift. This shift is known for taking others from victim to victor, tragic to triumph, and as for me, misery to ministry.

 

MISSION

To unravel the mentalities of those who are molded and shaped by sexual abuse. It will take wielding the right tools. These and other resources are exclusive for empowerment and transformation while on the road to recovery.

 

VISION

To see people in their respective places, -that is, back on track, and in the original intent and purpose that God has for their life. 

 

 

PHILOSOPHY 

KDSH is the essence of change—and therefore, embraces the responsibility to drive change. We uphold the belief that–to be successful in changing others, we must have first been—impacted by change—to infect those we come in contact with.

 

OBJECTIVES

I.   To offer adult survivors of sexual abuse community and supply them with a program that helps them confront and come to terms with their abuse.    

II.   To provide survivors with a framework to identify symptoms and adjust coping mechanisms toward long-standing effects.  

III.  To use strategy when moving survivors from the role of victim to victor, pain to purpose, or whatever is specific to their experience.

IV.  To facilitate empowerment so that survivors can rise to the occasion and break down barriers of guilt, blame, and shame.

V.   To support survivors in grieving losses that have affected their self-esteem, power, trusting others, identity, and decisiveness to name a few, in the aftermath of abuse then, support them in the recovery efforts.

VI.   To detoxify survivors of any residue that abuse has left behind. 

VII.  To return survivors to the original intent and purpose of their life.

VIII. To provide an educational experience that holds survivors to the skills they have learned and if, or when, sexual abuse rear its ugly head, they can hone in on the lessons they have learned and maintain their healing.