“She said the assault was behind her. She had moved on. But her body said otherwise — breath shallow, eyes darting, voice quiet. It wasn’t the trauma she couldn’t face. It was the grief — for the voice she lost, the touch that no longer felt safe, the parts of her that had gone silent.”

Sexual Grief is a specific and often unspoken form of grief that arises after a sexually traumatic predatory event, violation, or loss. It is not just grief for what happened — but for what was taken in its aftermath: safety, desire, trust, agency, and the ability to feel at home in one’s own mind and body. Unlike conventional grief, until now it has not been named as part of the imprint survivors carry after such an event. Nor has it been socially recognised, or directly addressed in therapy. And yet, its impact is profound.

This is the Sexual Grief Effect — a clinically significant, culturally silenced phenomenon that therapists must learn to recognise and treat. It presents not only in emotion, but in the body: in dissociation, shame or self-loathing, shutdown, overcompensation or hypervigilance, and a haunting sense of disconnection from having a relationship to one’s personal, social, and sexual identity. All of these disconnects lead to what Nathan refers to as the “amnesia of love.”

In this three-part video training, trauma therapist and grief specialist Edy Nathan introduces clinicians to the Sexual Grief Effect and her original model, The Liberation Protocol — which integrates trauma theory, somatic attunement, and dialogical tools adapted from hostage negotiation. With clinical depth, lived experience, and fierce compassion, Edy offers a practical and deeply human framework for helping clients reclaim what has been silenced.

Whether purchased as a full series or as standalone modules, this training invites us to work with sexual trauma not only as a wound, but as a grief — one that can be acknowledged, supported, and ultimately transformed.

A Training to Deepen the Work

This is not a course in sexual dysfunction, nor in trauma alone — but in grief. A grief that often arrives in silence, lives in the body, and erodes a person’s ability to feel safe, connected, or fully alive.

Edy Nathan brings to this training a rare blend of clinical expertise, personal insight, and therapeutic innovation. Through theory, casework, and embodied practice, she offers a language for what has long remained unnamed — and a path for helping clients reclaim the parts of themselves that trauma silenced. She shows clinicians how to help clients move out of self-loathing, integrate liberation, and remember love.

This course is suitable for psychotherapists, psychologists, counsellors, and clinical professionals working with trauma, grief, embodiment, and relational repair.

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