Victim-survivors are often looked down on, and frequently mislabelled as passive, weak and complicit. As a result, your clients may suffer from being abused and also give themselves a hard time, often believing they themselves are to blame.
It is time to discard these negative misconceptions.
Martine’s book You Are Not a Doormat and You Never Were shows that, despite the pain of abuse, people do resist, and resistance takes many forms. It debunks undeserved blame and challenges the idea that a victim’s responses are unhealthy. Responsibility is firmly placed on the abusers, their tactics are exposed, and readers relearn how to be kinder and more compassionate to themselves and others.
Join Martine to learn more about her book. Together, let’s challenge and discard the notion that any victim-survivor is a doormat. In truth, they are resisters.
Martine lives and works in London where she teaches and has a private practice. She holds a Master’s in Integrative Counselling and Psychotherapy and is accredited by the UKCP.
Martine has worked extensively in the third sector and the NHS and has given many lectures, workshops and weekend training sessions to women’s organisations, the NHS, domestic abuse services, and training organisations. She currently teaches the Response Based Approach on the Diploma and Master courses at the Minster Centre.
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