Your impact
Your donation will be used to increase:
- Financial assistance to clients in need
- Community awareness of our services to increase the number of clients served
- Public knowledge of the impact of childhood sexual abuse in order to help break the cycle of abuse
Your donations support our goals
Two key goals at Shepherd's are to:
- Increase financial assistance available to clients in order to receive therapy
- Increase the number of clients benefiting from our therapy services
Our commitment to our clients is to individualize our therapy methods to best meet each client's needs.
- We have never ended a survivor's treatment due to an inability to pay
- We are committed to seeing each client through the lengthy and challenging process of healing from the complex effects of child sexual abuse
Your donations to Shepherd's Counseling Services allow us to serve clients in the way that provides them the best help and therapy for their individual needs, and gives us critically needed resources to reach to out more survivors of child sexual abuse.
Support for Shepherd's from individuals, faith-based communities, workplace giving programs and foundations create long-term stability and make it possible for us to provide the most direct and appropriate help to our clients.
Why support Shepherd's Counseling Services?
- Shepherd's is unique and vital as we provide affordable, professional, long-term therapy specifically to meet the needs of adult men and women who were sexually abused in childhood.
- Shepherd's is a necessary voice for adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse in the community.
- Shepherd's is distinctive because it focuses exclusively on the long-term needs of adult survivors.
- All of our therapists are Washington State licensed and hold a master's degree in psychology, social work or counseling.
- Shepherd's is one of only a few nonprofit agencies in the Greater Seattle area addressing the issue of sexual abuse and fulfills a specific need not met by other local agencies in providing long-term therapy to adult survivors.
- Shepherd's depends on gifts from the community to keep therapy affordable and continue our quality services.
- Our donors have given more than 2,000 men and women long-deserved, new possibilities for their lives.
- The demand for our services is growing as more people learn about Shepherd's and seek our help.
Social benefits of helping adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse
- Increased community awareness about the problem, which is a key step toward ending the generational cycle of sexual abuse.
- Greater recognition that healing for adult survivors require quality, long-term assistance.
- Improved personal relationships and improved parenting skills which, in turn, support healthier families.
- Life improvements such as creating stability in jobs and housing, returning to school, strengthening relationships, and improving health.
- A safer community for all, by helping end the cycle of abuse.
Find out more about how your donation helps and read our frequently asked questions about donating.
Or read about the need for help, facts about childhood sexual abuse, the benefits of therapy and testimonials from adult survivors who have benefited from Shepherd's services.