One-on-one support and therapy as you begin to heal from post-abortion stress could appear in several forms. You could try to find help:
from a mental health professional (a psychiatrist, social worker, psychotherapist, or other mental health clinician).
from a clergyperson
from a peer-counselor who will almost certainly use a recovery method such as "Forgiven and Set Free", "My Guilt, Grief and Shame are Ending Soon", and meet with you one-on-one for a period of weeks at a time suitable to both of you. (As a rule, these sessions will be free or have a very low charge.)
Individual email counseling through a number of different online sites that offer it.
Advantages of One-on-one Counseling:
Flexible scheduling
Ability to adapt sessions to your particular issues
Privacy
Read a comment made by a person who participated in one-on-one sessions: My 10 counseling sessions have ended with my lay counselor, and I wanted to write and thank you for this life changing experience.
I attended it because I was curious about a ministry dealing with men and women who have had abortions. I knew abortion was wrong and for years I had conditioned myself not to think about it. I told no one about my abortion - struggling to stay in denial even to myself.
The abortion experience itself is very hurtful for a woman to bear. I learned that years of sleepless nights and other phobias were in a straight line related to my abortion. My low self-esteem was mostly because of the tremendous guilt...concealed deep in my heart so no one could see what an awful thing I had done.
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