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title: Shweta Kapoor on Healing from Sexual Trauma
date: 2026-01-20T09:44:00-05:00
author: Jonese Austin
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[Health & Sexuality Info](/health-info)# Shweta Kapoor on Healing from Sexual Trauma

This article features OBOS content expert and psychiatrist Shweta Kapoor, MD, PhD, discussing healing from sexual trauma. While there is no cure for sexual trauma, we can learn to cope with the effects. Medications, such as antidepressants and mood stabilizers, can help us regulate our emotions. Therapies, such as dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) and trauma-focused therapies, can help people learn how to respond to stress and negative life events. Some people may need more intensive treatment.

Along with explaining treatment options, Kapoor shares tips for caring for partners who are survivors of sexual abuse. Partners can learn more about trauma and triggers. They can attend to the needs of their partners, believing them and communicating clearly about sex. It is also important that the partners of survivors have a community of people to support them as well.

After trauma, we can have healthy and fulfilling lives and relationships. While we may never fully heal from the trauma, we can learn how to live with it.

> Having lived with abuse for a prolonged period of time, it may seem like your lived trauma experience is woven into your emotional DNA. But with the help of treatment, your relationship with your life story evolves and changes. You can reach a place of belonging, self-love, self-compassion and growth.

[Read the full article ](https://mcpress.mayoclinic.org/women-health/healing-from-sexual-abuse/)

SOURCE: Mayo Clinic • AUTHOR: Lisa Speckhard Pasque • LAST UPDATED: June 7, 2023

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- [therapy (psychotherapy)](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/tags/therapy-psychotherapy)
- [trauma](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/tags/trauma)
- [survivor](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/tags/survivor)
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## Coping with Triggers

This guide explains “triggers,” or what we like to call “activators,” which are things that activate the nervous system into its alert state.

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This guide explains “triggers,” or what we like to call “activators,” which are things that activate the nervous system into its alert state.](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/health-info/coping-with-triggers)

[Stories & ConversationsListen

## Writer and Artist Chanel Miller on Surviving, Identity, and Activism

Chanel Miller describes finding support as a survivor of sexual violence and how central creating art has been central to her journey of healing. She also discusses racism and the need to reform the criminal justice system for the sake of survivors.

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Chanel Miller describes finding support as a survivor of sexual violence and how central creating art has been central to her journey of healing. She also discusses racism and the need to reform the criminal justice system for the sake of survivors.](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/stories-conversations/writer-and-artist-chanel-miller-on-surviving-identity-and-activism)

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## 2020 Report: Caregiving in the United States

A report on the demographics of caregivers in the United States, the nature of care work, caregiver stress/health, the financial impact of caregiving, and more.

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A report on the demographics of caregivers in the United States, the nature of care work, caregiver stress/health, the financial impact of caregiving, and more.](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/health-info/2020-report-caregiving-in-the-united-states)

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## Finding an LGBTQ+ Inclusive Long-Term Care Community

A guide for people seeking inclusive long-term care for LGBTQ+ elders.

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A guide for people seeking inclusive long-term care for LGBTQ+ elders.](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/health-info/a-guide-to-finding-an-lgbtqia-inclusive-long-term-care-community)