CFS Ottawa

CFS Ottawa is the only free service available to provide 'support' to male victims of s3xual @buse in the city. It's no wonder so many men off themselves. The executive director confirmed that they don't even have a single male counsellor on staff despite f3male victims in Ontario being offered exclusive single gendered spaces. The woman who was supposed to be providing me with 'support' was clearly a radical f3minist with a constitutional inability to even acknowledge the experiences of male victims as they challenge the f3minist dogma that all men are inherently priviledged. Image being a homeless victim of a violent gang r@pe and being subjected to some psychop@thic woman who makes a six figure salary off the tax payer and still thinks she is the oppressed one in the room. I strongly advise male s3xual @buse victims to avoid this service at all costs. CFS Ottawa does more harm than good. Male victims would be better off offing themselves than trying to get help from a gaggle of m@n-hating f3male chauvinist h@rpies.

It is possible that counselling models have changed substantially in my 58 years on the planet, but what I experienced with CFS was really bothersome. I was introduced to Somatic Experiencing and the therapist I was assigned was really pushy with this treatment. After being sent links for videos about SE, I spent around 7 hours watching only to be horrified by the technique. I qualified for counselling because of childhood trauma (SA), and I have challenges with anger management and interpersonal relationships, trust, the typical issues for people with my trauma background. When I had experienced some counselling around 20 years ago, these physical touch therapies were not presented, and for me they just aren't helpful. I am not resistant to new ideas, I am not closed minded toward alternate treatments or therapies -- I tend to want to try anything I believe can help me. Still, watching a video of the SE founder saying in a trauma trigger situation one only has to put a hand under the armpit, and another hand across the opposite shoulder to feel safe made me realize therapy appears to have lost its way. Firstly, in trauma of any physical nature, the focus on touch, even by one's self, will not typically trigger a feeling of safety. Next, if we could solve all of our psychological suffering with self hugs, wouldn't we already be ok? In transactional analysis, therapy exposes the client to cognitive change - the idea that thinking differently can trigger better emotional responses to circumstances. It is a long-term life changing way to employ cognitive programming for positive change. SE, on the other hand, appears to be a band-aid concept, that one just needs to distract one's self and the trauma will pass. Well, in my opinion, lasting change and cognitive adjustment makes more sense than band-aid treatments, and with SE being the focus at CFS from the director down, I can't encourage people to use this service for serious mental health conditions. Unfortunately, CFS is the only group I am aware of which receives funding from government levels to treat childhood sexual trauma in male survivors. That being the case, someone needs to be evaluating outcomes, in my opinion, as I don't believe any seriously traumatized individuals are going to make much progress putting one hand under their armpit and the other on the opposite shoulder. In fact, I think that might even be a self violation. If you are an adult male survivor of childhood sexual abuse, I encourage you to try all other available resources before contacting this organization. I do not believe anyone at CFS has the proper type of training to help us.

Huge joke I doubt this course helped anybody in 33 years.

I was there for a crisis appointment and had the disgusting Privilege of watching a child being taken from their parent. Parent given no privacy Triggered me even more so I left before my crisis appointment in a bigger crisis no one followed up when they saw me fleeing the situation in tears The workers had no compassion for me or that parent! Save yourself the trauma!

Fantastic place