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Should I go for counselling? Yes, you should. Telling the police or your parents that you have been sexually abused is an important step, but it’s only the beginning. When you‘ve been sexually abused as a teenager, you have a number of fears you must admit to and confront before you can be whole again. The best person to help you may be a trained sexual abuse counsellor. If there are no fully trained counsellors in your community, you should consider going to whatever adult has the best helping skills. This may be a social worker, a minister, or a lay counsellor. Lay counsellors are adults who don’t have a university degree, but do have some training in counselling skills.
