Helga Edwards MSW plans to facilitate an education and peer-support group for:

-women who have experienced intimate partner abuse

-women who are supporting those who have experienced abuse

Intimate partner abuse can be: physical, sexual, emotional, psychological, verbal, spiritual, or financial.

Some planned topics include: signs of an abusive relationship, understanding the cycle of abuse, safety planning, coping with grief, recovering from shame messages, rebuilding self-esteem, managing stress, identifying how abusers commonly misuse Bible passages on the topics of “headship, submission, forgiveness and divorce,” what healthy egalitarian relationships look like, etc.

This is a support group (education and peer support); it is not psychotherapy.

Helga Edwards has Bachelors' degrees in Religious Education and Social Development Studies, as well as her Master's Degree in Social Work. In 2013, she received the Delta Epsilon Chi Award for Intellectual Achievement, Christian Character and Leadership Ability, from the Association for Biblical Higher Education. For 20 years, she worked as a Therapist in community counselling, hospital, and church settings.