Book Launch: An Intersectional Guide for Male Survivors of Sexual Abuse and their Allies: Masculinity Reconnected
Join Olumide Ajulo and Jeremy Sachs to discuss Sachs’ new book 'An Intersectional Guide for Male Survivors of Sexual Abuse and their Allies: Masculinity Reconnected'. They will explore the creation of this intersectional text, the importance of transformative justice and how the text aims to support healthcare professionals, therapists and abuse survivors to better understand the complex world of sexual abuse recovery.
About the book.
Few experiences carry more shame, stigma, and misunderstanding than the trauma of sexual abuse. This book acts as an accessible guide to understanding the experiences and life-altering challenges faced by male survivors. It provides compassionate and practical insights towards healing for survivors and the loved ones and professionals that support them.
Sachs examines the impact of sexual abuse on different men through an intersectional lens, exploring how their unique identities, circumstances, and society’s views affect their recovery or compound their trauma. Each chapter addresses a topic chosen by hundreds of male survivors who have attended the author’s recovery groups. It includes survivor testimonies, signposts to resources, and reflective activities to help manage the aftermath of sexual trauma. With statutory services, such as the criminal justice system, often failing male survivors, the book draws on Transformative Justice principles to suggest alternative ways for men to break cycles of trauma and move forward with their lives.
Aimed at male survivors and those who support them—counsellors, psychotherapists, social workers, family members, and loved ones—this book offers guidance and hope for navigating a path to healing.
Endorsements for the book.
‘Packed full of insights, practical guidance and signposting, this is an engaging, accessible, and deeply compassionate text for male survivors of sexual abuse and their allies—including the professionals working with them. An essential guide for those wanting to navigate this complex, sensitive, but profoundly important field.’
- Mick Cooper, author of Psychology at the Heart of Social Change (Policy Press, 2023).
Given that patriarchal adaptations mean men are often taught to hide, or suppress, the shame of sexual abuse, to have so gentle, yet so pointed and strong, a masculine voice speak on so sensitive a subject says a lot about the power of the prose presented in this volume. This is an emotional, sensitive tome, written from the thoughtful and somatically considered. This book lays out that road, presents pathways for practitioners to work with what is a challenging, little understood, yet hugely important experience for a good number of men. This is therefore a worthwhile, easy to access, deep dive into the experiences of male survivors of sexual abuse, which offers routes forward for practitioners working with these issues in their practices. - Dr Dwight Turner - (He/Him) PhD, Dipl Supvn, Psychotherapist, Supervisor, and Workshop, Facilitator, UKCP Accredited
[An Intersectional Guide for Male Survivors of Sexual Abuse and Their Allies] is profoundly moving: emotionally, it draws you into the embodied narratives of male sexual abuse survivors, compelling you to immerse in their lived realities often shrouded in silence. Conceptually, it challenges the very core of persistent myths about what it means to live as, and be, a man. Therapeutically, it provokes a necessary and urgent reckoning amongst mental health professionals, urging us to question how rigid social constructions of masculinity implicitly guide therapeutic interactions with male service users, where silent struggles may be mistaken as stoic endurance. - Dr Nini Kerr, Senior Lecturer in Counselling, Psychotherapy and Applied Social Sciences School of Health in Social Science, The University of Edinburgh
Learning Objective Participants Can Expect From This Event
- To better understand the need for intersectional theory when working with male survivors of abuse
- To introduce the key themes that arise when working with male survivors
- How engaging with transformative justice principles can help all men move on with their lives beyond the pain of sexual abuse
Who is This Workshop Appropriate For?
- Those who work or support male survivors of sexual abuse or have interest in the topic
How May This Workshop Impact Your Practice?
- To gain a contemporary understanding of the themes that can affect male survivors and how intersectional issues can impact recovery and trauma
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Presenter
Jeremy Sachs is an integrative psychotherapist, lecturer, and writer specialising in trauma recovery, sexual violence healing, and intersectional approaches to mental health. With over a decade of experience, he has focused on supporting male survivors of sexual abuse and creating inclusive therapeutic programmes for trans and non-binary individuals. For six years, he led SurvivorsUK’s group programmes and continues to develop new therapeutic groups to address diverse client needs.
In addition to his clinical practice, Jeremy contributes to psychologically informed research. As a freelance consultant and has worked with organisations such as the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, Movember, and Younger Lives. He lectures at the London Diploma for Psychosexual and Relationship Therapy and has been a guest lecturer at The Tavistock Relationships, among other institutions. His writing has been published in ‘BACP Private Practice Journal’, ‘Therapy Today’, and ‘Happiful Magazine’, and he has served on the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) Research Committee.
Jeremy is a trustee at Wellbeing Scotland, a charity providing trauma-informed support to individuals and communities affected by abuse, neglect, and adversity. He is also the host and producer of ‘The Trauma Talks’ podcast and the author of ‘An Intersectional Guide for Male Survivors of Sexual Abuse and Their Allies: Masculinity Reconnected’, which will be published by Routledge, released July 2025. He is currently working on his second book. From London and currently based in Glasgow, Scotland, Jeremy runs a private practice and delivers training and talks across the UK and internationally.
Olumide Ajulo is a psychotherapist, who is an accredited member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy and an ordinary member of The Society for Dialectical Behaviour Therapy. He manages the counselling service at Leeds Beckett University and has recently completed his MSc in Psychology where his dissertation was ‘Understanding how sociodemographic characteristics can influence men’s desire to engage with mental health services at university’
The Therapy and Social Change (TaSC) Network is a broad affiliation of people interested in exploring the interface between therapeutic ideas and practices and social justice perspectives and actions. We are interested both in the ways that counselling and psychotherapy can be practiced with social justice concerns in mind (for instance, tackling unconscious biases in the consulting room), and also in the ways that therapeutic principles and practices can be extended out to the wider social realm (for instance, developing social and emotional literacy in schools).
