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Nice to meet you!
After a childhood in which coercion, sexual abuse, and exploitation played a significant role, Ana Olivia went on to build a professional career as a manager and Executive Assistant within both national and international organizations.
The impact of abuse, coercion, and exploitation continued to shape her life over several decades. During this time, she not only navigated legal, healthcare, and social systems, but also built a career, created new social and professional networks, and learned to navigate the complex reality of recovery alongside the expectations of society.
These experiences gave her deep insight into how secondary victimization and trauma affect identity, trust, relationships, and work, and how the behavior of victims and survivors is often misunderstood when the underlying reality is not fully recognized.
By connecting her personal experiences with professional expertise in organizations and business environments, she offers a perspective that contributes to greater understanding, improved communication, and a more nuanced approach to exploitation, coercive control, and recovery.
For organizations, professionals, researchers, journalists, and others who want to contribute to a better understanding of sexual exploitation, grooming, and recovery.
What to expect?
Leaving Abaddonwas founded on the belief that much of what is said about exploitation, grooming, and coercive control tells only part of the story.
Although awareness of these issues is growing, there often remains a gap between professional knowledge and the daily reality of those who have lived through these experiences. That gap becomes visible in misunderstandings, missed signals, and interpretations that fail to fully account for the impact of prolonged control, sexual violence, and dependency.
Grounded in lived experience, personal reflection, and professional expertise, Ana Olivia offers a perspective that understands both the lived reality of victims and the practical realities faced by organizations and professionals.
Leaving Abaddonfocuses on the complex interplay between exploitation, behavior, communication, and social systems. Particular attention is given to the ways victims and survivors are perceived, assessed, and supported by police, healthcare professionals, support services, education, and other social organizations.
By providing insight into the psychological and relational consequences of exploitation, she contributes to greater awareness, improved communication, and a more nuanced understanding of the dynamics that often lie beneath behavior, warning signs, and requests for help.
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Speaker & Guest Expert
Available for panel discussions, interviews, small-scale gatherings, expert sessions, and collaborations on exploitation, grooming, coercive control, and recovery. With particular attention to the gap between the lived reality of victims and the way it is understood within healthcare, support services, education, and social organizations.
Training & Workshops
Practical and in-depth training focused on understanding survival strategies and improving communication with victims and survivors.
Collaboration & Projects
Collaboration with researchers, journalists, documentary makers, social organizations, and policymakers who want to integrate a lived-experience perspective into their work.
Advice & Consultation
Support for professionals and organizations seeking insight into complex situations involving exploitation, dependency, trauma bonding, coercive control, and victim behavior.
How People Fuction After Sexual Exploitation and Polyvictimization
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This workbook has been developed for professionals who work with people affected by sexual exploitation, coercive control, human trafficking, repeated abuse, and complex trauma.