Where the wound becomes wisdom

The DoraVera app: your healing companion

A trauma-informed healing app for women recovering from sexual trauma, grounded in neuroscience, somatics and the sacred.

Healing is not becoming someone new

It is recovering what was always yours. DoraVera meets what happened steadily, through the body, where it actually lives. It was built by a woman, for women, from lived experience.

What's inside

Everything this journey needs, in one grounded, supportive place.

Crisis Support

Helpline numbers and what to do if you feel overwhelmed. Always before anything else.

Foundational Practices

Your everyday nervous-system toolkit: 5-4-3-2-1 anchoring, heart coherence breathing and the Inner Sanctuary. Always free.

The Emotional First Aid Kit

For flooded moments. Always free and easy to find.

Seven Layers

Each one meets a limiting belief and combines education, embodiment practices, tapping, meditation and journalling.

The Body Holds the Story

Clear, gentle education on what sexual trauma is and how it affects mind, body and soul.

Read or listen

Audio recordings to accompany the practices.

Integration

The final chapter, carrying the work into relationships, boundaries and difficult moments, and life on the other side of healing.

A journey that adapts to you

Start where you are.A short, gentle guide asks whether you're arriving in crisis, feeling tentative, ready to dive in, or wanting to work on one stubborn, stuck place, and points you to the right starting step.
Feel safe first.Crisis resources and the Foundational Practices come before any deeper work.
Heal in Layers.Many people begin with Safety and move through the Layers in order. Others let a limiting belief show them where to start or return. Nothing is compulsory, and you choose where to go.
Take it back out into life.Integration carries the healing into your relationships, your boundaries and your ordinary Tuesdays.
It keeps growing.More practices and teachings will be added as DoraVera develops.

White ox-eye daisies growing in long grass

Who it's for

DoraVera is for any woman touched by sexual trauma: recent or decades old, remembered fully or barely at all, named or unnamed. Assault, childhood abuse, medical trauma, coercive or exploitative relationships, institutional betrayal, and everything that doesn't fit a category. You do not need to categorise your pain to heal it.

It's for you if therapy is a waitlist away, or already underway and you want a companion between sessions. It's for you if "spiritual" communities have felt too fluffy and clinical ones too cold. And it's for you if you don't yet believe you're a person who heals. DoraVera will go gently until you do.

It's women-only, deliberately, so shared experience never needs explaining. Read more about this choice →

DoraVera is a self-guided healing companion, not a replacement for professional care.