Strengthen clinical practice – become SAIS certified
Education program open to health care professionals
Survivors of sexual abuse are present in every clinical practice. Their symptoms can be diffuse and their behaviors may confuse. With SAIS, patients who once seemed puzzling become patients you can understand — improving the care you deliver.
Even if sexual trauma is not your primary field, recognizing a patient's SAIS level is a practical asset in everyday somatic care.
Grounded in a decade of research with survivors, clinicians and researchers, SAIS gives you a framework to apply in your practice.
Join a growing global network of clinicians across specialties and professions, raising the standard of care for survivors of sexual abuse.
Expand your understanding of sexual abuse and its far-reaching impact on the nervous system, mental health, relationships, and sense of self.
Meet the Founder and Head of Clinic
“I have seen deep resistance to essential procedures fade when what has been hidden is finally seen, and mutual understanding can take its place. Recognizing a patient's SAIS level does not complicate your work — often, it is in the most difficult cases, where one might hesitate to touch anything at all, that it eases the complexity most. That is why I wish every healthcare professional would learn about SAIS."
— Gita Rajan, Phd. MD. Specialist in Family Medicine
Researcher and Founder of WONSA
“Somewhere along the way, the art of psychiatric practice became an industry. Streamlining replaced curiosity. Production targets replaced presence. Promising research rarely made it into the consulting room, and adherence to method became its own kind of dogma.
At WONSA, we work differently. Observation matters here — the kind of careful, unhurried attention that allows real understanding to emerge. Skills and knowledge are valued. Integrity and authenticity are not ideals we aspire to; they are the foundation we build on. And working in this field — truly working in it, with depth and understanding — remains what it always should have been: a source of inspiration, meaning, and joy.
We invite you to be part of that."
— Nils Joneborg, MD Specialist in Psychiatry, Head of Clinic, WONSA
SAIS goes beyond what traditional healthcare captures.
SAIS demonstrates that injuries after sexual trauma span multiple levels and affect care across clinical specialties — beyond what standard training captures. As a result, essential investigations may be delayed, procedures avoided, and patients left without the somatic care they need and are entitled to.
Through SAIS, you learn to recognize different injury levels and the elevated somatic risks they carry — including cancer risks linked to early penetrative abuse, and the chronic disease and premature mortality risks documented in ACE research. This knowledge informs which examinations are essential and which can be safely postponed, helps you guide patients through procedures with care, and calibrates screening and prevention to the patient in front of you.
The full SAIS program
Take Note: *Additional fee for certification applies.
Get supervision through the community network, connect with other professionals and get guidance and feedback.
Additional fee for network access may apply.
“Though frightening, these attacks..... remind us that creating a protected space where survivors can speak their truth is an act of liberation...bearing witness... is an act of solidarity... Those who stand with the victim will inevitably have to face the perpetrator's unmasked fury. For many of us, there can be no greater honour.”
- Judith Lewis Herman, M.D
Together we are change.
SAIS Program specifications
Study SAIS
Get certified
Note: Course program and Certification is paid for separately.
Network access
Requirements
Healthcare
professionals
Requirements
A valid license or certificate of accomplished studies. Open to physicians, gynecolgists, nurses and other healthcare professionals.
Become certified
Become SAIS-certified
Our goal is to spread the injury perspective on sexual trauma — across specialties and around the world. It's a foundation, not a finished answer. With it, clinicians can choose, build, and offer survivors the care they need. Will you help carry it forward — toward healthcare that is truly accessible, even for survivors of sexual abuse?
SAIS goes beyond symtoms
SAIS helps uncover the underlying injuries, allowing you to see through the symptoms, enabling more precis treatment planning.
Founder
WONSA was founded by Researcher (PhD, MD) and Survivor Gita Rajan, in Stockholm, 2014.
Join our network
We are a community driven organisation. Our programs give you access to our social global network.
