Strengthen your professional practice
Education for Support Workers: get certified in SAIF
SAIF approaches sexual trauma as injury, and our education programs give you knowledge about the injury levels of sexual trauma beyond symptoms. The programs are grounded in a decade of research and experience, shaped together by survivors, clinicians, and researchers. We believe and hope this understanding will unlock new supportive approaches, and help you convey that healing is possible.
After becoming SAIF-certified, you can bring the framework into your professional practice — with ongoing support from WONSA's global network. You can also choose to be visible in the SAIF provider directory, where you can connect survivors with certified psychiatrists and therapists, and they can refer patients to you — so each of you can do the work that is yours.
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 SAI 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 SAIF."
— 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
SAIF goes beyond what traditional healthcare captures.
So what makes SAIF special?
SAIF identifies the injury level after sexual trauma, rather than focusing on symptom management. Too often, these injuries go unrecognized, and survivors meet responses that don't fit what they actually carry. SAIF helps you recognize the injury level using practical methods, tools, and principles — and connect each level to the support or care it calls for.
Because healing is possible — and it begins with being seen.
The full SAIF 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.
SAIF Program specifications
Study SAIF
Get certified
Note: Course program and Certification is paid for separately.
Network access
Requirements
Become SAIF-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?
SAIF goes beyond symtoms
SAIF 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.
