The Mental Health Foundation team is pleased to inform you that they are expanding care to
Group Therapy sessions for Survivors of Sexual Abuse. The reasons for this initiative are:
To support participants in sharing their experience to help survivors to better understand
the impact of the sexual assault on their lives.
To educate participants on the precepts of the abuse, the trauma and to process their
feelings, as well as to help participants identify how their trauma has impacted their trust
including how to process feelings of mistrust in their relationships.
Much is changing and happening on St. Maarten since Hurricane Irma and Covid-19, MHF is
constantly adapting to the influx of patients and their requests for care. This initiative by the
psychologists of the foundation is to create opportunity to provide treatment to as many persons
as possible.
MHF is presently also reorganizing the out-patient care procedures due to the large inflow of new
patients. Our main problem at the moment is the shortage of treatment rooms to be able to
individually see patients. To shorten the waiting period as much as possible for patients to be
seen, the foundation now also has evening consultations. More home visits are being done by the
psychiatrists to make sure all clients get the necessary care.
Hoping the public will understand our problems and support our efforts in reaching out to as
much as possible persons in need of our care.
