Healing after abuse should not require proving your worth.
Integration should not punish survival.
- Lina Gabbaoan
Soulful Phoenix is a personal advocacy platform grounded in lived experience and professional practice as a psychosocial therapist and trauma-informed counsellor.
It exists to examine how systems meant to support migrant women and families in family justice, mental health care, and economic participation can unintentionally retraumatize those they serve.
This platform translates lived experience into policy-relevant insight, not personal complaint.
Why This Platform Exists
Across Europe, migrant women recovering after abuse often encounter a second struggle, this time with institutions.
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Family justice processes that prioritise procedure over psychological safety.
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Mental health pathways that respond only after collapse.
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Economic and credit systems that treat disrupted histories as personal risk.
These experiences are frequently framed as individual problems.
In reality, they reveal structural blind spots.
Soulful Phoenix exists to make those blind spots visible carefully, responsibly, and without sensationalism.
What Soulful Phoenix Does
Soulful Phoenix works at the intersection of:
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Trauma & family justice
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Migration, power, and institutional stress
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Mental health and preventive care
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Economic participation as integration
The platform offers:
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survivor-informed analysis of systemic patterns
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trauma-aware reflections relevant to policy and practice
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language that bridges lived experience and institutional logic
This is not a therapy space.
It is not a legal platform.
It is not a campaign.
It is an advocacy lens.
Who This Is For
Soulful Phoenix is written for:
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Policymakers and advisors
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Government and municipal professionals
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NGOs and civil society organizations
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Practitioners working with migrant families
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Survivors who want understanding without exposure
If you are looking for individual support or crisis care, this platform will not be the right place.
How to Engage With This Platform
Soulful Phoenix engages through:
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published policy reflections and essays
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structured dialogue with institutions
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expert-by-experience contributions (non-case based)
It does not engage in:
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individual legal disputes
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public accusations
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naming institutions or professionals
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reactive commentary
Boundaries are part of the work.
About the Founder
Soulful Phoenix is founded by a migrant mother based in the Netherlands, trained in psychology and trauma-informed counselling, with lived experience navigating recovery after abuse, high-conflict custody processes, and economic rebuilding within migration contexts.
This platform reflects both professional practice and lived reality, translated into systemic insight.