The Evolution of SOAAR

Anastasia Sprout, MSW is a retired psychotherapist and certified sex addiction therapist (CSAT) from Seattle with over thirty years of experience as a therapist and social worker in a variety of settings, from community mental health and hospitals to private clinical practice. Her practice has focused on helping individuals, groups and couples in recovery from sex/pornography, love and relationship addictions. She is currently a coach in the areas of intimacy, sexual recovery, and helping survivors heal from organized extreme abuse. More information also available at her sexual recovery website, www.stacisprout.com.

Anastasia first began to recall her own extreme abuse experiences in the early 90’s, and started a multidimensional healing journey that continues to this day. By 2009, she felt inspired to offer online service with other organized abuse survivors and allies, as a founding member of the North American Truth and Reconciliation Coalition [http://natrcoalition.org/]. This project was first envisioned and launched by Kathleen Sullivan, author of Unshackled: A Survivor’s Story of Mind Control and Neil Brick, founder of the S.M.A.R.T. conference and newsletter (Stop Mind Control and Ritual Abuse Today). Though the coalition is no longer active beyond basic announcements, it was an instructive and productive endeavor, and led to lasting friendships with others who had survived extreme abuse.

In 2015, Anastasia published a memoir called Naked in Public: A Memoir of Recovery from Sex Addiction and Other Temporary Insanities to share her story of sexual recovery. Due to personal targeting at that time and risk to her family, she chose not to include details about her organized, extreme abuse in that publication.

In 2021, Anastasia and several others co-created a new organization called Survivors Assisting Survivors of Extreme Abuse (SASEA). This group helped organize a zoom celebration of life for organized abuse healing activist Trish Fotheringham, which brought together survivors and allies from all across the globe.

Also in 2021, Anastasia began to better understand the mass mind control/SRA operations behind many societal movements, and united with Seattle-area activists to protest and reclaim human rights via multiple in-person events. This led to collaboration with the “March for Washington” and The Seattle Truth Network organizations, and in 2022, the first Seattle “March for Innocence” took place on October 20, 2022. The Seattle Truth Network hosted and recorded Anastasia’s public talks on Trauma-Based Mind Control and Satanic Ritual Abuse.

In 2022, the SASEA organization evolved into Support for Organized Abuse and Addiction Recovery, or SOAAR, to expand services for professionals, allies, and healing from addiction. In 2023, SOAAR added three team members and started their first professional consultation group to help professionals treating survivors of extreme organized abuse. In 2024, we expanded services for individual coaching and supportive groups for survivors for Organized Extreme Abuse.

View Anastasia’s professional vitae, here.

At SOAAR Global, PMA, our mission is to offer professional consultation and training, education, direct action events and healing resources for survivors, helpers and allies impacted by organized extreme abuse.

We want to end all organized abuse now.