gitana1
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JMO, but I think it's extremely likely that Elizabeth Smart had private comforting and healing talks with members of her huge extended family female members who may have experience in counseling. Also, I believe her mother was a great help to her because of her education, faith, and years of living life in this world.
The Smart family adults are all college graduates in varied fields of study according to what I have read in the past. I'm sure it was easier to talk to her mom and maybe an aunt than to someone outside their marvelous close family. They are so very special in all the best ways!
Yes and a couple things that she and her family said were helpful to her was getting back to normal and back in school quickly. That works if the community is super supportive and the kids are kind.
Also, her bishop talked IIRC to her and assured her that she was "pure" before God. That kind of reassurance to a child who might feel otherwise, can be helpful.
Rituals and/or some sort of religious assurances can be therapeutic I think.