You have the right to feel safe at home and in your relationship. If something doesn’t feel right – even if you don’t want to call it domestic abuse – there are people in Shetland who can help you.
FIND OUT MOREWe provide advice, counselling, practical support, and emotional support to women, young people, and children affected by domestic abuse in our community.
We also deliver specialist prevention education and training across Shetland, helping to raise awareness of domestic abuse and build a safer future for everyone.
Pushing, kicking, slapping, chocking, denying sleep, withholding food or medicine, forcing you to use drugs or alcohol, harming your pets.
Gaslighting, jealousy, humiliation, guilt-tripping, isolated from family and friends
Name calling, derogatory language, shouting or screaming at you or your children
Sex without consent, sexual assault, sexual blackmail, forcing you to watch pornography, sharing of images without consent
Withholding money, not giving you access to bank accounts, preventing you from having a job
Threatening behaviour, controlling who you can talk to, threats to harm you or themselves, making you dependant on them, not allowing you to do what you want
Watching your social media accounts, using technology to monitor your movements, pressuring you to give them your passwords, not being allowed access to technology
We provide counselling and support to women and children who have experienced domestic abuse.
We offer temporary and safe accommodation for women and their families at our refuge, away from their abusive situation
We are a confidential service. Your information and story will not be shared with anyone outside Shetland Women’s Aid.
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