IN 2020, Anna Coutts-Trotter asked her counsellor for a referral to a peer support group for survivors of sexual violence, only to find out that they didn’t exist.

“She just said I’d love to and I think you’d really benefit from it and survivors would really benefit from it, but they don’t exist, so if you want to do that you’ll have to start it yourself,” she said.

Ms Coutts-Trott...