Our Founder's Story
Vicki Williams
Executive Director
Vicki Williams
Founder of Selah Empowers
Vicki’s passion for starting SELAH was born out of her own personal experience with domestic abuse. She experienced the truly confusing and insidious nature of abuse which often begins with behaviors such as jealousy, manipulation, or gaslighting and then escalates to isolation, threats, verbal abuse, emotional abuse or event physical and sexual abuse.
It was Vicki’s desire for SELAH to be a safe place for each person to share their experience and receive the help and support they needed. She wanted to combat the feelings of loneliness, feeling silenced, and unwanted anxiety coming from being in a place others couldn’t comprehend. She wanted to create a place to release those paralyzed in fear and unable to move forward.
Participant Stories
Fearful and Silent
I came to SELAH after going to five different counselors trying to figure out what was happening to me in my marriage. A friend of mine suggested I attend SELAH. Without really knowing what to expect, I showed up and talked to one of the directors who shared some resources with me and invited me to one of their meetings. After learning about the Power and Control Wheel along with the behaviors that abusers use, I realized that for 30 years I had been experiencing abuse within