Steps Toward Understanding and Recovery

Known and Trusted with Anna Sonoda, LCSW

Welcome to Known and Trusted-the podcast that changes how we think about grooming prevention and child safety. 

Hosted by Anna Sonoda, LCSW, a grooming prevention expert and former therapist to convicted offenders, this series takes listeners inside the world of trust, influence, and safety in families and communities.

Who should listen?

• Parents who want to raise confident, safe, and aware kids.
   
• Educators, coaches, and youth leaders looking for clear, practical tools.
   
• Therapists, advocates, and policymakers committed to prevention.
   

What will you gain?

• Real-world insights into how grooming works-and how it hides in plain sight.
   
• Survivor stories that reveal patterns others miss.
   
• Clear strategies to strengthen your family’s safety net without fear-based messaging.
   
• A new lens on trust, how to recognize it, protect it, and teach it to kids.
   

Why this podcast?
Because grooming prevention is the next parenting revolution. 

Every download, every share, and every conversation helps shift our culture from silence to safety. 

Together, we can make grooming visible before harm occurs.

A new lens on trust, how to recognize it, protect it, and teach it to kids.
 

Call for Stories 

If you are a survivor of child sexual abuse, a parent, a professional, or someone whose life was affected by grooming, 

I invite you to share your story anonymously.

Why share?
Your voice can:

• Show how grooming really works.
   
• Help parents, kids, and professionals see patterns earlier.
   
• Shift the culture from silence to safety.
   

Your choice, your voice.
You decide how much or how little you share, and the way your story is told.

👉 Please use the attached PDF for contributor instructions to share your story your way.

Together, these stories can build a world where grooming is visible and preventable.