When Elham Salah first began her training to be a psychological counselor, she thought that she would be helping local women cope with the effects of domestic and other gender-based violence. However, after almost three years of working at the Jiyan Foundation—a small group in Iraqi Kurdistan that specializes in women’s issues—she has become intimately acquainted with the fallout from the region’s brutal wars.

Almost all of her patients now are Yazidi women who have been liberated—or escaped—from captivity by ISIS, or the so-called “Islamic State.”

“At first, most of my patients were experiencing abuse from someone they knew,” Salah told The Daily Beast, carefully describing her clientele. “It was something we have seen before.”

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