It's sexual harassment depending upon the severity of it, in a school setting in front of other people that's the category I'm going to assume it falls in, but it all depends on the details. Verbal would definitely be in this category, beyond that it would probably go into one of the ones below--but I could be off.

Sexual assault, as I understand it, is more physical--like someone beats you up and then tries to feel you up and you don't necessarily know them, or someone just attacks you in a sexual manner (and I use the term attack loosely).
Sexual abuse usually refers to authority figures who take advantage but can also be a relationship centric thing, I think it gets the abuse label because it's usually ongoing and typically involves people that are familiar to the individual. Typically it's not a one time event.

You really should talk with your therapist about this, I would definitely be taking advantage of the whole safespace thing if I were you, it'll help.

Also, is there anyone at school you could report this too? I suppose it depends on what exactly happened, but no one should be doing anything that could be categorized in any of the above ways in a school setting and be getting away with it.

I don't even know what else to say about this other than that I'm sorry you had to deal with that sort of thing.

If it happened at school and there are witnesses, it seems like your first stop is to tell the principal or someone what happened, and get them punished. therapy is fine and all, but sometimes there is a more immediate concern. I mean, you feel violated, embarassed, etc., etc., that's all fine and normal, but first stop is to do something about it. That's more therapeutic.

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