The trauma of her assault is the subject of Ms. Dhegrae’s four-concert Processing Series, which opens on Saturday at National Sawdust in Brooklyn. The series attempts to shed light on the complex relationship between mind and body. At the core of each concert is a new work written for Ms. Dhegrae that is intended to be both about healing and actively therapeutic for the performer.

Therapeutic both mentally and physically: Soon after that 2013 performance of “Dithyramb,” Ms. Dhegrae, the founder of the Resonant Bodies Festival of contemporary vocal music, found she could no longer sing. Doctors diagnosed her with paresis of the vocal folds, a muscular dysfunction. When her voice teacher heard about it, she advised Ms. Dhegrae against letting anyone know, arguing that even to mention such a condition could endanger her career.

“It was like going through the rape again,” said Ms. Dhegrae. “It was that same sense of: ‘Hide this thing that happened to you. Don’t talk to anyone about it.’ You are dealing with this huge personal crisis but feeling shamed about it and completely alone.”

The body of work she has commissioned for the Processing Series is designed to reflect the multiplicity of approaches that helped her. These include meditation and breathwork, internal family systems (I.F.S.) therapy , eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (E.M.D.R.), and self-defense training.