T probably knows how to do this, but she may need feedback from you to figure out when and how to do it.

For me, when I start to space out, I say so and we back off the trauma discussion and either it silently for a while, if I can without spacing out worse, or we discuss something non-threatening. Sometimes I just ask T to talk for a while and I focus on his voice as I come back to myself. Some days--a lot of days, when we first began the trauma work--I would check out at the very beginning of the session and we'd have to stop the trauma talk. I felt like a failure, like I was wasting my time in there. Now I can see that I was learning what a safe place therapy is. When I got overwhelmed, I was allowed to take care of myself/be taken care of. T wasn't going to push me where I didn't want to go. He wasn't going to reproduce the dynamics of the abuse.

For me, titration was all about learning to trust my own mind and feelings instead of pushing myself where I wasn't yet ready to go.