I agree that it's all trauma work on some level. I think for me and my T, we will refer to "doing trauma work" as the sessions where we actually talk (or attempt to...) about specific trauma. Those are the trauma sessions, i guess. I think what I'm doing is prolonged exposure? Some sort of exposure, anyway.

I think my T knows EMDR but has never mentioned it to me and for some reason it doesn't sound like something I'd want to do. We're just working on me being able to talk about one specific trauma, although I have multiple traumas and god knows if we'll ever even touch on it all.

We're sort of taking a break from actually talking about the trauma, for the past 2 weeks, but that hasn't helped reduce my flashbacks or other ptsd symptoms. I really think I just need to process this in order to get any relief at all. So on Monday at my next session I'm actually hoping we will start trauma work again, although I don't know what my T has planned or what she's thinking. I guess I'll find out!