I've never done trauma work per se. In fact, I'm not even sure what that is. My story came out in bits and bits, and we spend a lot of time focusing on now.

I can't remember a single session where all we did was talk about the past and what happened to me.

It's just a tool to help me understand where I am right now. It was all so gradual.

That doesn't mean that there weren't times in therapy when I was miserable - there certainly were, but I never felt re-traumatized. Quite the opposite actually. De-traumatized might be a better term.