i went to a training by someone heavily influenced by babette rothschild and she said the same thing. peter levine is also in that camp. i think he said that most trauma work being done is at best useless and at worst re-traumatizing (im paraphrasing)...that was a real eye-opener for me!

im not emdr trained, but as it was explained to me by an expert, it comes in three phases....resourcing, trauma processing and trauma integration. at that training, the woman stated that most people stop at the resourcing....for most people, thats good enough. they dont go on.

resourcing is when the client and therapist work to build coping skills and recognize triggers and when its working well, the client starts to feel able to handle things that may come up and builds confidence in their ability to bring themselves back from a flashback or engage their parasympathetic nervous system when they get into fight/flight/freeze mode or just plain recognize that they arent actually experiencing the trauma presently when they feel triggered.

its the most important part of trauma work. i dont know that a lot of therapists spend enough time with it....its a big deal.