It honestly depends on the therapist.
Some believe that you need to talk about every incident in detail, grieve it and mourn it. They teach you skills to get you thru the weeks. Sometimes it is most intense and you have multiple sessions be week or extended sessions. It's very difficult hard work, but it's believed that in the end you will be better.
Another approach is to leave the trauma be and focus on changing your life and the way you handle things. If pieces or parts of the trauma come up you discuss them, but it is not an intense process of digging into the past. It's still difficult hard work, but skills help you to maintain your life while in therapy. They believe that it is re-traumatizing to relive every event, and seek to focus on the current and future.
I see a trauma specialist. The past comes up occasionally, be we focus on my emotions and symptom control. It has been more helpful to me than any other therapy I have tried (and I have tried quite a few).
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