Any good therapist, particularly a trauma therapist, will spend time, often quite a good bit of time on safety first, helping you develop coping or grounding strategies that you can use to soothe yourself if memories become overwhelming, before you actually start work on processing any trauma.

The goal of trauma therapy is not to overwhelm you, or necessarily dig through every detail of the past, but to look at how the past trauma impacts your life today, and work on improving that.

I know trauma therapy can be scary, and it is really hard and intense, but it can be really helpful.

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