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Pilatus said:
How do you make the most of your therapy sessions and deal with the aftermath of traumatic memories that are brought up after the session is over?

</div></font></blockquote><font class="post">I think that is a great question to ask your T! I bet he/she will have some good coping strategies specific to your trauma. Once, when I was sharing some of my childhood trauma in therapy, I needed some way to cope between sessions, and my T had me practice a coping technique in his office before I left to make sure I could do it so I could use it later on my own. He had me imagine the traumatic event, draw a circle around it in my mind and then step inside, as me, the adult, and rescue the little girl inside and bring her outside of the circle. The trauma remained inside the circle and couldn't "get us" once we were outside. Then, between sessions, if the memory should resurface, I would perform the rescue. I found this really helpful.

Also, sometimes in sessions we do EMDR and that is really helpful at resolving trauma. The memories get reprocessed and really retreat after you have done it.