I don't think it's the answer and a lot of the time it can make us worse. I have been reading the Peter Levin book, waking the tiger about trauma and he seems to think therapy does not work and in most cases can re traumatise the client as they are forced to talk about the trauma and in essence they start to relive it. He suggests and u have done a bit about this in my therapy training that there are certain trauma releasing exercises that release the pent up energy we store from experiencing trauma.
The reason animals recover so fast and self heal is that their bodies shake after a trauma and release the energy straight away but we humans don't so this and we carry our trauma until we can successfully release it.
The body remembers everything and our cells store every memory even the ones our mind tries to forget. Our body never lies and most of our language in therapy is through body language, 70%. Which, I believe is one of the reasons gestalt is so effective as it mostly does body work.
So, what I am trying to say in a long winded kind of way is these alternative therapies are very effective for releasing trauma and sometimes talking is not the answer