I would not do prolonged exposure. My understanding is that you expose yourself to the trigger over and over and figure you will get over the reactive-ness to the trigger. For me, exposure like that would be too frightening and retraumatizing. But I suppose that depends on what triggers you. For example, if I was triggered by spiders, I would be ok with getting closer to spiders. But my trauma has to do with people being nasty and I have no desire to ever be ok with that.

CBT has been helpful to me in that it challenges me to think about what I am thinking and then decide if it is true. For example, today T1 was being kind of a dolt at the beginning of my session. I immediately leaped to the conclusion that he was rejecting and abandoning me. When I stopped to think things thru, I was able to see that he is just trying to condense his schedule because he has family visiting him.