I know if a person wants to recover from something traumatic (ie abuse), they need to be open about it and work through it with a therapist.... But the thing that has always held me back from completely disclosing is whether or not it would be a requirement on the part of the therapist to report it to the authorities (in UK)...?

This isn't in any way to protect or shield a perpetrator, but to safeguard myself.

I have so far tried talking about it with 2 different therapists and also a specialist counsellor from RASA... I've got to a certain point but couldn't get any further with any of them.

I really need to just offload and work through all the crap going round in my head, knowing that it won't go any further - but I don't have enough trust in anybody to be able to do that.

Any ideas?