For me, things got worse and, ultimately, have not gotten a lot better. I'm guessing that it was that the early therapists I saw did NOT understand trauma as they do now, and thus messed things up, in addition to adding their own trauma because I was seeking "help", in the ways authorized by our society, and got hurt instead.

I did eventually get to the core of a lot of stuff with my last therapist, a specialist in trauma and dissociation, but she had her own stuff, too, which eventually led to a rupture without repair.

It sounds like you are moving forward well with a therapist who understands trauma. For me looking backward, I ignored and didn't know what to do about a number of "red flags" and intuitions about the therapists -- because of emotions and parts of myself that had been dissociated due to my early childhood trauma!

Not that you asked, but from my perspective something that might be good at the end of the trauma road is help getting back into society, or into it really for the first time. In my experience, individual therapy is not enough for that, and my long history of "being worse" eliminated a lot of my involvement with other people, either because I turned them off or, later, because I isolated myself.