For me trauma work has been very body-focused, the idea being that we hold feelings in our bodies, often in unconscious ways. You actually don’t have to talk about traumatic events for this to be useful. It’s a kind of embodied mindfulness.

Like you might learn to notice that you go in and out of states of freeze or panic (for eg) at various times in an ordinary week and then learn to “be with” those feelings or states rather than just have them happen to you. It takes practice.

Re: the earlier question of whether neglect is trauma, I think traditional psychiatry made little of the need for attachment and attunement in the developing human. The definition of trauma was based on men returning from war. But we’re starting to see that differently. Also for people who are wired to be more sensitive, non-attachment is more devastating than for the majority of the population.