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bchlyn said:
what i want to know is how do i keep from getting triggered... how do i deal with the emotions... and triggers...

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Your T didn't answer this for you? I'll explain what I did with sort of a similar situation and see if you can pull out anything that might help.

I suffered from anxiety. Situations would trigger my anxiety. What I did was when I was triggered was tell myself right at that moment that I was safe here now in the present. I would continue to tell myself that the situation was just triggering my feelings from the past and that the past did not exist anymore except in my memory (nothing specific happened to me that was being triggered. I just grew up in an emotionally insecure home). I did this every time and every time my feelings were triggered less and less until finally I am no longer triggered anymore. It is basically retraining my nervous system (just like it was trained in the first place). To do this you have to be aware of what is going on with you.

Do you know what some of your triggers are?