Welcome to psych central. The good news about PTSD is that it is treatable, although it usually takes a while. And yes it usually does involve talking about the trauma. But a good T will work with you slowly, builiding up trust and your own coping strategies, so it's very unlikely on the first session that you'd just plunge head first into the trauma right away. When my T put together my treatment plan, we were doing EMDR, it kind of involved laying out my life story and included things like key relationships with my parents, that we could work through. We didn't always work linearly, although overal we did work in a linear fashion, but I always got to chose the next target to work on, and we did lots of work on staying grounded in between hard targets too which kept me feeling safe.

Hope it goes well for you.
--splitimage