My situation is a little different so i am not sure that it will help , but i will tell you anyway. As far as i know i have always known what happened to me at the hands of my uncle. I am 41 now , but the abuse was from very early on till age 11. About 2 yrs ago my therpaist suggested that i tell my mom what happened to me as a child during a session , so we scheduled it a few weeks later. I did manage to get through the session and did tell my mom generally what happened (no details) , basically that i was a survivor of csa . Anyway it was hard on me , pretty hard on my mom , and at one point the therapist asked my mom if she could give me a hug ... after about 5 times being asked and me feeling awful about the whole thing mom finally did hug me , but it was forced . And since then nothing has ever been mentioned . So for me i dont think it helped much at all.