When I first started trauma work with my therapist this summer, I had no idea what to expect. Most of my previous knowledge of “trauma processing” either came from highly dramatized television shows or social media threads about eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), and my therapist had made it very clear that my work with her would look nothing like those examples.
Instead, my therapist and I spent an entire session discussing the three forms of trauma treatment she thought would best work for me, and together we mapped out my treatment plan.
Like most other types of therapeutic modalities, trauma treatment rarely starts with any of the “heavy lifting.” In fact, the first several weeks of trauma work involved learning
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