Trauma therapy is a type of counseling that helps you work through difficult, frightening, or painful experiences that continue to affect your life. Trauma can come from many situations, including abuse, accidents, loss, unhealthy relationships, or other overwhelming experiences. Even when something happened years ago,...
A trauma trigger is something that reminds your brain or body of a past traumatic experience . Sometimes the connection is obvious. Other times, you may react strongly and not immediately understand why. A trigger can be a sound, smell, place, person, date, conversation, touch,...
Trauma therapy can look different depending on the type of trauma, your symptoms, and what feels comfortable for you. Some approaches involve talking in detail about what happened. Others focus more on your thoughts, body reactions, coping skills, or the way your brain responds to...
Trauma can continue affecting you long after a painful or frightening experience has ended. Sometimes, the connection is obvious. Other times, you may notice changes in your emotions, relationships, or reactions without realizing they may be connected to something you went through in the past....