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Gabor Maté, MD: from the archives

The Trauma Therapist

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The Importance of Trauma in Therapy

A lot of therapists are for a variety of reasons, don't want to look at trauma. I did not meet a single female patient in the downtown inside of Vancouver who had not been sexually abused. And some of us get into the helping professions precisely to get away from our own job. Yeah. It's because they're not comfortable with their own pain. They haven't dealt with it. They're afraid of what it'll trigger for them.

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