How to Approach Sexual Trauma With Your Therapist

There are some therapists that are not trained in trauma actually so before you speak to sexual say about sexual trauma to your therapist you might want to ask them questions about the training and their experience. Even if your therapist is trauma trained there might be something about your therapist that reminds you of your abuser it could be the gender or they semi-color it could be the same tone of voice right? You don't want to launch into it just go very slow just want a little bit at a time only the little bit that you feel okay to say, she says. "The best way to talk about the trauma without retromatizing yourself is by very small little bits and pieces"

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