The Importance of Trauma-Informed Therapy

Jessica is a 24-year-old woman who was sexually abused by her father as a child. She has no academic degree of any kind since she's only ever been homeschooled. Jessica finds a really good trauma-informed therapist and begins to learn the language of trauma, dissociation, compartmentalization, hyper vigilance. The work that we immediately jumped into is like, where do you start? There's 24 years to address. It felt like, all right, I got away with my life. I'm going to try to start over.