Trauma does not always look the way people expect. It can show up years after an event, in hypervigilance, in emotional numbness, in patterns of avoidance or self-protection that once made sense but now get in the way. What happened to you matters, and so does how it is still affecting your daily life.
Recovery work is not about reliving everything in detail. It is about understanding how the experience has shaped your nervous system and your thinking, and gradually building a different relationship to those memories and reactions. Sessions might include grounding techniques to help you regulate overwhelming feelings, approaches to identifying and interrupting trauma-based thought patterns, and work to slowly rebuild a sense of safety and trust, in yourself and in your connections to others.