trauma work
Processing painful memories
Trauma work is therapeutic practice focused on helping people process and heal from traumatic experiences.
The term covers both the professional's activity and the client's effort: a therapist does trauma work with patients, while survivors do their own trauma work in recovery.
She's been doing a lot of trauma work in therapy lately.
The phrase acknowledges that healing from trauma requires sustained, often difficult effort—it's work.
- healingRestoration of health
- PTSDChronic reaction to horrific events
- therapyCurative mental treatment
- recoveryRegaining what was lost
- processingSystematic operation on data
flashbacks · triggers · fight or flight · somatic · felt sense · grief · wounds · resilience · emotional release · survival · memories · nightmares · body · safety · safe space · boundaries · release · integration
- therapypsychotherapy, therapist, session, counselor, group therapy
- child psychotherapyplay therapy, Melanie Klein, art therapy, sand tray, sandplay
- healingmeditation, emotional healing, yoga, tissue repair, mindfulness
- self-growthself-awareness, self-discovery, self-reflection, introspection, growth mindset
- Dissociationdissociation, depersonalization, derealization, multiple personality disorder, alter
- family therapyfamily therapy, family counseling, family dynamics, marriage therapy, relationship counseling
trauma workavoidance
Deliberate keeping away
suppression · repression · denial · dissociation · numbing
trauma workretraumatization
Renewed experience of past trauma
stagnation · acting out · reenactment · substance abuse · self-destructive behavior
trauma, work, traumas, traumatic, traumatically, traumatize, traumatized, traumatizing, traumatization