What is trauma anyway?
What is trauma anyway?
Helping clients deal with and heal from their traumatic experiences is at the very heart of the work that I do. Assisting clients to understand what trauma is and how it is impacting their lives is probably the first step for many of them because oftentimes they have accessed our mental health care system (I’m writing from an Australian perspective here, though believe this to be indicative of many other ‘western’ countries) they have had their symptoms assessed and have probably come out the other side with a clinical diagnosis. This starts with a presumption of their being something wrong with a person.