Charlene: Absolutely. About 80% of the clients that I see have trauma. This is always a really tricky subject because a lot of times when I bring up the word “trauma” in a session, people can get very defensive and say, “No, no, I haven’t had an trauma. My childhood was great. Everything was wonderful.” So it’s really challenging sometimes to bring the defenses down. There is a type of therapy called EMDR which treats trauma. It was used to PTSD mostly. They described Shapiro who’s the one that founded it, separates Big Ts from Little Ts, big trauma from little traumas.

Little traumas are more of the emotional abuse, the neglect, the abandonment, witnessing domestic violence in the home, bring raised by alcoholic parents or addict parents. Any type of addiction in the home. I see a lot of that. The big traumas can be going to war, domestic violence on the person, being raped. A lot of the clients that I see have a lot of the Little Ts and I use a lot of different modalities. I use EMDR which is basically desensitizing and reprocessing and re-installing healthy …