Clients are often surprised when I tell them that we won’t be actively working to bring their trauma history to the surface in therapy. It’s not that we wouldn’t ever want to do that—when the time is ...

One morning 20 years ago, my brother died unexpectedly. He was 37 years old, healthy, married with two kids. I was a trauma veteran already at that point, living with full-fledged PTSD symptoms from ...