The goal of treatment is to get to a place where symptoms are having less of a negative impact on your life, to help reduce suffering, and to improve functioning and quality of your life.
Questions to ask and things to look for when exploring trauma therapy:
If you are searching on the Internet with at a site such as www.psychologytoday.com, type in your location and use ‘trauma’ or ‘PTSD’ as well as any other filters identifying your top issues that you are wanting to address in therapy.
Are you feeling safe, respected, and understood in your relationship with your therapist? If you are not feeling like it is a good fit after a few visits, then you can always consider choosing a different clinician.
Questions to ask if you have been in therapy for an extended period of time:
The APA reports that some of the below evidence-based treatment modalities have shown benefit: you can find brief description of many of the therapies listed below here.
15 different mobile apps categorized into 3 areas: