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You could look into ACT and EMDR. DBT is pretty common, but not quite as helpful for PTSD as the other two. Good luck! Feel free to message me if you need more advice. I've done years of therapy and am going to school to become a therapist.

EMDR

I agree with Lianna, EMDR is incredibly intense, and I would not suggest it as a first step but incredibly helpful. DBT is great for learning grounding and coping skills, which you need before EMDR because EMDR puts you back into the trauma to process and work through it. Look into trauma therapy programs if you can. It might be called Phase 1 Trauma or something similar. I also have PTSD (technically C-PTSD) along with psychosis, and did therapy for many years. The first thing my psychiatrist and therapist got me into was a Phase 1 trauma program. It taught DBT, mindfulness, and coping strategies. It was a group therapy that dealt with everything around the trauma; feelings, outcomes, triggers. It was the first step for us to be able to bring ourselves back to the present, learn about how trauma affects the brain and body, and be able to re-center ourselves before going to individual programs that let us deal with the trauma directly. Some never needed to move to Phase 2.

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I did like 7 years of counselling, multiple bouts of group therapy sessions with other women in similar boats and when it got really bad took medications as a temporary measure. Finding a good trauma therapist can be helpful in addition to other types of methods.

@Kai I did EMDR and it was too much for me, at least at that time.

@Lianna, it's not right for everyone, and you really have to be in the right place to do it. It's so intense, it brings up so much, and you have to be able to bring yourself back to centre/present to do it. I did several sessions, and it worked SO well for me, but it's intense. I did a lot of reading about it before I started, and I read about people's experiences. One that freaked me out was there was someone who talked about peeing themself during their first session because it was so intense. It's definitely not a first step type thing, but when it works, it really works. It forces both sides of the brain to deal with the trauma instead of just emotions, it forces your logic to process it too, which is why it works so well, but it's rough.

I really don’t want anything intense . I’m currently pregnant and I just want good therapy , I need true healing and I want someone to talk to , I like art therapy I’ve heard of it but I’m not sure if it works with trauma

Art therapy can work with trauma. Most trauma stuff can get intense to some degree because trauma is intense. Lower stress that works, I'd say look into DBT. It focusses on bringing you back to reality, mindfulness, recognizing when you're getting into negative spirals and such and skills to bring you out of it. Identifying "incorrect" or negative thinking, particularly about yourself, and showing yourself that it's biased in some way. It's called Thinking Mistakes (that's what I was taught it's called). It's things like black and white thinking, catastrophizing, stuff like that.