You’re Not Sentenced to Suffer! Why Trauma Therapy Works

Naomi Berry

October 18, 2016

Trauma

Trauma can be defined as any event that causes an unusually high level of emotional stress and has a long lasting negative effect on a person. However, it is your subjective emotional experience of an event that determines whether it was traumatic, not the objective facts of the event itself.

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