Sometimes, a small moment, a tone of voice, a phrase, a look, can stir a deep emotional response that feels much larger than what's just happened. This isn't an overreaction. It's the body and mind responding as if a past trauma is happening again. I don't see this as irrational, but as meaningful. Trauma isn't just a memory stored in the brain, it lives in language, in the body, and in the unconscious, often without clear words.
In therapy, we make space for these fragments. You don�t need to know what to say or have it all figured out. The work begins when you speak freely, and I listen. Together, we begin to locate what has been difficult to name or represent. This is not about fixing you, but about allowing what has been buried to be spoken and heard.