Therapy is not all about trauma.

Surprising isn’t it? But while trauma, the processing of big T trauma and little T trauma is a huge part of why you may come to therapy, therapy is also about validating the realness and the reasonableness of your struggle today, right here in the present day, in whatever natural form that takes.

Having your struggles and challenges witnessed, validated and supported by another human being, who really and truly gets, can feel like such a huge relief. To know you’re not alone in whatever it is that’s happening has an immediately regulating and reassuring effect. There may be roots of whatever is happening in historical trauma and these roots may make it harder for you to resource and move through the present difficulties, but it’s not always the case.

So many times an emotional struggle is actually a reasonable response to an unreasonable situation. And life over the last few years has launched many of us into so many unreasonable situations.

In short, there are way too many pinch points and not enough resources to go around.

So please know that whatever emotional challenge you’re facing, it will likely be a reasonable response to an unreasonable situation. Ordinary in the extraordinary.