Healing from Medical Trauma: What Therapy Can Offer

Written By Jackie Williams

Healing from medical trauma doesn’t mean forgetting—it means integrating. Therapy can help you reconnect with your body, rebuild trust, and develop tools for navigating future care.

Approaches may include:

• EMDR for trauma processing

• Somatic therapy to reconnect with the body

• Narrative therapy to re-author your story

• Psychoeducation to understand trauma responses

You are not broken. You are responding to a system that often fails to listen. Therapy is a space to be heard, held, and supported.

Begin your healing journey with the “Reflecting on Medical Trauma” worksheet—designed to help you name your experience and explore next steps.

Jackie Williams
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