Hi Anthony, I honestly don't know, as I haven't experienced trauma therapy (yet) and haven't had positive experiences re therapy apart from a lot of years ago and this week! Did a lot of years of carework, but all I can refer back to in answering you is that all that was in my mind was either myself being sensitive in handling others or sometimes being handled sensitively, and how that sometimes was helpful to someone else or myself.

I just hope that trauma therapy is approached with sensitivity in every case. Unless you meant in relation to the question, in which case all I feel is that it's a very fine line regarding pushing someone. I suppose if they were someone very close and who you absolutely knew always kept things in and that this always damaged them, then very gentle encouragement towards therapy could really help them. I've just realised I probably had in mind the term 'encouragement' rather than 'push' when I was posting. I find it difficult to think in terms of pushing someone, as I never want to push anyone against what's right for them, or to risk interfering with their growth process. I suppose if someone has said to push them if they start to struggle and it becomes obvious they need help, I'd manage that, but that would only be if they had specifically said to do that.

Cat