Wildfire, your therapist is correct, and this is why. If your within a place of insecurity, you have no safe place to return and calm yourself. Without this safe place to return, what happens, is when you are dealing with your trauma, you are moving into extreme territory in your symptoms, because dealing with your fears invokes all your symptoms again, and if you have other areas that are also provoking unneccessary symptom spikes, then you can easily tip yourself over and land within hospital, which then gives you a further complex that you can't face your fears because it landed you in hospital.

Surroundings are a big part of recovery when you begin trauma therapy. It is like trying to have an alcoholic do trauma therapy... it doesn't work, becuase they are merely suppressing with alcohol instead of fully dealing with trauma, and at the same time, depressing themselves as alcohol is a depressant, thus with a huge symptom spike from trauma therapy, the person could end up dead from alcohol poisoning, increased suicide rate, hospitalized, and back to the same issue above, in now being fearful about dealing with trauma again.

A person must not be self medicating and must have a safe environment when doing trauma therapy.