How long therapy takes for trauma depends on the severity of your trauma symptoms.  For some clients, that means a few months. For other clients, it means a few years. When trying to figure out how long trauma therapy takes, it can be frustrating to hear “it depends” from every single therapist you talk to (but it’s true). In an attempt to not be super annoying, and just say, “it depends” (which it does). I have created some general estimates for how long therapy takes for PTSD and trauma.

Janelle Aguilon, PMHNP is a psychiatric nurse practitioner here to talk about her experience how antidepressants and other psychiatric medications can be integrated to improve your progress in trauma-based therapy. Thinking about starting medicine can be scary, so she’ll be addressing common concerns for first timers.