Understanding Trauma

We asked our Clinical Psychologist, Dr Rhiannon Mulcahy…What is trauma? 

 “Trauma is psychological response to a distressing or disturbing event. We often think of trauma as having gone through a life-threatening event – but that’s not the case. It is anything that would cause our body to surge into a flight or fight mode. This psychological response includes not only what is going on in the brain but also in the body and how that has to respond and change in order to survive that event.”