If you don’t feel comfortable opening up ― yes, even dumping ― to your therapists, you’re not going to get what you need out of the process. If your therapist is making you feel like you’re oversharing, that’s a red flag, that they’re not the therapist for you. If you don’t feel comfortable opening up ― yes, even dumping ― to your therapists, you’re not going to get what you need out of the process.Įnsuring you’ve found the right therapist can help. “This video could potentially trigger some clients to take on caretaker roles with their therapist, in fear of overloading them.”
“Many trauma survivors take on caretaker roles in their normal lives, looking after other people in the way that they wish they had been looked after before or during their traumatic experience,” Bailey said. “It is upsetting to think that a therapist would say things that would turn people away from getting help or reinforce more shame and judgment because of what they experienced.”
“If a therapist doesn’t have the skills, training and supervision to handle receiving information from a client, they should not work with people who have experienced trauma,” Kellerman said. Plus, trauma - especially when it’s unresolved - can lead to serious challenges such as eating disorders and self-harm. “The viral TikTok video insinuates that this type of sharing in session is ‘wrong’ and ‘bad,’ which may lead some viewers to not disclose their traumas for fear of trauma dumping.”Īccording to a study in the European Journal of Psychotraumatology, traumatic life events are associated with suicidality, especially with men. “This is so unbelievably dangerous because individuals who experience traumatic events should be seeking out mental health professionals,” Katz said. A study in Psychological Medicine found that stigma is a major reason why people avoid getting help.
What is especially concerning about Glance’s TikTok video is that a therapist’s apparent dismissiveness of a client’s trauma could deter many people who aren’t in therapy from getting necessary treatment. Therefore, trauma dumping does not exist in therapy.” Don’t believe anyone who implies you should censor yourself in therapy. “Sometimes the therapist might need to help the client slow down the narrative so that the work can happen on a deeper level, but essentially all trauma is welcome to be spoken about. “Therapy is the one space where you do not have to censor your trauma,” Bailey said. There really should be no such thing as “trauma dumping” in a therapy session. With your therapist, it’s their job to listen when you talk about your trauma ― despite what may have been implied in the viral TikTok video. It describes “when a person, unprompted, shares or ‘dumps’ highly-personal, emotionally-charged, trauma-based information or a story on someone who is not a willing recipient,” said Kelly Kellerman, a licensed clinical social worker with Thriveworks in Michigan, who added: “It’s also referred to as oversharing.” “Trauma dumping” is a buzzword on Twitter and a breakout term online, according to Google Trends. Not surprisingly, many other therapists (and people in general) posted their own videos in response, explaining how problematic and hurtful her message was and wondering why Glance would apparently disparage a client for talking about their traumatic experiences. If you’re on the therapy side of TikTok, you may have seen a viral video posted by therapist Ilene Glance that drew so much backlash, she has since deleted her account, titled the clip “When a client wants to trauma dump first session” and captioned it “Not happening on my watch ever again.”
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