LGBTQ+

When people think about trauma, they often imagine a single overwhelming event: an accident, an assault, a natural disaster, or another experience that threatens a person's safety. These experiences can absolutely be traumatic. But trauma can also develop in a different way. Sometimes trauma is not the result of one major event. Instead, it emerges from repeated experiences of being dismissed, rejected, misunderstood, devalued, or told—directly or indirectly—that who you are