Look for a therapist that has 10+ years of experience with PTSD and childhood trauma and choose a male or female the gender your most comfortable with. I found triggers by keeping a journal and reading it to my therapist.  If I see a child being slapped in the store, it maybe just something I taste in food or a smell in the room. I write all these things down. The hardest for me was talking about the shame. It took almost 8 months to tell him my darkest secrets. Secrets were the things that most troubled me. I trusted no one but if they did not come out I knew I would stay sick. These were not just bad things that happened to me but what I did to others. What I have learned is I must live only in the day. Yesterday is history and tomorrow is a mystery so all I have is the here and now. Remember you can start your day over at 2 in the afternoon. Today I must learn what I’m grateful for now.  So I’m sending you rainbows. Give yourself a hug.