No retelling the worst day. No homework between sessions. Just a quiet, guided experience at a screen — designed to feel safe from the first moment to the last.
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Before you begin
A short, reassuring orientation explains what a session is and isn’t, and reminds you that you stay in control—you can pause or stop at any point. There’s nothing you have to talk through or relive out loud.
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During the session
You open a session on a laptop or desktop using a one-time access code, then follow a self-guided, game-based task for about twenty minutes. Traumalis is designed for a quiet setting and doesn’t run on mobile devices.
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How the mechanic works
The task gently occupies the part of your mind that intrusive images rely on—the brain’s visual workspace—drawing on the same imagery-competing mechanism studied since the original Tetris research. As that space is taken up, the images gradually lose their intensity.
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What relief feels like
Distress usually eases during the session itself, and many people describe images that feel less sharp, less frequent, and easier to set down. Change is gradual and gentle rather than dramatic, and it tends to keep settling over the following days.
You stay in control the whole way.
You can pause or stop at any point. There’s no right or wrong way to do a session, and
nothing you have to say out loud. If now isn’t the right time, that’s okay too.
