By 3 p.m. on Sept. 10, my phone was blowing up with the news of conservative activist and radio host Charlie Kirk having been shot at a college campus event.

It dominated the conversations between my clients and me for the next two days.

“Did you hear about Charlie Kirk?” they would ask. “I did. Did you watch the video?" I’d ask.

Most teens and young adults had seen the footage, now pulled down from media platforms, of the shooting.

“What was that like for you?” I asked them all.

Responses were mostly similar. Horrible, traumatizing and terrible were words used. Many expressed sentiments of disbelief and described their shocked state even days later. That’s understandable. Our psyche is not meant to witness such things, and when it does, it can experience trauma.

Trauma occurs when w

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