Oh I see, so not near the max dose
Was it Venlafaxine that you took in the past?
If your therapy is private, I'm sorry but I do question how it works when someone feels they have money to gain from keeping patients long term. You mention trauma. I won't ask, but I lost friends in a terror attack and some people immediately jumped to "you need therapy". I had one free session provided by work. It was useless. I then had to decide whether or not pay but I felt instinctively it wasn't a good idea.
In terms of trauma, I'd say that terror attack, and an accident where I sustained a spinal injury, are the two traumas of my life thus far. I also had people suggesting I might have PSTD after my father's awful long death, and the doctor called me twice to suggest therapy.
I declined. Again, we are all different, but I am not in a situation where I believe therapy would benefit me - though health professionals feel differently.
I did see a good private therapist a couple of times when I began caring for mum, but what I really needed to do was stop caring for mum! Anyway, I couldn't afford more sessions and I knew the answer, but sadly and stupidly carried on caring for mum till my breakdown.
Are you getting the right kind of therapy as well?
To offer a balancing perspective, my now ex-boyfriend, the really young one, had therapy as a teen and he thinks it was brilliant. I didn't know him before then but he can give concrete examples of how it helped him.