At Lighthouse Psychotherapy Malta the Team believes that pain is inherited because trauma does not always dissolve on its own or diminish with time.  Even if the person who suffered the original trauma is gone, even if his or her story lies submerged, and rests out of awareness in years of silence, fragments of life experience, memory and body sensation can live-on.  The Team works with the belief that trauma reaches out from the past to find resolution in the minds, bodies and emotions of those living in the here and now.  In so happening, the present of the trauma survivor is linked to the ‘there-and-then’ of other family members.