I mentioned the words ‘trauma dump’ during a session once and my therapist interrupted me (never happens) to stress that “we don’t use words like that here” lmao. ~80% of therapy speak was made up by 24 year olds on twitter/tumblr in 2013 before blowing up everywhere else.
i don't think "therapy speak" actually comes from therapy tho. it comes from online. i've literally never had a therapist use words like "toxic" and "trauma dumping" in a session lol