The second stage of phased therapy for complex trauma – for which the client has a foundation via the resourcing of Phase 1 – is the processing of traumatic memory and experience. But what does `processing’ of traumatic memories mean and entail? This session addresses these questions. As traumatic memory is implicit and non-verbal, `nameless feelings…can be verbalized in words’ in Phase 2 (Chu, 2011) and it becomes possible `to bring nonverbal memory into a domain that is regulated by a different part of the brain’ (Ogden et al, 2006; re Siegel, 1999, 1995). It is crucial to understand that this is not about focusing on the content and detail of the memories per se. Rather it attunes to the impacts of traumatic memories on current functioning (`and that’s the focus of the therapy’, Danylchuk & Connors, 2017). Here the distinction between explicit and implicit memory is again underlined: `[a]t an explicit memory level, the client may have long known that the traumatic events are over. The work of phase 2 facilitates the felt experience that the danger is past’; Ogden et al, 2006).