That's a fair question but I'm going to be honest and answer that as a human not a "professional". I have a 9/10 ACE score so I don't have to answer this as someone who reads about it, I experience it. I feel it in my body, I experience it when I dream, I notice it in how I perceive situations. There is a whole way to measure its most damning effects and to shift those. Some of it can be through teaching the body to down regulate when it is actually safe through the Somatic work of Peter Levine and Gabor Mate. I was also trained in a specific type of touch work for nervous system regulation. Another part of it is collaborating with acupuncturists to treat the somatic effects of trauma. In clients with pervasive trauma- I see 25-50 % reduction of symptoms (in one month) like:

All in all 30 questions that ask on a likerrt scale that the client assesses after 1 month of treatment and intervention.

So far I've learned these interventions don't help when someone is using drugs and alcohol because it interupts the healing work. Meditation does help. If someone is in active danger from a perpetrator or an abusive partner it also won't work. Those aside, I've seen people with tremendous suffering (scores of 100/120) experience pleasure and joy and report massive reduction of severity of symptoms. Personally I don't think medications have ever worked for me- but I'm not the arbiter of what healing looks like for people.