I can't be sure because what you've said is pretty vague, but that doesn't sound like the "clinical research" side of the field, that sounds like public policy. Perhaps that's a direction that would be better suited to your passions and interests; how do we identify people who need mental health services and provide them appropriate treatment? Because in general, we have a lot of very good treatments out there for a number of mental health conditions, including trauma. The problem is that a lot of clinicians, for whatever reason, aren't using those treatments, or aren't using them appropriately. On top of that, a lot of people who need treatment don't get it, either because of lack of resources, social stigma against using mental health services, lack of desire to change, or any host of other reasons. I think these are great things to be looking into, and in many cases, would probably be more productive (in terms of actual change to the world) than clinical research. So I'd consider talking to advocacy groups and seeing what sorts of career paths would be helpful towards working in that direction.