You are Not just a Diagnosis: Using Trauma-Informed Techniques to Create Your Best Life

Historically, therapy was something an expert did to a client. The methods were kept hidden and a jargon developed in the field, partly to maintain that process. The result has been that people going through treatment felt less like people and more like a walking version of their disorder. For anyone suffering from trauma, that's a particularly disempowering experience. A key component of modern, client-centered therapy is the shared experience of working toward recovery. In spite of that, treatment often still feels one-way. This book is intended to help people suffering from trauma use the insights and techniques professional use to take control of their recovery. It describes how trauma relates to behavioral symptoms, distorted thinking, physical problems, and even a little of the history of psychology as a field. Topics include: "What is Trauma-Informed Care? What are symptoms? Common Diagnoses and what they mean, Sleep, Making a Plan, Keeping it together, and Using the Miracle Question.This book pulls back the veil of jargon by explaining words and concepts in regular terms, using examples, stories and a few diagrams. You are NOT just a Diagnosis combines the most effective therapeutic techniques, each fully supported by research, into a single comprehensible process anyone can use alone or while working with a therapist to create their best life.