Your clients understand their trauma. Most of them do not have a plan.

They arrive after reading the books. They can identify their attachment patterns, describe their nervous system responses, and articulate the childhood experiences that shaped them. In many cases, they cannot translate that understanding into a coherent approach to their own healing.Sessions become reactive. The client reports what has come up since the last appointment, but without a structure for collecting and organizing that experience, the material is scattered. If they are working with multiple practitioners simultaneously, the picture fragments further. Each modality produces its own insights. Nothing connects them.

This is the gap the Field Manual and its companion app are designed to address. Not as a replacement for the therapeutic relationship, but as the between-session infrastructure that gives that relationship more to work with.The frameworks the book draws on will be familiar: cognitive behavioral therapy, Internal Family Systems, attachment theory, schema therapy, and self-determination theory. The contribution of this book is not a new theory. It is a practical system for applying what is already known in a sequenced and coordinated way.