When we appreciate the neural mechanisms beneath our conscious control that govern our bodily reactions to features of safety, danger, and life threat, we have an opportunity to step out of our stories of shame, blame, guilt, and criticism, for ourselves and for others.

Instead, we focus on relational attunement and ease for the client and their biology, both inside and outside therapy sessions.

This scaffolding of states that naturally connect and sequence from one to the other rebuilds continuity of states. This defines integration: the return to continuity of states.

Treatment must feel respectful and meaningful, and be nondirective: it must be improvised, by both client and practitioner.

Clinicians who are trained in intersubjective, interactionist, systems, and interpersonal approaches recognize intrapsychic, relational, and other unconscious materials that emerge in FACs (cf. Bateson, 1972; Sullivan, 1970; Watzlawick et al., 1968).

Thus, auto-organization clarifies that the agent of organization is the physiology,

This recall is more positively valenced and arises organically when clients are sufficiently grounded in orientation and, consequently, not under the sway of negativity bias.

PTG is the documented growth that some experience after trauma. People may not only recover from trauma but emerge more resilient after it than before: more resilient and with purpose (Hill et al., 2023).

People who are seeking help face a bewildering array of advertisements from nonlicensed professionals without adequate background, while licensed professionals have been shown to lack the awareness that their treatments are not having the effect they think they are (Lambert & Harmon, 2018).