The Lived Experience of Complex Trauma
Understanding trauma is an important step towards creating safer, more compassionate and more effective support.
In The Lived Experience of Complex Trauma, Deborah J Crozier draws on lived experience, professional practice, therapeutic understanding and research to explore how trauma and complex post-traumatic stress can affect emotional wellbeing, relationships, behaviour, communication and our sense of safety.
This accessible and thought provoking book looks beyond visible behaviour to consider the experiences, adaptations and unmet needs that may sit beneath it. It offers readers an opportunity to develop a deeper understanding of how trauma can shape the way people think, feel, respond and relate to others.
Written for practitioners, professionals, students, individuals with lived experience, families and anyone seeking to understand trauma more fully, the book encourages a person-centred and trauma-informed approach. It supports readers to move away from judgement and towards curiosity, compassion and meaningful understanding.
Drawing on Deborah’s wider trauma-informed work and the principles that underpin The Crozier Method™, this book explores practical ways of thinking about safety, regulation, recovery and supportive relationships.
Whether you are working with people affected by trauma, seeking to understand your own experiences, or developing trauma informed practice within an organisation, The Lived Experience of Complex Trauma offers valuable insight and guidance.
Pre-Order Details
The Lived Experience of Complex Trauma
By Deborah J Crozier
Published by Lived Learning Press
Pre-Order Price
£18.99 + postage & packaging
Pre-order now at the special introductory price of £18.99.
Following the official book launch on 30 October 2026, the retail price will increase to £22.99 + postage & packaging.
Publication & Delivery
Official launch date: 30 October 2026
Pre-ordered copies are expected to begin dispatching around the launch date, with deliveries anticipated from late October into November 2026.
As this is an independently published first edition, delivery dates are estimates. We will do everything possible to get pre-ordered copies to readers as quickly as possible.
UK orders will be carefully packaged and sent by Royal Mail.
Please allow additional time for Royal Mail delivery once your order has been dispatched.
Book Details
Title: The Lived Experience of Complex Trauma
Author: Deborah J Crozier
Publisher: Lived Learning Press
Publication: October 2026
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Price: £18.99 pre-order / £22.99 after launch
Postage: Royal Mail – postage & packaging calculated separately
UK publication: Independently published by Lived Learning Press
About the Book
The Lived Experience of Complex Trauma explores trauma and complex post-traumatic stress from the inside — bringing together lived experience, therapeutic practice, professional learning and research.
Rather than asking simply, “What is wrong with this person?”, the book invites us to become curious about what has happened, how people have adapted to survive, and why responses that may seem difficult or confusing from the outside can make complete sense when understood in context.
Written for people with lived experience, families, counsellors, students, practitioners and professionals, it explores safety, survival responses, relationships, attachment, triggers, hypervigilance, coping, boundaries, regulation and recovery.
The book also introduces The Crozier Method™, developed by Deborah through her trauma-informed therapeutic and educational work.
Your Pre-Order
By placing a pre-order, you are reserving a copy from the first publication run.
Pre-order: £18.99 + P&P
Launch: 30 October 2026
Expected delivery: late October–November 2026
Price after launch: £22.99 + P&P
Thank you for supporting an independently written and published book.