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 including postage & packaging (UK Only)
Free UK P&P offer ends 25/09/2026
Pre-order now at the special introductory price of £18.99 + P&P
Following the official book launch on 30 October 2026, the retail price will increase to £24.99 excluding postage & packaging.
Pre-Order Shipping
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+ UK: £5.95
+ USA: £6.95
+ Canada: £6.50
+ Australia: £12.95
Where possible, international orders will be printed and dispatched through Bookvault's local print partners to help keep delivery costs reasonable.
Pre-ordered copies are expected to begin dispatching around the official launch date of Friday 30 October 2026.
Those who secured the earlier free UK postage offer before 25th September 2026 will still receive that offer as agreed.
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.
Pre-Order Book Launch Invitation – RSVP
Those who pre-order a copy will also be invited to attend our small, RSVP-only book launch in the Scottish Borders on Friday evening, 30 October 2026.
The launch will be a relaxed gathering for family, friends and supporters, and pre-order customers will be welcome to collect their copy in person on the day if they wish. Copies not collected at the launch will be carefully packaged and posted out as normal.
We’ll share full venue and RSVP details with pre-order customers closer to the date.
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 / £24.99 +P&P 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 inc. P&P (UK ONLY) Free P7P offer ends at midnight on 25/09/2026)
P&P cost applies to pre-orders from 26/09 and on all orders outside the UK.
Official Launch Date: 30 October 2026
Expected delivery: late October–November 2026
Price after launch: £24.99 Exc. P&P
Thank you for supporting an independently written and published book.