Breaking the Diagnostic Box: When It’s Trauma, Not Mental Illness
A free webinar for clinicians, coaches, and helpers who are ready to see beyond labels and practise trauma-informed care with confidence.
If you’ve ever sat across from a client and thought,
“This diagnosis doesn’t feel right”,
you’re already sensing what the diagnostic system keeps missing.
Trauma can look like personality disorder, mood disorder, ADHD, OCD, depression or “treatment resistance”.
But in many cases, it isn’t illness at all.
It’s adaptation. It’s survival. It’s the nervous system speaking.
This webinar shows you exactly how to see the difference, fast, clearly and safely.
We’re not in a resilience crisis, we’re in a collective dysregulation crisis.
Join award-winning trauma therapist and speaker Lou Lebentz for a free webinar that unpacks why most “resilience training” doesn’t work, and what we can do instead.
Save Your SpotWebinar Details:
Date:
Dec 3rd 2025
Time
5-6pm UK time / 12 - 1pm EST / 11am-12pm CST
Where:
Live on Zoomng
Replay
Available for 7 days after
The Problem Nobody Wants To Admit
The modern diagnostic model boxes people in.
Fast.
Hard.
Mechanically.
But trauma does not fit neatly inside a DSM page.
It leaks.
It distorts symptoms.
It changes the body.
It drives behaviours that look like “disorder” but are actually adaptations.
When you treat trauma as illness, you treat survival as pathology.
That’s where harm happens.
This webinar is built to stop that harm.
What We’ll Cover
- Why “grit,” “mental toughness,” and “bounce back” culture are quietly harming people
- How stress, shutdown, and survival responses show up in kids, staff, and teams
- Why regulation must come before resilience — always
- The nervous system lens (in simple, non-medical language)
- What real, sustainable, soul-rooted resilience actually looks like
- How to begin shifting your school, family, or team culture — with gentleness, not pressure
This Is For You If…
- You work in education, leadership, wellbeing, HR, youth work, or mental health
- You’re tired of being told to “push through” when what you actually need is support
- You’ve watched children, staff or colleagues break down while being praised for “coping well”
- You want to understand how resilience is built from the inside out, not the top down
Hi, I'm Lou Lebentz!
I'm an award-winning trauma-informed psychotherapist, clinical supervisor, international speaker and educator with over 25 years experience and I now help other clinicians to deepen and expand their practice without overwhelm.
I understand what it's like to feel called to deeper work but overwhelmed by complex training requirements. Whether you're a seasoned professional wanting to integrate parts work, or a newer practitioner seeking accessible tools, I believe everyone deserves practical, heart-centered methods that actually work.
Through decades of practice, I developed The Voyage® - a globally recognised framework that makes parts work accessible to any helping professional, regardless of their background or training level. I've now helped thousands of professionals worldwide, from experienced therapists to newly qualified coaches - move beyond surface-level approaches and confidently navigate even complex client presentations..
This is not another surface-level “trauma-informed” session.
This is a deeper conversation where body, brain, parts, and lived experience are all included.
If you are ready to break the diagnostic box,
If you want to practice with more precision, safety and integrity,
If you want your clients to finally feel understood…
Then join us.
Your next level of clarity starts here.
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Show Up Live, Get Everything Free
Attend live and you receive:
Full presentation PDFs
Rethinking Resilience, Mini Booklet
The Real Resilience Toolkit, Practical tools for yourself, kids, and your team
Free. Yours to keep.
If you don’t attend live, these materials will be available later only as a paid bundle.
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