I believe that the vast majority of people are suffering from traumatic wounds, even if their symptoms align with “depression, anxiety,” etc. (though there are biochemical and neurological origins for some of these as well). 

I also believe, as Internal Family Systems does, that every human being has a Core Self which can never be killed, never be damaged, and contains all of the qualities necessary to heal from any trauma, however extreme—we need only look widely at the world to witness people who ratify this.      

I believe that the majority of people, therapy-seekers or otherwise, often insist they have no suffered no trauma at all.  Or they are participating in what some I call the “trauma Olympics,” insisting they deserve no medal or special care.  Let’s redefine trauma here, and if you don’t want to read the link, then, in my words, here:

Trauma is an event or period of time that produces an experience of powerlessness and fear; it is so diverse an experience as to include the following events: a mother shutting the door on a wailing infant, a betrayal by a close friend, a humiliation in front of a crowd, being a highly sensitive child in a family of hard-knockers, religious shame, and chronic childhood sexual abuse or “merely” emotional neglect.