In EFit, we talk about EFit being a non pathologizing approach, a trans diagnostic approach. And what do we mean by that? We don't necessarily ignore or negate diagnosis altogether, but what we would say we look at and past diagnosis. From an eFit point of view, we're more interested in joining with clients where they are in the context in which they live and have lived including their intergenerational context. So we're interested in their emotional and relational realities.
So we tune in at that level. Sometimes we can begin to identify themes, themes of abandonment or lack of trust or betrayal. And then we look and focus our lens even more and tune into the key words, phrases, metaphors that really help us to know and understand our clients emotional and relational realities. And when we zoom back out again and view all of this through an attachment lens, the diagnosis begins to make sense. When people have a host of diagnoses, the therapist doesn't know where to start, everything feels very disorganized and chaotic for the client, but when we distill all of this through the lens of attachment and really focus on the core elements, Who our clients are, how they move in the world emotionally and relationally, that provides us with a frame, that simplifies things a lot and that as we'll talk more about is both our benchmark and our beacon.
So we sift all of these data through the lens of attachment and distill all of this in terms of affect regulation strategy and capacity and with regard to view of self and view of other on a continuum. When we're working with trauma from an e fit perspective, that's based on thousands of studies in attachment science and allows us to hold an attachment frame is that we're looking past diagnosis, we're looking past the symptom picture that people get stuck in and we're actually working, what we're really changing is the core underlying features that are sustaining those patterns and contributing to those diagnoses and that is attachment. And if we can change attachment, reshape attachment and we know we can, then we are not only shifting symptoms, but we're helping people to move into a place where they can continue to grow and evolve and be resilient in the relationships that matter most, which is basically from an attachment point of view how we're built. We're wired for connection. What we're doing in eFit is help our clients move back into a space where they can inhabit their internal worlds, embody their internal worlds, begin to share that with key others and grow in the relationships that matter most to them.