You're on the right track! I think it's essential to work with someone who specializes in trauma-related disorders; it's been my sad experience that those who don't (and there are many) are viewing our situations through a lens that just doesn't lend itself to being able to help or even understand really.
No need to worry much about diagnoses, since there's no medical cures for trauma-related disorders anyway! Not PTSDs and not dissociative.  Just focus on finding someone who has an ability and interest in being understanding and empathetic to what you're going through, who might be able to help you work through the effects you're experiencing. 
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“We use our minds not to discover facts but to hide them. One of things the screen hides most effectively is the body, our own body, by which I mean, the ins and outs of it, its interiors. Like a veil thrown over the skin to secure its modesty, the screen partially removes from the mind the inner states of the body, those that constitute the flow of life as it wanders in the journey of each day.”
— Antonio R. Damasio, “The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness” (p.28)
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