i really don't know what "improvements" I can expect from therapy, my understanding so far is that my brain developed differently to people who didn't have early childhood trauma so the physical structure of my brain is just different. Which means different responses and a different "normal"?? I don't have a pre-trauma self to "get back to". I am this bundle of trauma responses and the way I relate to people is different because of the different experiences I had. That's my understanding of what my T has explained to me.
The goals we set in therapy are about learning to regulate emotions, developing communication between the alters and later working with the traumas. So maybe my expectations are that I will be better off than I am now but not that I will be "normal".