What if the central question in therapy is not "What is wrong with this person?" but "How does this person make sense?" The Constitution of the Restorative Integration Framework presents a coherent clinical and ethical framework for seeing and attending to the whole person. Brad R. Smedley, LMFT, brings together attachment, human development, nervous-system formation, trauma, protective adaptation, identity, relational healing, and Christian anthropology without reducing the person to any single theory, diagnosis, symptom, or behavior. At the center of the framework is a governing conviction: the person always exceeds the formulation. Symptoms and protective patterns must be taken seriously, but they can also be understood as meaningful responses shaped within a person's developmental, relational, biological, and spiritual story. Clinical formulations remain necessary, yet provisional. Understanding precedes intervention; compassion remains joined to truth and responsibility; and restoration seeks more than symptom reduction. Structured as a professional constitution, the book establishes foundational principles, essential definitions, eight governing articles, ethical commitments, and practical appendices for case conceptualization, therapeutic posture, clinical discernment, integration of treatment modalities, and evaluation of progress. The Restorative Integration Framework does not replace established or evidence-based therapies. Instead, it offers clinicians a lens through which those therapies may be practiced with greater humility, coherence, and attention to the enduring person beneath suffering and adaptation. Written for therapists, counselors, supervisors, graduate students, ministry leaders, and others engaged in restorative care, this volume invites practitioners to move beyond technique-driven treatment toward a disciplined way of seeing: understand the person before attempting to change the person.