The article discusses the shortcomings of traditional DID training for therapists from the unique perspectives of a licensed psychologist living with the disorder. It emphasizes that the current educational approach fosters fear and avoidance rather than compassion and connection, which is essential in treating individuals with DID. Therapists often emerge from training with fears that inhibit their ability to engage fully with clients, resulting in linear treatment approaches that do not accommodate the complex realities of DID systems. True healing requires clinicians to prioritize relationship and attunement over strict treatment structures.
What’s being passed off as education is, too often, training therapists to fear, misinterpret, or suppress the very parts of us that need connection and compassion.
Fear-based training leads to fear-based therapy. Systems like mine can feel that in our bones. It communicates that we are dangerous, unstable, or untrustworthy.
When therapists cling to structure over relationship, we lose the opportunity for real healing. The biggest breakthroughs... didn’t come from following a phase.
Many clinicians leave DID trainings afraid: afraid of 'doing harm,' afraid of dysregulation, afraid of getting it wrong. That fear gets passed on to the DID system.
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