It sounds like you had a productive session and feel more confident about working through the feelings about your memories. I like that you're discussing how to trust your memories and feelings instead of dismissing them as being imagined. I can understand how difficult it is to let your T see some of the hurt, child parts. I have trouble with that too. Our protectors are protecting us, but I wish they'd go away sometimes.

When you said you were working with ego states, is that the same as IFS? Does your T call it that now? Just curious as to why you used that terminology in your post instead of IFS. I know it's what sunrise's T does, and it's a little different from IFS.