I did ego state therapy, which works with different parts or ego states of a person. I did this early in therapy with my T for trauma. I found it helpful. It was very creative. I liked working with the different ego states and getting to know them. My T is a family systems therapist. He said that ego state therapy is just a natural extension of what he does with a person's family of son, daughter, mother, spouse, etc. But with ego state therapy, you work with a person's internal family. It's really similar. For example, my T did couples type therapy between me and an ego state when we were at odds. Same skills, similar words and approaches. My T sometimes combined ego state therapy with EMDR. I found the EMDR helpful too, but in some ways, the ego state therapy was more powerful.

Recently I've realized I still have some trauma left to work on, and I'm going to raise this with my T next session. I don't think I would do ego state therapy on this thing, though, as that approach can get quite involved and I'd like to do things a little differently with this.

Wikidpissah, has your T invited you to do parts therapy?