My youngest daughter is 8 years old and the main reason I joined this forum. She is having several issues and my husband and I are struggling to find ways to help her.

She started therapy last November for anxiety (and other troubling behaviors) and we suspect that someone has harmed her in some way (although we desperately hope we are wrong).

Her therapist (a licensed clinical social worker) commented that our daughter dissociates at times. An example would be - this past summer my FIL and husband were engaged in an argument. They rarely argue and we wonder if FIL had been drinking as it was extreme. FIL started yelling and cursing at my husband and the children were right there. A few hours later, I wanted to talk to the girls and make sure they were okay. One daughter spoke about it and had questions, but our youngest said she didn't remember the incident at all. We were stunned and told her she had to remember it, it just happened and she was right there. She kept insisting that she wasn't there when it happened, but had nightmares for a week that my FIL was coming to kill us all.

Also, during therapy, she can't remember much of what they talk about. She says that after they say hello to each other, everything becomes a big blur until the end.

During therapy, she told her therapist that she hears voices. She couldn't really determine if they were in her head or outside of her head. She drew a picture of what appears to be an 8 year old boy with orange hair, a red shirt and yellow pants. She drew him as a very big person and herself as a tiny person standing in front of him. She told me that the boy's name was God and he shows up in her head when she's scared. God comforts her and takes the bad dreams and memories away so she doesn't have to remember them.

I wasn't sure what to say, but I told her that I was glad God was there to help her by doing that for her. She was worried (and a bit scared) of why he shows up - she feels something is wrong with her. She said she doesn't call him to show up, he just appears on his own. I told her that it was okay for him to show up and help her and for her to talk to him. I also told her that I was grateful to God for helping her during difficult times.

Our therapist doesn't think there's anything significant about God being in her head at times. I plan to ask our psychiatrist but we won't have an appointment with him (our first for this daughter) for another two weeks.

I realize that nobody here can diagnose on the internet, but does this sound like something I should mention to our psychiatrist or am I way off base in my concern? He's $200 an hour and I want to choose topics carefully and already have a lot to discuss.