Let's say you were to go to a new psychologist for psychotherapy. You've been to countless Ts with no direction or success in helping you even with day to day stuff. This new T you learn though has had many many years of success working with trauma. Their specialty lies in working with people who dissociate - whether it be DID, DDNOS, any of the DD's under those, or borderline personality disorder who also may dissociate. They have had many success cases and after seeing you for two months have decided you have a ton of potential and are confident that if you stick with their program, you WILL no longer dissociate ever again (minus normal spacing out of course that everyone does) when you are through. They believe that you one day will no longer meet criteria for any disabling mental illnesses.

What would be your thoughts?

Personally:

I've been seeing such a T and I have great hope in her abilities to guide me to a point where I will have very good coping skills so that I won't have a need to go away somewhere else in my mind every time I'm even remotely uncomfortable. At the same time, I'm afraid. I don't know what it means to actually face issues or deal with triggering events. I know though she will teach me and guide me to that point. She is extremely strict. She acknowledges that I dissociate and have alters. But she doesn't focus on that at all. She is focused on me as a whole person and uses the guidelines in DBT to teach her clients. She is really good at what she does and I have the utmost confidence in her. Never before have I ever felt this way towards any T. It's always been me teaching them and they doing things as inexperienced clinicians would that only encourage further separation. I finally found someone that knows what they're doing and I trust her.