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She tries to connect with and nurture my "vulnerable child" mode, and other "modes" of myself as well as supporting and strengthening my "healthy adult" mode as well as fighting my punitive parent mode (inner critic in other modalities etc).
(I'm not DID but it can be like an ego state, or how some therapy modality like Internal Family System use "parts". Some people like the word "parts", some people who dissociate more severely might use "alters"... It's like a continumn from mood shifts all the way to alters.)
Some other posters here and in blogs I read have transitional objects, phone calls, recordings etc to help with the connection too.
I honestly believe that eventually I will "grow up" into increasing autonomy etc in therapy.
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There were no therapists in my area from that link. I looked on Psychology Today too, but schema therapy isn't even listed as a modality. I found a few in Christian organizations-is that usually typical of the schema community? I'm not sure if I want to see someone from a religious organization, but I do like the idea of that modality.
What you wrote in bold is exactly what I think I need thank you.
Its' so incredibly say that my T can't be more flexible, and incorporate a little bit of these methods. It really hurts.