yes my therapist talked with my alters...

some information that you may not know about...getting the diagnosis doesnt change anything, it just puts a name on what has already been happening since very early childhood...

let me give you an example....

here in my location DID is a mental disorder that happens when a child under the age of 5 undergoes extreme trauma that the child at that young age is unable to handle.

it is a dissociative disorder where when ever a person encounters something that triggers them they dissociate (feel numb spaced out disconnected) and then the alters take control to handle\take care of that which caused the person to dissociate.

DID affects every aspect of a persons life, not just one area of their life, it affects their home life, their social life, their academic life, their work\occupational life... everything thing.

Each alter has their own job, purpose, reason for being, how function, how interact with their self, and everyone and every thing (in other words they have their own sense of agency you can read about this in one of the links at the bottom of my post)

what that means in my location is that from very early childhood on up into adulthood and until the alters integrate back into being one whole person again the alters take control based on their sense of agency and take care of what could not be handled with out dissociating\switching into being the alters.

Human beings are a social species. that means human beings learn how to talk as babies and continue talking to those around them...(family, friends, teachers, doctors, therapists, even strangers sometimes) all their lives.

how does all this translate into therapy...

as human beings its natural and part of life to talk with my therapist. if I became triggered during therapy an alter would take control and talk with my therapist about that triggering topic that I dissociated away from. why because thats what the alters sense of agency was.... to handle anything that caused me upset\triggering.

on the issue of your therapist stating if you trust your therapist then you would not dissociate just from having to see your therapist. (because you would not be triggered by seeing your therapist) thats not saying things you .....discuss.... wont trigger you, just that ........being near, with and around your therapist.... will not cause you to dissociate if you trust and are comfortable with your therapist. dissociation is a trigger response and if not triggered no dissociation. Im guessing thats what your therapist meant. my suggestion would be to ask her what she meant so that she can tell you what she meant by that statement.