Solnutty... I could have written your post word for word. That is exactly how I learned I had parts. I always knew I had internal voices but didn't know that everyone didn't have the same thing until one threatened to come out and kept telling me to say mean things to T.

Writingwithink....I agree with the others. I would be honest. The more they know the less time they will have to spend figuring things out on their own. Just because you have parts, does not mean you cannot work on trauma. My T is a trauma and EMDR specialist. I didn't know I had parts until we started doing EMDR. Once the parts were discovered T helped me learn to communicate better with them. They are the ones that hold the worst memories and they have to be part of the trauma T. My T works them in. If they come out he will deal directly with them. If they don't, he will always ask me if certain ones are ready to work on their memories. As I get better, they share more and more of their memories with me and slowly the puzzle is being built. Whenever we start and EMDR session T will always ask which parts are coming along for the ride that day. They are participating as well because it involves their memories also. Some days though it is only me. We deal with whatever happens on that day but T never forces me to only work on parts. If they do, I would say something or find another T if that is all they want to work on.

I totally understand the want to not deal with them. I have considered the same thing as you; switching to a new T and not mentioning parts but when it come down to it, the parts are all part of you. So fixing you also means fixing your parts. My T caught me on my BS a couple sessions ago and told me that saying lalalala I don't have parts, I don't have problems, I can deal with it on my own....is not my usually honest straightforward approach and that he sees me trying to pile up the BS so high that is buries all of my issues which is not going to work. I was mad at him for that comment but when I am honest with myself, he is right. So even though I do go in stages and try to ignore my parts for periods of time, I still know they are there and I am going to have to deal with them if I want to get better. Good luck to you. None of us asked for them, but we are stuck with them none the less. Built in family that never goes home, but family none the less that actually didn't let us down; family that took the worst of things so we could survive. I have always found that being loving and accepting of even the worst of them is much more helpful than trying to fight them. Some of my parts with the most destructive personalities have made great strides just by receiving my love and understanding.