Perhaps this will help: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/t...south-carolina

I can understand your trepidation. To make matters worse, many faith based counselors (particularly in the Bible belt) would sooner chalk it up to possession than dissociation.

We have something similar here. Recently I took a very informal poll/structured interview lol, asking twelve men and twelve women who go there for counseling, what they get out of their therapy. Every single person, all twenty-four, said a free bus pass. At $60/month for a pass and all I spoke to receiving state general assistance ($197/m) or social security (@$700/m) and live on the streets, $60 is a big deal to commit to four hours a week - and they usually cancel one of them so it's only three hours a week.

I sit in the lobby sometimes and watch the entry level counselors come out and literally cower sometimes because they are afraid of their clients. Some twenty-two year old fresh out of college is going in a closed room alone with some alcoholic paranoid schizophrenic who has been living on the streets since he got back from the Vietnam War...it's sad to watch. Like we aren't hyper-sesitive to people putting up walls between us living on the streets - and you think this person is going to open up to you?!

Anyway, you could get lucky but I'm with you on this one.

Good luck with that. I'm not being negative here, I do mean good luck, but yeah, there is also that element of getting lucky. Most therapists are drawn to the field because of their own issues. Some work their own issues out and become invaluable and life-saving members of the psychiatric community, and the others inadvertently hurt people. Finding someone that can really listen, that can be challenging - but it can be done.

I would recommend this though: if your first impression is that this person won't be able to help you whether it's because you're simply a bad fit or because they refuse to listen, don't waste time. You may be reluctant to fire them because there are so few options in your area that take your insurance, but it's sort of like a relationship for me, I'd rather be alone than be with the wrong person. If it's a bad fit, you'll leave eventually and you'll wish you hadn't wasted so much time when you do.

That was a good idea. Look, you're unlikely to get specialized listings for dissociative disorders - what you'll find instead is trauma counselors or PTSD, particularly complex PTSD counselors. If they're dealing with trauma and PTSD, they experience in dissociative disorders, though perhaps not all of them with DID.