I have not met a competent male or female mental health professional. I know the managers of this board do not like me to post things like this, but that is my opinion. I had a therapist in Orlando who had one of those light things where the red lights move back and fourth across a bar. I believe he wanted to use that on me. Try to put me under hypnosis. Because of my situation we never got around to it. But if he ever brought it up I was going to tell him that I would only allow a mental health professional to try and hypnotize me if I was under someone like Dr. Colin Ross and inpatient in a hospital. When Dr. Ross uses hypnosis to try to help his patients integrate he has another mental health professional in the room and he video or audio tapes the session. The patient gets to know everything that was discussed while under hypnosis. That is the "professional" way to treat a DID patient. I would not trust any individual mental health professional to put me under deep hypnosis in any other setting.