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Kathy, Where Have You Been These Past 5 Years?

By Kathy Broady MSW 32 Comments

  Five years! Those of you who have been reading here for awhile will know what I'm talking about, and some of you are going to learn a whole lot about me today.  :) FIRST -- I want to say... this [post was written on] the 15-year anniversary for the beginning of my very first online therapeutic site for dissociative trauma survivors -- AbuseConsultants -- a website offering online counseling, email … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, mental health, Online Therapy, therapy, Therapy and Counseling, trauma therapist Tagged With: AbuseConsultants, Australia, Back to work, DID / MPD, DID Phone Therapy, DID Therapist, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Kathy Broady, Online Therapy, Phone sessions, Phone Sessions with Kathy Broady MSW, SurvivorForum

When You Suddenly Lose Your Therapist

By Kathy Broady MSW 262 Comments

Several people that have been reading Discussing Dissociation have made posts and comments about how enormously painful and difficult it is to lose a therapist. There are several different ways to “lose a therapist” but for the purposes of this particular blog entry, I’d like to focus on situations where there was sudden loss. In my years of experience, I have seen a variety of circumstances that have led to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Child Alters, Depression, DID Education, Dissociative Identity Disorder, emotional pain, Internal Communication, Self Injury, therapy, Therapy and Counseling, Trauma, trauma therapist Tagged With: AbuseConsultants, AbuseConsultants.com, Anger, Depression, DID / MPD, DID Survivors, dissociative disorders, Dissociative Identity Disorder, emotional pain, Ending Therapy, Grief, heartbreak, Internal Chaos, Internal Fighting, Kathy Broady, Lashing out, Losing a therapist, Loss, Loss of a therapist, Love-hate relationships, pain, Quitting therapy, Saying goodbye, Self Harm, Self Injury, SI, Termination, Termination of therapy, therapy, Therapy Process, Trauma Survivors, trauma therapist, Trauma Therapy

First Discussing Dissociation Group Chat

By Kathy Broady MSW 8 Comments

  ~ ~ ~  This is an old post, and is here for informational purposes.  ~ ~ ~ Please note:  there is no group chat currently scheduled.     Hello hello ! I am happy to announce that the first group chat for readers of the Discussing Dissociation blog will be held on ...... at 7 PM Central Standard Time. To participate in this group chat, you will need to sign up through www.AbuseConsultants.com … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Child Alters, DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Online Therapy, therapy, Therapy and Counseling, trauma therapist Tagged With: AbuseConsultants, AbuseConsultants.com, Adult Parts, Child Parts, DID Therapy, DID Treatment, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Group chats, Kathy Broady, Online Safety, Online Support, Online Support Group, Online Therapist, Online Therapy, Q & A with Kathy Broady, Safety, SurvivorForum, Trauma Survivors, treatment for DID, Treatment for DID / MPD

Article Links Made – Finally!

By Kathy Broady MSW 4 Comments

Hello Everyone, I have a page on this blog that lists all the articles I’ve written in chronological order since the beginning of the Discussing Dissociation blog. Several people have asked me over the past few months to make links for each of the articles in order to make it easier to navigate around and to find the various topics. And, while BTC tried to assist me with that long ago (thanks, BTC!), I just … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, mental health, therapy, trauma therapist Tagged With: Abuse, AbuseConsultants, Childhood Sexual Abuse, Childhood Trauma, DID Therapy, DID Treatment Goals, DID/MPD, Dissociation, dissociative disorders, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Healing Process, Kathy Broady, Links for Dissociative Information, Resources for DID, sexual abuse, therapy, Trauma, Trauma Survivors, Trauma Therapy, Treatment Goal, Treatment Goals for DID

HBO’s “In Treatment” – Is That What Therapy is Like?

By Kathy Broady MSW 17 Comments

How many of you have been watching the award-winning HBO Series, "In Treatment" with Gabriel Byrne, Dianne Wiest, and John Mahoney?  This HBO series is currently near the beginning of its second season, centered around how Dr. Paul Weston (Byrne) conducts therapy sessions with four different clients, and then his own individual therapy process with his own therapist, Dr. Gina Toll (Wiest). In my opinion, the "In … [Read more...]

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