An invitation to an informal and respectful exploration between therapy professionals

If you would like to join us and you are a clinician who identifies with and practices postmodern or collaborative (non-pathologizing) therapy (solution-focused, narrative, collaborative language systems), contact me.

Hi All,

I’m needing a conversation with postmodern therapy colleagues about your experiences and ideas about working with transgender youth who have “headmates” or identify with DID. I’m particularly interested in a non-pathologizing exploratory conversation about ways we might relate to clients identifying in this way.

I have an increasing number of trans youth clients whose experiences resonate with YouTubers such as DissociaDID (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6kFD5xIFvWyLlytv5pTR1w), Multiplicity & Me (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8JDIEFbQejP-meo1OwI0DA), The Entropy System (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCkrAkJop-j4oAQb0sHBYrw), and others.

Among some ideas I’m interested in exploring:

• How clinical DID is understood today,

• Similarities/Differences between how DID is understood clinically and seen on YouTube

• How adult trans folx experience DID differently than trans youth (under the influence of different generations of professional discourses?)

• How clinicians might relate to and work with trans youth identifying with DID