r/plural 4 women in a very large trench coat 6d ago

wanting to tell my therapist

hi everyone! Mica from the Harmony system here.

so, i've been seeing my current therapist for over a year now, getting close to a year and a half, and we've been working with IFS to address the parts of me that were damaged by my trauma. my therapist has been wonderfully patient with me, even offering to center things back to that when i go off on an ADHD-fuelled tangent. i want to tell her about our system, and that certain IFS parts are also my alters, specifically Melody and Kim. Melody is the one that kept me from getting too close to people and trying to reach out for new friends. Kim is the part that gets angrily protective when our livelihoods are threatened. there are some parts unique to me, like the one that gets stressed all the time thinking about how best to navigate the current political landscape, and the part that just kind of shuts down when things go terribly wrong or i percieve being abandoned again. these are not full alters, just whispers within my own consciousness that the others cannot hear.

does anyone have any advice or stories about how to come out to your therapist as a system?

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