Dissociative Disorders therapists in Alabaster, Alabama AL
Dissociative Disorders
Dr. Alan Ickowitz
Psychologist, Psy.D.
I have helped clients cope with and heal from trauma resulting in dissociative disorders for more than 15 years.
33 Years Experience
Dissociative Disorders
Dr. Amanda Roberts
Psychologist, PhD Clinical Psychology, Masters in Marriage Family Therapy
There are few clinicians skilled in the treatment of these complex disorders. Dr Roberts has many years of experience working with the traumatic fallout of complex trauma. He has specialist training in dissociative identity disorder and structural dissociation.
39 Years Experience
Dissociative Disorders
Gregory Smith
Counselor/Therapist, ALC (Associate Licensed Counselor), BCPC
Dissociative Disorders, including DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder - formerly Multiple Personality Disorder), requires a very special set of skills and experience to help those suffering. I have spent most of my counseling career working with those that used dissociation to survive extremely difficult abuses with embedded intolerable conflicts. I have worked with all levels of PTSD and dissociation, including the worst where ritual abuse was used to create programmed alters. Deprogramming the human mind is not an easy task, but using the right approached, it can be achieved so that even the most traumatized individuals can go on to live their lives as it was originally intended. This type of therapy requires lots of patience and time on behalf of the therapist and client in order to be healed and restored from all the brokenness. Therefore, because of the nature and complication of resolving DID, longer sessions are required in order to make definitive progress.
19 Years Experience
Dissociative Disorders
Collins Counseling Associates
Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, LMFT
Hazel Woodward, LPC has advanced training an experience in treating trauma-related disorders, such as PTSD, and rare dissociative disorders such as dissociative identity disorder.
19 Years Experience
Dissociative Disorders
Nancy Hayes-Gary, Psy.D.
Psychologist, Licensed Psychologist, MD , Psy.D.
Grounding, soothing, and leaning to separate out past trauma from present reality helps decrease dissociation. I also approach this with some of the approaches I’ve already mentioned. People who dissociate are often plagued with past thoughts or memories of a very difficult time. Exploring childhood patterns of family interactions gives one a key to understanding their dissociation as a trauma response. Also essential is the learning of other trauma responses that don’t come with the down sides of dissociating, like memory problems or depersonalization/derealization anxiety.
31 Years Experience