Dissociative Disorders Therapists in New Bedford, MA

Living with dissociation can feel like watching your own life from a distance, experiencing unsettling gaps in time, or feeling deeply disconnected from your body and emotions. I provide a safe, highly stabilized space for individuals navigating dissociative disorders, helping them move from a state of fragmentation toward safety and internal cohesion. Because dissociation is the brain's brilliant way of surviving overwhelming trauma, my approach honors your coping mechanisms while gently helping you heal. We utilize Internal Family Systems (IFS) to compassionately meet and communicate with the different "parts" of your system, alongside advanced brain-body therapies like EMDR and Brainspotting to process the underlying trauma at a pace that keeps you safely grounded. Together, we will work to reduce the distress of disconnection, strengthen your window of tolerance, and help you feel safely anchored in the present moment.

Multiple-personality disorder also known as Dissociative Identity Disorder is a complicated disorder but I have been helping my patients with this disorder and they are getting resilient in no time due to my Dicit hypnotherapy and general clinical hypnotherapy.

I have been working in the trauma field for many years and am certified in EMDR, IFS, and NARM - three modalities that many people have found helpful in improving the trauma-related symptoms such as dissociation.

I specialize in working with dissociation, including with patients living with dissociative identity disorder (DID). Dissociation is our mind’s way of keeping us safe when life becomes overwhelming, a creative act of survival rather than a defect. Our work together is slow and collaborative, creating space for different parts of you to come into relationship, build trust, and feel more connected within yourself, always honoring your timing and readiness. I am not an advocate of integration of alters/parts, but rather an advocate of inter-part communication; much like a board meeting, parts should be able to communicate with one another and support one another, rather than work divisively.

Dissociative disorders, characterized by disruptions in memory, identity, consciousness, and perception, can be profoundly challenging for those affected. These disruptions often stem from severe trauma or stress, leading individuals to disconnect from their thoughts, feelings, or sense of self as a coping mechanism. Hypnotherapy, with its ability to access the subconscious mind, offers a compassionate and insightful approach to addressing dissociative disorders.

New Bedford is a southeastern Massachusetts city with one of the most distinctive identities of any American city of its size—Herman Melville's Moby-Dick opens here, and the city was once the richest per capita in America thanks to its whaling industry—now home to the highest-volume commercial fishing port in the United States by dollar value, with an economy still anchored by fishing, manufacturing, and logistics. The city has a large Cape Verdean-American community (one of the largest in the world outside Cape Verde), as well as significant Portuguese and Brazilian populations, and the intersection of these communities' mental health needs—including the specific experiences of Cape Verdean identity, immigration, and intergenerational stress—creates important considerations for culturally competent care. Southcoast Health provides behavioral health services, and community health organizations serve the diverse population. Common therapy concerns include fishing industry occupational trauma and risk, Cape Verdean and Portuguese-American identity and immigration stress, economic anxiety, substance use (New Bedford has been significantly affected by opioids), and the mental health challenges of a proud working-class city navigating industrial and demographic change.

Gender ID

	50%	Female
	50%	Male

Session Type

	62%	In Person and Online
	38%	Online Only

Top Treatment Approaches

50%	Internal Family Systems (IFS)
38%	Behavioral Therapy
38%	Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
38%	Hypnotherapy
38%	Person-Centered Therapy (Rogerian)
38%	Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT)
38%	Somatic Therapy

Ages Served

100%	Adult
63%	Senior
63%	Young Adult
38%	Children
38%	Teen

Client Focus

88%	Men
75%	Women
63%	Jewish
63%	Military / Veterans
63%	Persons with Disabilities

Dissociative Disorders therapists in New Bedford, MA

Dawn McCarthy

Julien Moe

Laura G. Kogan

Sam Naimi

MindOverHealing Therapies