A Meeting of My Minds: An Internal Inquiry

Dr. Athena Phillips is a clinician, educator, and innovator dedicated to supporting survivors of Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), OSDD, and complex trauma. With decades of specialized experience, she has created workshops, coaching curricula, and supportive interventions for individuals, while also training therapists and mental health professionals worldwide.

As the founder of the Integrative Trauma Treatment Center (est. 2012), Athena has built a space devoted to trauma recovery and the conditions that surround it. She approaches structural dissociation not as a flaw, but as a brilliant adaptation to layered trauma—one that deserves respect, care, and curiosity. She has also authored a trauma coach curriculum designed to expand the mental health workforce worldwide. She has presented on the topic of dissociation at The Trauma Congress in Rome, Italy (2023) and other platforms such as the International Study for Trauma and Dissociation conference in 2013.

Athena’s work is rooted in the belief that every part holds wisdom, resilience, and inherent goodness. She emphasizes strength, capacity, and safety, guiding survivors and their systems toward healing at a pace that honors their needs.
Her passion is clear: to help survivors and their systems build relational skills, deepen self-understanding, and navigate recovery with compassion, creativity, and evidence-informed practices. She is also passionate about the importance of decreasing the amount of time and cost dedicated to treatment through innovation and increased access to specialized supplemental support.

Through a blend of psychoeducation, creative exercises, and reflective prompts, you’ll explore your system’s parts, their needs, and how they fit together.

Skills Checklist

1. Psychoeducation:
   Learn about different types of parts—their needs, roles, and purposes—so you can meet each one with understanding.
2. Awareness + The Tangled Tale of Time
   Discover how your parts experience time differently, and why this matters for healing. Includes the Many Masks of Me Worksheet to explore the roles you take on in different moments.
3. Mapping
   Create visual maps of your internal system to better understand relationships, patterns, and points of conflict or connection.
4. Infrastructure
   Build the “infrastructure” your system needs to communicate, collaborate, and feel safer together.