Inside Out: Understanding and Navigating Dissociative Identity Disorder
with Dr. Athena Phillips
A compassionate, practical roadmap for survivors, loved ones, and professionals.Â
Living with dissociation can feel like navigating a shifting inner landscape - full of strengths, challenges, and mysteries. Whether you’re a survivor, a therapist, or a loved one, this curriculum offers a structured, compassionate pathway to understanding, skill-building, and connection.
Each course is selves-paced, creatively designed, and grounded in trauma-informed principles. You can take them individually or as a complete series.
Why This Curriculum Works
Self-Paced
Learn on your own timeline, without pressure
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Creative & Reflective
Worksheets, mapping tools, and journaling prompts to engage with your inner worldÂ
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For Survivors + Therapists
Equally useful for personal growth while offering structure to professionals working with dissociation
Safe & Trauma-Informed
Designed to empower without overwhelming
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Transformative Courses at Your Own Pace
Each course is self-paced, creatively designed, and grounded in trauma-informed principles.
Take one, or complete the full series.
COURSE ONE
Many Voices, One Journey: An Educational Course for Survivors
Understand the foundations of structural dissociation and how healing works.
- What structural dissociation is, how it develops, and how it’s maintained
- How therapy and support can help
- Skills checklist to track learning and progress
COURSEÂ TWO
Soothing the Storm - Trauma Symptom Management for Dissociative Systems
Learn to recognize, understand, and manage post-trauma symptoms.
- Description of symptoms
- The “why” behind the “what”: Understanding the function of symptoms
- Strategies for managing post-trauma symptoms within a dissociative system
- Selves Care: supporting all parts of yourself with compassion
COURSE THREE
A Meeting of My Minds - An Internal Inquiry
Get to know your system and its parts with curiosity and respect.
- Psychoeducation: types of parts, their needs, roles, and purposes
- Awareness + The Tangled Tale of Time, including The Many Masks of Me worksheet
- Mapping your system to see patterns and relationships
- Infrastructure: building communication and collaboration inside
COURSEÂ FOUR
Mending the Mosaic - Cultivating Internal Cohesion
(also called Synchronizing the Orchestra). Bring your system into greater harmony without losing individuality.
- Checking in + creating regular contained communication between parts
- Healthy intrapersonal relationships and essential relational ingredients
- Building trust + navigating internal resentment
- Finding common ground through values mapping and The Space Between exercise
COURSE FIVE
Parts in Partnership - Relational Skills for DID Systems and Their Families
Support healthy, sustainable relationships between survivors and loved ones.
For Caregivers:
- Understanding dissociation
- How relationships shape dissociation and healing
- Relating with all parts of the system respectfully and safely
- Protecting caregiver longevity through self-care and healthy boundaries
Learning Options
Individual course
$49
Course + Coaching
$675
A la carte Coaching
$135
About Dr. Athena PhillipsÂ
Dr. Phillips has worked in social services for over 33 years, with the past 17 focused on trauma, dissociation, and complex mental health. She is the founder of Integrative Trauma Treatment Center (ITTC)in Portland, Oregon—an outpatient clinic specializing in trauma-informed care. Her approach is rooted in her early work with developmentally disabled children and adults, where she learned to lead with curiosity, respect, and the belief in every person’s inherent strength.
Athena holds a bachelors and master’s degree in social work and a doctorate in Psychology. She’s certified in EMDR, Critical Incident Stress Debriefing, and has completed Level I & II of Internal Family Systems training.
