Risk Assessment with Dissociative Identities:
Practical Skills for Psychologists
Are you ready to build clarity, confidence and competence in risk assessment with your clients with dissociative identities?
Risk assessment can feel especially complex when working with clients with dissociative identities. Standard tools often miss the nuance of internal relationships, competing needs, part-specific intentions, and the way risk can shift within and between parts of the system. Many clinicians describe uncertainty about what to ask, how to frame questions sensitively, and how to document risk in a way that is accurate, ethical and affirming.
This workshop is designed to bridge that gap. We’ll look at what risk really means in the context of dissociation, how to map and understand risk across different parts, and how to approach assessment in a way that is safe, respectful and aligned with best practice.
Through clear frameworks, practical language examples, and guided reflection, you’ll learn how to adapt your existing risk assessment process so that it genuinely captures the client’s experience. You’ll leave with tools you can use immediately — not a list of theoretical concepts, but practical approaches you can apply in your next session.
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The next session is:
Friday - March 13th, 2026
From 5:30pm via Zoom
What You’ll Get:
Practical strategies for adapting standard risk assessment tools,
so they reflect the structure and needs of plural systems.
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Ways to ask about risk that are collaborative, affirming and clinically effective,
including examples of phrases, pacing and trauma-informed scaffolding.
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Skills for recognising how risk may differ across parts of self,
and how to document it clearly and ethically in your notes and treatment planning.
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A practical, plural-aware framework,
that integrates risk assessment into ongoing stabilisation work, rather than treating it as a crisis-only process.
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Access to the recording of the session,
valid for 6 months.
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Over $800 worth of value,
only $179.00.
About Joh
Johanna Knyn is a psychologist, author and educator with extensive experience working with complex trauma and dissociation. She has spent years supporting clients who live with dissociative identities, and she brings a grounded, evidence-informed and neurodiversity-affirming approach to both therapy and professional education.
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Joh teaches clinicians how to work with dissociative identities in ways that are safe, paced and sustainable — always emphasising collaboration with clients and recognising lived experience as a vital form of expertise. She regularly delivers training for professional bodies, like the APS, government services and universities, and her teaching style is known for being clear, steady and deeply person-centred. Her focus is always on helping clinicians feel confident, supported and well-resourced when working with complexity.
