An afterthought -- again without commenting upon your particular case.

Sometimes when the idea of "safe place" or "safety" itself makes things worse it is because a perpetrator identified a place as safe, or said s/he would protect or keep a child safe --- and then betrayed that trust.

When that is part of the history, the various parts of the client need to be individual and sometimes repeatedly oriented to the present facts -- like, its 2007 now, the client is now 32 years old, and the client is in Seattle, 1700 miles from where the perpetrator, now dead, is buried. Or whatever the facts are.

It sounds funny, but lots and lots of people, including those not having DID, have parts of themselves that think the abuse is happening now. Orienting to the present circumstances with individual parts can really help the client to distinguish that times HAVE changed and one is now SAFE.

If the client isn't safe in present time, that should be the first order of business.