Intimacy from the Inside Out
Beth Rogerson talks to couples therapist and Internal Family Systems (IFS) trainer Toni Herbine-Blank about how couples can create lasting intimacy in a relationship.
Exploring your Own System
Intended to make IFS accessible to people without access to a therapist, this post contains links to a video, handout and facebook page. Please consider sharing and reposting the content.
The Neurobiology of Complex Trauma
Dr. Stephen Green’s PowerPoint presentation pulls together the fields of interpersonal neurobiology and complex trauma to illuminate what is happening neurologically through IFS interventions. It is the most viewed post on this site.
Discovering and Healing the Internal World of the child
This handout by Janet Mullen describes working with children and includes: Assessment, Phases of IFS, Addressing the fears of childrens’ managers , helping to identify and externalise parts, helping children to differentiate and access Self, teaching polarities and assisting unburdening.
Basic Principles of Trauma Treatment for the IFS Therapist
Suzanne Hoffman outlines the principles that support the goal of trauma work: “to help people get to the place where they are able to say, “It happened, it happened to me, and it’s over”, to mourn their losses and let go – and thus to be able to live with more safety, freedom, and hope in the present and the future.”
Technique, protocols, opinions – Mike Elkin
Anyone who knows Mike knows that he has all of the above. Here are some he has committed to paper: Despair protocol, Smoking cessation and IFS, Phobia protocol, Three techniques for helping Difficult Parts to unblend, and Opinions about Couples Work.
Common Therapist's Parts
This handout formed the basis for a group discussion hosted by Judi Addleston about therapist’s parts
Treating Trauma After Dialectical Behavioral Therapy
First published in the Journal of Psychotherapy Integration, Martha Sweezy “discusses coupling dialectical behavioral therapy… with internal family systems,a therapy that is both clinically promising and compatible with dialectical behavioral therapy, as a Stage 2 therapy for trauma patients who avoid other modes of treatment.” (From the Abstract)
What does the IFS therapist need to know about Dissociation?
Suzanne Hoffman takes us through 7 helpful points to consider when working with dissociation.
The Youniverse
David Cantor has developed An innovative, Session-Changing Visual Communication Tool that helps therapists and clients, parents and children, cross the interpersonal communication bridge together.