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Introducing Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy to Clients
How Quieting the Storm Within Simplifies the Process
IFS therapy expert J. Ashley T. Booth, LCSW, discusses how her new book, Quieting the Storm Within, simplifies the process of explaining IFS therapy to clients.
What Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy Brings to Parenting
By highlighting the core principles of IFS, Frank Anderson emphasizes how healing a parent’s emotional wounds can foster a more empathetic, resilient, and growth-oriented environment for both parent and child.
Break Through Resistance and Unlock Healing with This Transformative IFS Technique
Free IFS Workbook and Case Illustration
Personify and engage with the different aspects of your client's inner world with this FREE IFS workbook and case illustration. It will serve you as a guide to help release your clients from the pain of trauma, substance abuse, depression, and so much more.
Ask the Expert: Q&A with Colleen West, LMFT
Interview with IFS Flip Chart author Colleen West, LMFT
Colleen West, LMFT, shares her most frequently asked questions for IFS therapy, insight into her IFS Flip Chart and more.
IFS for Addictions: Creating a Context for Collaboration and Hope
Develop and enhance the therapeutic experience with these FREE worksheets
The importance of a first session is that it leads to a second session, which is why creating a safe, collaborative context is key. Use the free exercises provided here to help you empathize with the fear and reluctance clients often feel when working through addictive or problematic behaviors.
Learning to Transcend Trauma
Dr. Frank Anderson introduces his newest book
Frank Anderson sits down to talk about the culmination of his career and how it manifested into his newest book, Transcending Trauma: Healing Complex PTSD with Internal Family Systems.
The IFS 6Fs: Simple Steps to Helping Protective Parts Differentiate from the Self
Dr. Frank Anderson, lead trainer at the IFS Institute, shares a simple process that helps your clients gain clarity so they can begin the healing process
Help your clients gain clarity so they can begin the healing process with this simple 6-step process from Dr. Frank Anderson, lead trainer at the IFS Institute.
6 Step IFS Process to Jumpstart Healing
Plus a FREE IFS worksheet!
Frank Anderson - Use this simple exercise from the evidence-based Internal Family Systems model to help your clients understand and work with their internal parts — so they can begin the deep healing process that traumatic wounds require.
Dr. Richard Schwartz: Wake Up Calls and Trail Heads
How COVID-19 is affecting our parts.
Dr. Richard Schwartz, founder of IFS, speaks on how COVID-19 is a triggering situation that has an array of effects on all of our parts and how this is a wakeup call not just for us personally, but also for the planet, countries, and corporations.
All Parts are Welcome
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Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS) provides a revolutionary treatment plan for PTSD, anxiety, depression, substance abuse, eating disorders and more. Using a non-pathologizing, accelerated approach — rooted in neuroscience — IFS applies inner resources and self-compassion for healing emotional wounding at its core. Plus check out this FREE resource!