Transitioning to Internal Family Systems Therapy

Transitioning to Internal Family Systems Therapy is a guide to resolving the common areas of confusion and stuckness that professionals often experience when facilitating the transformational potential of the IFS model. Real-life clinical and autobiographical material is used throughout from the author's supervision practice, together with insights from IFS developer Richard C. Schwartz and other lead trainers and professionals. With the use of reflective and practical exercises, therapists and practitioners (those without a foundational therapy training) are encouraged to get to know and attend to their own inner family of parts, especially those who may be struggling to embrace the new modality. Reflective statements by professionals on their own journeys of transition feature as a unique element of the book. Endnotes provide the reader with additional information and direct them to key sources of information on IFS.

Emma E. Redfern is a certified IFS therapist, approved IFS clinical supervisor/ consultant, and an experienced IFS Institute program assistant. Working online in private practice in the southwest of England, she is a senior BACP- accredited psychotherapist and supervisor. Emma has experience offering workshops (including on IFS and supervision) and has had several articles published in professional journals. She is the editor of Internal Family Systems Therapy: Supervision and Consultation, also published by Routledge.

Lit of Support Materials, Exercises, Figures and Tables Foreword Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Barriers to Transitioning: Not Buying into Self, Self-Leadership, and the IFS Model 1. Self-Leadership is the Gamechanger in IFS 2. Giving Yourself and IFS Some Time Part II: Barrier to Transitioning: Not Grasping Key IFS Concepts and Practices 3. Understanding the Why, the What, and the When of the IFS Model 4. Learning How to Contract with Multiplicity in Mind 5. Differentiating Between Key IFS Concepts and Practices Part III: Barriers to Transitioning: Fear, Loss, and Frustration 6. Embracing Direct Access and Freeing Self to Lead 7. Being with Triggering Parts and Helping Them Be With You 8. Working with Self-Like Parts and Clients with "No Self-Energy" Part IV: Barriers to Transitioning: Professional Isolation and Loneliness 9. Being in IFS Supervision 10. Having IFS Therapy and Experiencing the Laws of Inner Physics 11. In Others' Words References Appendix Index