Internal Family Systems Therapy

Internal Family Systems Therapy: Supervision and Consultation showcases the skills of Richard C. Schwartz and other leading IFS consultants and supervisors. Using unique case material, models, and diagrams, each contributor illustrates IFS techniques that assist clinicians in unblending and accessing Self-energy and Self-leadership. The book features examples of clinical work with issues such as bias, faith, sexuality, and sexual hurts. Individual chapters focus on therapist groups, such as Black Therapists Rock, and on work with specific populations, including children and their caregivers, veterans, eating disordered clients, therapists with serious illnesses, and couples. This thought-provoking book offers an opportunity for readers to reflect on their own supervision and consultation (both the giving and receiving of it). It explores what is possible and preferable at different stages of development when using the IFS model.

Emma E. Redfern is a certified IFS therapist and approved IFS clinical consultant. She specializes in supervising those who are transitioning to becoming IFS therapists and offers workshops on IFS supervision.

Introduction MARTHA SWEEZY 1 An Interview with Richard C. Schwartz RICHARD C. SCHWARTZ AND EMMA E. REDFERN 2 A Model of IFS-Informed Supervision and Consultation: Unblending from Struggle into Self-Led Clarity DAN REED AND RAY WOOTEN 3 Facilitating Flow: Developing a Framework for Integrating IFS and Supervision in Private Practice in the UK LIZ MARTINS 4 Parts Detecting Across Multiple Systems: The Application of IFS in Consultation to Therapists of Children and Adolescents PAMELA K. KRAUSE 5 Consultation for the IFIO Therapist ANN E. DROUILHET 6 Creating Access to IFS Training and Consultation for BIPOC Therapists: Black Therapists Rock Leads the Way TAMALA FLOYD 7 Trusting Self to Heal: Removing Constraints to Therapists' Self-Energy Transforms Their Treatment of Eating Disordered Clients JEANNE CATANZARO 8 Making the Unconscious Conscious in IFS Consultation of Sexual Abuse, Sexual Offending, and Sexual Compulsivity Cases NANCY WONDER 9 Bias: How IFS Consultation Can Increase Awareness and Reduce Harm KATE LINGREN 10 Keeping the Faith with IFS: Religious and Spiritual Parts of an Internal System MARY STEEGE 11 Serving Those Who Served: Providing IFS-Informed Supervision and Consultation to Clinicians Treating Military Veterans SHARON COOPER AND KIMBERLY COREY 12 Consultation with Therapists Who Have a Serious Illness ROBERTA RACHEL OMIN 13 IFS Consultation: Fostering the Self-Led Therapist FRAN BOOTH 14 In Search of Self 209 EMMA E. REDFERN Glossary Appendix: Methods of Unblending DAN REED AND RAY WOOTEN